Towels Collection

Cocktail Girls 1950S 3 / 4
Two smiling, leggy young models enjoy a drink together at a cocktail bar. A towels is slunged nonchalantly over a bar stool. I hope they don t intend to drink & swim!

The Bath Parade by Muriel Dawson
Three children dressedin pyjamas, dressing gowns and slippers march in a procession towards the bathroom armed with towels and soap

Sport / Swimming / Pools
Swimming and relaxing at the swimming pool on board the luxury German cruise liner " The Bremen"

Vichy, France - Bathroom
Vichy, France - Taking the healing waters - here the patient is wrapped up and then submerged within a superb enamel bath. Note the spectacular art nouveau tiling! Date: early 1910s

Ottoman Empire Views (2 / 5)
Cabinet de Toilet in an Arab Bath house

British Seaside Scene - Two woemn dry off after dip in sea
Two women (the one of the left would win a Princess Margaret lookalike Competition) dry off after a dip in the sea. Possible Daughter (left) and Mother (right)

A smiling young woman in a headscarf and apron washing up or preparing food in a kitchen or scullery. Tea towels hang from the airer above, assorted ladles and pans are close to hand

Modern American Bathroom. 1926

Advert, Cannon Towels -- absorb quickly, wear well, cost less. 1926

Turkish bath, cooling room 1900
The height of luxury a turkish bath, with men only, in the cooling room at Jermyn Street, London. Date: 1900

Advert, Hay and Robertson, Dunfermline, Scotland
Advert for Hay and Robertson, Linen and Cotton Manufacturers, St Margarets Works, Dunfermline, Scotland. 1905

Six Little Camping Girls Going Down to Bathe, Wallis Mills
Six girls on a camping trip make a jolly sight as they skip down to the beach in colourful pyjamas to bathe. Date: 1929

NATIVITY PLAY C1970S
A school Nativity Play. Costumes have been created from nightshirts, tea towels, tinsel & foil. Date: circa 1970s

Extended British Family Group on the Beach - Bournemouth, Dorset. Date: circa 1930

Hastings, East Sussex - 3 brave lady swimmers on a cold day
Hastings, East Sussex - Three brave lady swimmers on a cold day! Date: circa 1920s

Information card, Hotel de Normandie
Information card for the Hotel de Normandie, which may or may not be in Normandy, northern France. Date: early 20th century

Bathing-time by Rene Vincent
Art deco illustration depicting bathers with billowing towels and cloaks gathered around a car at the beach. The caption reads: Modern summer holiday-makers seen through an artists eyes

Miners racing whippets, Illustrated London News front cover
Front cover of the Illustrated London News showing coal miners, on strike, partaking in one of their favourite pastimes, whippet racing

Advert for Wrights Coal Tar Soap WW1
An advertisement for Wrights Coal Tar Soap with a British soldier holding up a towel in the hope that some nice person will send him a box of Wrights Coal Tar Soap. Date: 1915

Paignton, Devon - Group of young folk at the seaside
Paignton, Devon - " Myself and Eadie at the front, Doris, Ernie and Arthur at the back" - superb shot showing the party, each in their raincoats

Luxeuil-les-Bains, France
Luxeuil-les-Bains - a commune in the Haute-Saone department in the region of Franche-Comte in eastern France. The Flower Baths - The Thermal Spa Establishment. Date: circa 1906

Advert for Beach Mats
Black and white illustrated advertisments for fashionable Beach Mats, on sale at Don, 75 Davies Street, London. 1930

Advert for Southalls sanitary towels 1898
Sanitary Towels for Ladies from home or on tour, made entirely of white absorbent wool. 1898

Lord and Lady Weymouth at Antibes
Viscount Weymouth, only son and heir of the Marquess of Bath, pictured on honeymoon at Cap d Antibes on the French Riviera with his new wife, the former Hon. Daphne Vivian

Toilet / Sanitary Towels
An elegant advertisement for intimate items for ladies. Date: 1917

Bathing party 1927
A group of young men and women stand around their car in flamboyant swimwear. Date: 1927

Family Shower / Leech
A family prepare to partake of a shower. The servants fill up the shower head with hot water as the family members don conical hats and towels - some require encouragement! Date: 1850

Bathroom design, Davis, Bennett & Co, sanitary and heating work -- Proposed Bathroom at Melchet Court. 1913

Holidaymakers on the harbour beach, St Ives, Cornwall
Holidaymakers relaxing on the harbour beach, St Ives, Cornwall. Date: 1960s

People having a drink on a sandy beach. Date: circa 1950s

People having a picnic on a pebbly beach
Aerial view of people having a picnic on a pebbly beach. Date: circa 1950s

Interior of a swimming school, Paris.. Handcolored aquatint engraving after an illustration credited to Victor Auver from A Tour through Paris, William Sams, London, 1825

Costume of St Valery en Caux The bonnet is
Costume of St. Valery en Caux. The bonnet is covered with blue silk and black velvet.. Handcolored fashion plate illustration from Louis-Marie Lantes Costumes des femmes du Pays de Caux, 1827/1885

Man out walking with backpack
A man out walking with a backpack and various other items

Wyandotte Sanitary Cleaner and Cleanser - for sale by all Grocers Date: 1910

Group of people on Westminster Beach, London
A man and woman with three children and an inflatable dolphin on " Westminster Beach", an area of sand in a London park

Good Housekeeping front cover, January 1933
Front cover of Good Housekeeping magazine featuring a little girl carefully doing the washing up

Georgia - Tbilisi - Turkish Bath
Removing a vast lump of soapy suds from a bather in a Turkish Bath at Tbilisi, the capital (and largest) city in Georgia - formerly known as Tiflis

Izmir, Turkey - The Turkish Baths
A fine view of the ornate domes of the Turkish Baths at Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey

The Royal Baths - Harrogate, Yorkshire (1 / 2)
The Royal Baths - Harrogate, Yorkshire (1/2) - The Hot Air treatment (Greville System). A remarkable collection of health paraphenalia!

Hiking Sanitary Towels
Advert for Southalls compressed sanitary towels, each one packed with two safety pins and made especially for hikers! Talk about cashing in!

Emperor Visits - 2
Napoleon leaves Franz-Joseph, emperor of Austria, at the Elysee palace after making sure hes properly settled in with clean towels and everything

The River Gannel
Two boys walk back from the beach with their towels, by the shores of the River Gannel, near Newquay, Cornwall

Ragged Laundry
Rather ragged towels and washing, hanging out to dry on a clothes line which stretches across a cobbled street running between back to back London slums

Swimwear / Graphic / 1883
Swimwear worn at a ladies swimming competiton include two-piece costumes with knickerbockers or trousers & a blouse with sailor collar or with gathers & a Swiss belt

Market Stall 1950S
A married couple on a market stall, selling bedspreads, towels, throws, etc

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