Search results
All Items (10,592)
Gallery (9,468)
Map (515)
Related Topics
Showing 1-20 of 9,468 results for “”
The most important hill climb of the year in England was held on Saturday, 4th September, -when the Midland Automobile Clnb held its twenty-first Annual Open Hill Climb, at Shelsley-Walsh, Worcestershire. It was quite an International meeting, as British, French, German, and Italian cars competed, and drivers of both sexes controlled many wonderful and powerful machines. The picture shows J. Taylor, in / his car, recovering from a skid at the bend. The length of the timed portion of the hill was 1000 yards. (Evening Post, 30 October 1926)
Society from nearly all over the world was enjoying itself last month in a variety of ways at the European seaside resorts, the most noted and fashionable being DeauvUle, on the coast of Normandy. Here may be seen some of the most fantastic bathing costumes imaginable, while open-air dress parades excite the admiration of the many onlookers. General view of the crowded beach at La Potiniere, near DeauviUe. (Evening Post, 30 October 1926)
View of the remains of the building at Drumcollogher, County Limerick, in which fifty-one persona were burnt to death, including fifteen children. At the Inquest dramafic disclosures wen made, the owner of the cinema telling the Coroner that the operating machine was unprotected, and that the films, out of their cases, lay on a table with a burning candle near them. The proprietor, William Forde, and the operator, Patrick Downey, were arrested after the verdict and charged with manslaughter. (Evening Post, 30 October 1926)