Traditions Collection (page 3)

Village Industries - pottery and parchment making
Page from The Sphere reporting on pottery making in Dorset and the making of parchment in Havant, Hampshire which had specialised in parchment for over 1000 years. 1928

Father Christmas delivering Xmas presents, personalised greetings card from Dorothy Glynn, West Leigh, Eastbourne. Date: 1896

Graphic Christmas Number front cover 1920
Front cover of The Graphic Christmas Number for 1920 featuring a woman in stylised medieval dress carrying a small Christmas tree. Date: 1920

Tribeswoman with headdress, French Congo, Central Africa
Tribeswoman with elaborate headdress, French Congo, Central Africa. Date: 1922

Tribesman playing tattoo, French Congo, Central Africa
Tribesman playing a tattoo on a percussion instrument to welcome a guest, French Congo, Central Africa. Date: 1922

Tribesman with his spear, French Congo, Central Africa. Date: 1922

Christmas at Windsor Castle, roasting beef 1856
Roasting the Royal baron of beef for the Christmas banquet, overseen by the careful superintendence of the roasting cooks, who coax the baron, with sufficient basting

Hindu Customs - three men
Hindu Customs (left to right) - Tadin playing with fire, - Aiganda Pandaron, Tadin with a padlock on his mouth

Hot-cross buns for poor children in the East-end of London
Some 500 children were given a feast of hot-cross buns on Good Friday at the Salmon Lane Mission, Limehouse Fields. Date: 1910

Roasting the baron of beef, Windsor Castle 1887
Roasting the baron of beef, Windsor Castle. The baron of beef was an annual institution at Windsor and was cut from the first prize fat bullock at the Shaw Farm Sale

February the Twenty-Ninth - Perhaps Leap Year Proposal
Following in the tradition that the once in four years 29th February is a chance for women to ask men to marry, one man appears to have a plethora of suitors to choose from. Date: 1912

Local women and girls weaving straw, , Madeira. Date: circa 1900s

Quail catching in Syria 1862
A tradition among Syrian peasants using branches and sheets to encircle terrified quail. 1862

Searching for Hidden Presents on Christmas Day
A household has fun searching for Christmas presents hidden away in various parts of the house on Christmas Day. Date: 1903

Selling mistletoe in streets 1854
Street trader selling mistletoe to passers by in the streets. Date: 1854

Christmas verses 1877
Victorian traditions, decorating the Christmas tree, couple under the mistletoe, wassail and Amen, written by Julia Goddard. Date: 1877

Christmas tree in history by Pauline Baynes
One of four illustrations by Pauline Baynes for The Illustrated London News Christmas number 1958, tracing the four key moments in the history of the Christmas tree

Pulling a Christmas cracker, New Years Eve by Simon Harmon
Two children in party hats pull a Christmas cracker at the dinner table. Date: 1917

Beating the bounds of the Tower of London 1906
Beating the bounds is still carried out in the Tower of London today every three years on Ascension Day. One of Londons oddest traditions

Chritmas pudding 1849
Well to do victorian family with lots of children waiting to be served their Christmas pudding. 1849

First Kiss Under the Mistletoe 1870
Little brother kissing his baby sibling under the mistletoe. Date: 1870

A Childs Dream of Christmas 1869
Father Christmas with holly leaf wreath upon his head and a ragged beard, handing out fruit and coins to young Victorian children. Date: 1869

Horn Dance, Abbots Bromley 1899
Four of the performers, English folk dance dating back to the Middle Ages in Abbots Bromley. Most wear spotted breeches of uniform pattern

Swan Upping on the Thames 1900
Annual ceremony taking place on the Thames where British Crown swans are rounded up, caught, ringed, and then released. The party occupy a flotilla of row boats the sterns adorned with flags

Stratford-upon-Avon, Mop Fair 1899
Standing for Hire, Stratford-upon-Avon, said to be the largest fair in England, regarded by the agricultural class in the district as the chief holiday of the year

Knutsford, Cheshire, Royal May Day Festival 1902
May Day Festival in Knutsford, Cheshire town, taking place every year, were children dress-up in costumes, shepherdesses, milkmaids and folkloric figures like Robin Hood, Little John and Maid Marion

Picking up sixpences at Smithfield 1902
Centuries-old tradition, when 21 sixpences were placed upon a flat gravestone in the churchyard at St. Bartholomew in Smithfield, London, on Good Friday morning

CHILDREN IN SLEIGH
Two children and their dog in a sleigh Date: 1916

GIRL SNOWBALLING
A girl snowballing with her brother Date: circa 1890

Carting Decorations
Three children bring home a cart-load of decorations 1889

Druids build a wicker man for sacrifice
The Wicker Man In which people were burnt as sacrifices to their deities

Father Christmas reading Xmas letters
Father Christmas reads his mail Date: circa 1870

Father Christmas and Xmas stockings
Father Christmas about to fill the stockings hanging in the fireplace with presents Date: 19th century

Medieval falconry
FALCONRY in October Date: 9th Century

Northrop F-89B Scorpion 49-2434 (buzz number FV-434), on display at Lackland Air Force Base, in December 1965. Accepted by USAF in January 1951 as an F-89A; modified as EF-89A test-bed for

North American B-25H-10 Mitchell 43-5103 (msn 98-22104), on display at Lackland Air Force Base near San Antonio in Texas, in the USAF History and Traditions Museum collection. Date: circa 1960

Bell QF-63G-1-BE Kingcobra Pinball 45-57295
(United States Air Force - )Bell QF-63G-1-BE Kingcobra Pinball 45-57295, on display at Lackland Air Force Base near San Antonio in Texas, in the USAF History and Traditions Museum collection

North American F-82E Twin Mustang 46-0262
(United States Air Force - )North American F-82E Twin Mustang 46-0262 (msn 144-38148, buzz number FQ-262), on display at Lackland Air Force Base near San Antonio in Texas

United States Air Force - Convair F-102A Delta Dagger
United States Air Force - Convair F-102A-25-CO Delta Dagger 53-1817, of Air Proving Ground Command. This photo shows the original short fin fitted to the proto Types and first 66 production aircraft

The custom of offering floral tributes to Neptune happened every year on the 13th May in Abbotsbury, Dorset, locally known as Garland Day

Zodiac Constellations

Twelfth Night 1841
Twelfth Night celebrations - crowds of people on the pavement outside a shop. Date: January 1841

Bringing home the yule log 1883
Christmas scene, with mother and her children pulling the huge yule log home

Twelfth Night in France 1852
Twelfth Night tradition, a bean and pea are hidden inside the Twelfth-night cake, the man who finds the bean in his slice of cake becomes King for the night

Hauling home, wedding party in Ireland 1870
Hauling Home, generally refers to the old ceremony of escorting the bride and groom to the couples home after a wedding.. Date: 1870

Bringing in yule log on Christmas Eve
A Christmas party in Elizabethan times: the traditional Yule Log is dragged into the Great Hall. Date: circa 16th century

Bringing in the boars head at Christmas
A Christmas party in Elizabethan times: the traditional ringing in the boars head at Christmas time. Date: circa 16th century

Crown of the feast 1868
The boiled plum-pudding, crammed with raisins, figs and orange-peel, set a alight with blazing brandy. Date: 1868

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