Swimming Collection (page 29)

Girl in studio pose in swimwear
Girl in a rather splendid swimming costume Date: circa 1910s

General Birdwood swimming
British General William Birdwood (1865 - 1951) swimming at Anzac Cove where he had led a landing of Australian and New Zealand Army Corps troops as part of the amphibious invasion of the Gallipoli

The Olympic Swimming Pool, 1948 London Olympic Games
The Borough Swimming Pool at Aldershot viewed from the air, ready for the XIVth Olympiad in London, 1948. Date: 1948

Churchill on holiday at Dieppe, 1911
Winston Churchill(1874 -1965), then the Home Secretary, snapped on his holidays at Dieppe in France. Churchill emerges from the sea

Seychelles Scouts Bathing
The scouts have two sea baths a day. The Scoutmaster in the centre. August Camp, Seychelles. circa 1931

Seychelles Boy Scouts Bathing

Valparaiso, Chile - The Bathing Beach Date: circa 1930

Bathing Belle posing on rocks with a large fishing net. Date: circa 1920s

Granpop Tests the Swimming Pool Water by Lawson Wood
Humorous illustration by Lawson Wood depicting his creation Granpop, an orang-utan, testing a teacup of water before his animal friends launch themselves from a makeshift springboard

Swimming lesson

Four Men Swimming
Four young men enjoy a swim in the sea. Date: 1950s

Eastbourne Lifeguards
A team of Lifeguards in action on the beach at Eastbourne, Sussex, England, showing the safety equipment used to reel in the guards themselves during a rescue. Date: 1960s

Webb Near Calais (Iln)
Captain Webb just before reaching Calais, where he becomes the first person to swim the English Channel Date: 24 August 1875

Boy Charlton, Australian Olympic swimmer
The Australian freestyle swimmer Andrew Murray Charlton (1907-1975), nicknamed Boy Charlton. He won a gold medal in the 1500 metres freestyle event at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris

14 year old swimming champion with six trophies
A 14-year-old swimming champion poses with the six trophies he has won. (1 of 2) Date: 1924

Children / Seaside / Girl
A little girl in a red one- piece swimming costume on the beach sends Love to Auntie from Blackpool. Date: circa 1910

Seawater bathing pool, South Bay, Scarborough, Yorkshire
View of the Seawater Bathing Pool in the South Bay at Scarborough, North Yorkshire. Date: 1920s

Wildgoose family of swimmers
A family of swimmers, all in their swimming costumes: T Wildgoose, ex-1000 yards champion, with Emma (3), Alice (15 months) and Dick (4). Date: 1910s

Ethel Shipley, long distance champion swimmer
Miss Ethel Shipley, Long Distance Lady Champion swimmer, and First Lady Home in the " Weekly Dispatch" swim through London (15 miles). Date: 1910s

Seaside bathers after their dip in the sea
Two friends at the seaside, who have just been enjoying a bathe in the sea. Date: 1930s

Bristol Dolphin Swimming Club with two trophies
Members and management of the Bristol Dolphin Swimming Club, champions in the 1912 season, with two trophies. Date: 1912

Wagenseils Lifebelt
Johann Christof Wagenseils wasser-schild (life-shield) aims to keep you, and your loved ones, from a watery grave; it was tested on the Danube in Vienna. Date: 1691

Dalay Dives Off Bridge
Twenty-year-old workman Auguste Dalay dives from the Rouen transporter bridge - brave or foolhardy? Date: 1901

Fourteen year old swimming champion with trophies
A 14-year-old swimming champion with the six trophies he has won. (2 of 2) Date: 1924

Bathing Beauties 1914

Jack Hatfield, British Olympic swimming champion
Jack Hatfield (John Gatenby " Jack" Hatfield, 1893-1965), British Olympic swimming champion, seen here at the time of the Stockholm Olympics in 1912

Leaping Athlete
A jumping German athlete striking a pose in mid air. Date: early 1930s

The freak-merchants; or the bright young people 1929
Young care free late1920s enjoying themselves at different parties. 1929

Bathing machines been rolled into the sea
Women pulling their bathing machine into the sea 1876

Far Rockaway, Long Island
Far Rockaway, L.I. People in bathing suits standing in the surf at Far Rockaway. - Far Rockaway (New York, N.Y.) | Queens (New York, N.Y.) | New York (N.Y.)

Southampton, Long Island
Southampton L.I. Young men and women playing and swimming in the surf at the beach at Southampton, L.I

Bath Beach, Long Island
Miss Jackson, Bath Beach L.I. People paddling and bathing at the seaside in bathing suits

Midland Beach, Staten Island, New York
Bathing, Midland Beach. Fully dressed people standing on beach with swimmers visible in background. - Midland Beach (New York, N.Y.) | Staten Island (New York, N.Y.) | New York (N.Y.)

Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, New York
Bathing, Manhattan Beach. Children and adults standing at edge of beach and boardwalk with beach in background. - Manhattan Beach (New York, N.Y.)

Narragansett, Rhode Island
Bathing, Narragansett Pier. People in bathing suits playing in surf

Coney Island Beach
Coney Island. People paddling and bathing at the seaside in bathing suits

Asbury Park, New Jersey
Bathing, Asbury Park. People paddling and bathing at the seaside in bathing suits

Ducks in Lindisfarne
Eider and Long-tailed ducks swimming just off Holy Island on the Northumberland coast

Shenley Fields Cottage Homes, Kings Norton, Worcester
View of the village street at Shenley Fields Cottage Homes, established in the 1880s by the Kings Norton Union to house pauper children away from the workhouse

A Line Study in Everyones Sketch Book by Howard Elcock
An artists fantasy - a shapely woman in a skimpy bathing costume decorated with a riotous pattern uses a pier as a catwalk as she is sketched by numerous identikit artists

Then - And Now by Leslie Marchant
Four cartoons comparing how a young Victorian woman would be watched while sea bathing (by several stout and stern chaperones) to the modern girl of 1925, who breezes to the beach on her motorcycle

Swimming cartoon
Cartoon of an attractive young woman in a bikini about to dive into a swimming pool while an RAF trainee cadet during World War Two looks on admiringly

Double page spread in a diary for 13-18 June
A double page spread in a young persons diary for 13-18 June. Each day is given a small illustration, relating either to the season, or to the anniversary of an historical event

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