Swimming Collection (page 14)

Mercedes Gleitze hauled from water on Gibraltar swim
Mercedes Gleitze, the British long distance open water swimmer, is hauled out of the water into a boat on her attempt to swim the Straits of Gibraltar from Tangier to Gibraltar. Date: 1927

Indian Mound Park, Hannibal, Missouri, USA
View of Indian Mound Park, Hannibal, Missouri, USA, with people in an outdoor swimming pool. Date: circa 1925

Bottlenose dolphin - with party hat & streamers (Tursiops truncatus). Digitally manipulated image

A Reticulated Python swims from a small freshwater-stream into a sea, to move between parts of island shore (Python reticulatus )

Bottlenose dolphins - group playing underwater (Tursiops truncatus). Distribution: Worldwide except polar regions

Bottlenose dolphin - blowing air bubbles underwater (Tursiops truncatus). Distribution: Worldwide except polar regions. Complex play / creative behaviour

Bottlenose Dolphins - three underwater (Tursiops truncatus). Distribution: Worldwide except polar regions

Bottlenose Dolphin - two, smiling (Tursiops truncatus)

Great Indian / One-horned RHINOCEROS / rhino - Close up of head in water, side on. (Rhinoceros unicornis). Chitwan National Park, Nepal

More Entanglements by Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1 cartoon
Bathing at Casse Les Bains is going to be rotten again this year. Two stereotypically grouchy looking Germans in bathing costumes do their best to enjoy a seaside holiday despite the barbed wire

Children in swimwear 1909
Five children at various ages, posing for the camera in St Malo in France. 1909

Suffragettes Swimming Hot Air Balloon Muriel Matters
A cartoon illustration by Alfred Chantrey Courbold (1852-1920) of suffragettes swimming towards a flotilla of toy boats. Behind them are large Votes for Women banners whilst pro-suffrage leaflets

The Sea Hath Pearls by Claude Shepperson
Bathing scene showing women in brightly coloured swimming costumes getting ready for a dip in the sea. Date: 1918

Off the Coast of Scotland by William Heath Robinson
The German Periscoper: Ach, Himmel! Dot most be der peautiful Ben Nevis of vich ve ave eard so mooch. A German submarine mistakes the prominent nose of a bather for the tip of Ben Nevis while sailing

Clara Bow in her swimming pool, 1928
Clara Bow (1905 - 1965), American actress film star and the girl, famously, with It. pictured in the bathing pool of her Hollywood home. Date: 1928

Yasuji Miyazaki, 1932 Olympic Games
Japanese swimming champion and Olympic gold medallist, 15 year old Yasuji Miyazaki, pictured at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympic Games were he won a gold medal in the 100 metres freestyle

Bonzo tries to swim the channel by George Studdy
Bonzo tries to swim the channel, much to the amusement of the Bonzolines. George Ernest Studdy (1878-1948), was the creator of Bonzo

Westgate-On-Sea
A happy family group captured in time on the beach at Westgate-on-Sea, Kent, England. Date: 1923

Surfing Girls
Lovely young women splashing around in the surf in their swimming costumes and bathing caps. Date: 1930s

Guildford Lido 1930S
The fantastic lido and fountain at Guildford, Surrey, England. Date: 1930s

A Sun Worshipper
A young sun worshipper raises his hands to the sun as he sunbathes in the middle of a field. Date: early 1930s

Swimming a Witch
The art of Swimming a witch. The lady floating is the witch, who by dint of her buoyancy has failed the test. At the bottom right-hand corner you can see the feet of the woman who passed the test but

Kokine Swimming Club - Rangoon - within walking distance of Mount Pleasant Date: 1951

Sea-birds by Wilmot Lunt
A lone, young woman in a white swimming costume and red bathing cap, sits on the beach and gazes at the seagulls flying above. Date: 1927

The Tatler front cover, May 1962 - Summer fashion issue
Front cover of The Tatlers summer fashion issue for 1962 featuring a photograph of a girl wearing a jazzy swimsuit standing in a boat at Cala Piccola in Italy

Children at Kingsbury Open Air Baths 1948
Swarms of children having fun in the sun at Kingsbury Open Air Baths in Harrow. Opened in 1939, it was 165 x 75 feet with a depth of 3ft 6ins to 6ft 6ins

Kenneth Swain, Yorkshire County swimmer
KENNETH E SWAIN Yorkshire County swimmer, in costume, with large shield (swimming trophy). Date: September 1912

French seaside bathing scene
A seaside bathing scene somewhere on the French coast, with children having fun in the sea. Bathing huts can be seen on the beach in the background. Date: 1906

Salford Union Cottage Homes at Culcheth, Cheshire
Swimming baths (right) and workshop buildings (left) at the Salford Union cottage homes at Culcheth in Cheshire. Some girls in their school uniforms walk across the scene

Family running across sand dunes
A family of four -- mother, father and two children -- running happily across the sand dunes on a beach in Cornwall

Chase Farm Schools, Enfield, Middlesex
The main building of the Chase Farm Schools in Enfield, Middlesex, opened in 1886 by the Edmonton Union to house pauper children away from the workhouse

Boys Club, swimming, 1924
Boys from a Boys Club sit after their swim by the edge of a swimming pool

Fat Lady Diving / 1820
A large lady diving naked into the sea from a bathing machine on the beach

Floating swimming bath in the Seine, Paris, France
View inside Les Bains Deligny, a floating swimming bath in the River Seine at Paris, France

Monte Mar (Montemar), Valparaiso, Chile, South America
Monte Mar (Montemar), a bathing cove near Valparaiso, Chile, South America. Date: circa 1908

Little girl at the seaside on a comic postcard -- Hurry up, Auntie, theres another big wave coming! Date: circa 1900s

The Seaside Girl. Date: circa 1910s

Three young women bathing in the sea, Southwold, Suffolk
Three young women bathing in the sea at Southwold, Suffolk. They are N Cattley, Lucy Auerbach and M Cattley. Date: 1911

Three people bathing at Scarborough, North Yorkshire
Young woman (Lucy Auerbach) and her two brothers (Albert and Harold) bathing in the sea at Scarborough, North Yorkshire, with ships on the horizon. Date: 1904

William Henry Beckwith, English swimmer
William Henry Beckwith (1857-1892), English award-winning swimmer who often performed at the Royal Aquarium in Tothill Street, London. late 19th century

Young man on the beach, Brighton, Sussex
Young man (Albert Auerbach) on holiday on the beach at Brighton, Sussex, with the pier behind him, August 1915. Date: 1915

The Belle-Buoy by Douglas Wales
Three 1920s bathing belles take a rest on a floating buoy out at sea. Date: 1929

Bathing dresses 1913
Page of pre World War One women wearing bathing-dresses with embroidary and lace, the truth be told that they are better out of the water than in! 1913

John Smedley knitted swimsuits
Advertisement for John Smedley knitted swimwear. Good quality but no doubt rather itchy after a dip. 1938

Family playing cricket on the beach, Cornwall
A family of four -- mother, father and two children -- playing cricket on the beach in Cornwall. Date: 1970

Family holding hands on sand dunes
A family of four -- mother, father and two children -- holding hands on the sand dunes on a beach in Cornwall. Date: 1970

Family of four holding hands on a beach, West Country. Date: circa 1970s

Diving
Natation (Plongeons). Page from Larousse Encyclopedia with photographs demonstrating a variety of dives. Date: 1930

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