Pastime Gallery

Polo - Its Social Aspect by Higgins

The best part of the game. Polo players at a club such as Hurlingham or Ranelagh unwind after (or in the middle) of a match to share pleasantries with some female companions while a band plays in the background. Date: 1919

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

Club, Clubs, Flirtation, Flirting, Historical, History, Leisure, Pastime, Pastimes, Player, Players, Polo, Romance, Society, Sport

Surf riding at Muizenburg on the Cape Coast

A contrast to the grey days at home: surf-riding at Muizenburg, the Queen of Cape Coast Watering Places. A universal summer pastime of the South African coastal resorts, surf-riding. The scene is at Muizenburg, in the Cape Peninsula, usually considered to be the Queen of Cape coast watering polaces. Surfing is a thrilling and healthy exercise which has to be tried to be appreciated

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The 8th Duke of Devonshire fishing on the Blackwater with Lismore Castle in the background, c

3474041 The 8th Duke of Devonshire fishing on the Blackwater with Lismore Castle in the background, c.1889 (b/w photo)
; Collection of the Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth House, UK; (add.info.: photograph by A.H. Poole.
Spencer Compton Cavendish (1833-1908) 8th Duke of Devonshire.
Lismore Castle is the Irish home of the Duke of Devonshire.); © Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth; Reproduced by permission of Chatsworth Settlement Trustees; out of copyright

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