Stunt Collection (page 3)

Eddie Merton, superstitious stuntman, who always slept in a coffin on the night before a dangerous stunt. Seen here with a suitcase, helping to carry the coffin into his hotel. Date: 1971

Destruction Squad, flying car in quarry
Destruction Squad, flying car in a quarry. Joe Weston Webb fitted out an old Ford Popular with wings and a tail plane, then persuaded a stunt driver to shoot it over a water-filled quarry in the hope

Boy stuntman on bed of nails
Britains youngest stuntman, 8-year-old Tom Paynton, is encouraged by his father Eric as he practises on a bed of nails in the garden. Date: circa 1960s

Cycle Stunt in USA
Hollywood stuntman Buddie Mason cycles along the cornice of a high-rise building in Los Angeles, California. Date: 1925

Niagara Bridge Stunt
Laurence Donovan drops 200 feet from Niagara Bridge Date: 1886

Synchronised Swimming Wedding causes quite a stir
August 1962, Kinson, Bournemouth. The wedding of Eileen Hart, 22 of New Milton and David King of Coombe Gardens, Bournemouth caused quite a stir (and claims of a publicity stunt)

Niagara Falls at night, with lighting, New York State, USA
Niagara Falls at night, with multicoloured electric lighting using one billion lights, New York State, USA. Date: circa 1915

H鬨ne Dutrieu - Girl Hawk
H鬨 ne Dutrieu - Girl Hawk, Belgium. She was a cycling world champion, stunt cyclist, stunt motorcyclist, automobile racer, stunt driver, pioneer aviator, wartime ambulance driver

Jules Gautier, stunt swimmer, with boat crew
Jules Gautier, the Manacled Swiimmer, with boat crew on the river. Date: 1910

Suffragette In Police Van Womens Parliament. A W.S.P.U publicity stunt ahead of the Womens Parliament at Caxton Hall and the deputation to the Prime Minister Asquith, 24th February 1909

The Push The Rifle Grenade Stunt - German Field Postcard
The Push. The Rifle Grenade Stunt. Drawn on a German Field Postcard (Feldpostkarte). 386202 Acting Sergeant Herbert Gibson, Mm, 1St Northumbrian Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps

Pearl Fay White - American film actress and stunt star
Pearl Fay White (18891938) - American film actress, the " Stunt Queen" of silent films, most notably in The Perils of Pauline (1914). Date: circa 1914

Prohibition Stunt
During the Prohibition era in the U.S.A. drinkers had to go to great lengths to think of new and ingenious ways and places to hide their booze! Date: 1930s

Motorcycle Stunt
A stunt involving a motorcycle driving off rocks above a girl crouching on the beach below! Date: early 1930s

The Stage and Film Actress Pearl White in WW1 Uniform
Pearl Fay White (18891938) - American film actress, the " Stunt Queen" of silent films, most notably in The Perils of Pauline (1914)

French Aviator - Chanteloup
French Aviator - Pierre Chanteloup (1890-1976). Date: circa 1910s

Uruguay - Wing Walker at an Airshow, Montevideo Racetrack
Uruguay - Wing Walker acrobat at an Airshow at the Hipodromo Nacional de Maronas, a horse racing track located in Ituzaingo neighbourhood, Montevideo, Uruguay - circa 1922-23

NFS (London Region) dispatch riders display team, WW2
NFS dispatch riders demonstrate their motorcycle riding skills with a acrobatic display at Regional headquarters, Lambeth SE1

Some stunt for Samuel

Trick Riders of the 16th and 5th British Lancers. Two riders dressed as a criminal and a policeman act out a chase and in so doing leap over a row of orientals holding parasols

Stunt Car over Flames
A stunt car flies through the air over a bonfire of tyres and the crowd, standing in the rain, are loving it! Date: 1960s

Housewives Stunt School
Housewife Teresa Vincent leaps from the first floor of a building onto cardboard boxes and mattresses 20 feet below. It makes a change from washing up, she explained. Date: 1960s

STUNT CARS
Danger men on wheels. Thrills and spills from the Destruction Squad, thats what the crowd, even when its raining, love to see! Date: 1960s

From Plane to Car 1928
JUMPING FROM A PLANE American film actor Reed Howes drops from the wing of a biplane into a car travelling at full speed Date: 1928

Stunt cyclist
Bicyclists (trick), Prof. Fourcher at Manhattan Beach. Trick bicyclist Professor Fourcher practicing in an empty outdoor auditorium at Manhattan Beach, N.Y

John Noakes at Land End, Cornwall
Television Presenter John Noakes with John Mash and a canine friend at Lands End, Cornwall

Around the world in an iron mask
An extraordinary postcard of a man who for a wager of 21, 000 pounds, walked around the world. Harry Bensley alledged to have pushed his perambulator all around the globe wearing this mask

Bobby Leach and his barrel - Niagara Falls
British former stuntman Bobby Leach (1858 - 1926) and his barrel, in which he survived passage over Niagara Falls, Canada, at severe detriment to his future health

Dicing with death
A group out motoring encounter a broken bridge but the daring driver puts his foot on the accelerator and the car jumps the gap

Lunching with lions in Shepherds Bush
An unusual luncheon party which took place at the Imperial International Exhibition in Shepherds Bush (White City). Twenty people in a large cage with four full-grown lions belonging to Bostocks

Richard Sands Air Walking at Drury Lane, 1853
Engraving showing Richard Sands (d.1861), the American acrobat, equestrian and air walker, performing at Drury Lane Theatre, London, March 1853

Seemingly Driverless Car
A seemingly driverless car causes surprise in the streets of Paris (a hidden driver operating the car from the bonnet)

Brodie & Brooklyn Bridge
Scenes from Steve Brodies leap off the Brooklyn Bridge

Andrew Ducrow / Horseman
ANDREW DUCROW Equestrian performer at Astleys Amphitheatre and elsewhere, seen here riding two horses

Fired from a Gun
At the Circus Busch, a human cannonball is seemingly shot from a gun Date: 1905

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