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SPORT WOMAN PAGE

... set in a crystal, and the most perfect little model in miniature of a bathing machine, whose door opens on the touch of a spring, to disclose a dainty little damsel, in correct bathing attire of coloured enamel, all ready to take the plunge into the sea ...

THE WORLD OF SPORT: SWIMMING

... ship for his praiseworthy conduct. Again, at Worthing, a young man named Frank Sayers, with several companions, was bathing from a machine opposite Portland Place, when, exhausted by his efforts to swim ashore in the strong tide and swell, he sank. Mr. ...

Published: Wednesday 10 July 1895
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1641 | Page: 44 | Tags: Photographs 

THE END OF THE BATHING SEASON

... . Once on a time there used to he Two little maids of Norman die. --Old Song. OSTEND: MIXED BATHING. BATHING AT DIEPPE. rnoio oy nouana, Bournemouth BATHING AT DIEPPE: A FAMILY PARTY, Photo by Holland Bournemouth ...

Published: Wednesday 20 September 1899
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 856 | Page: 38 | Tags: Photographs 

SOCIETY ON WHEELS

... and the contract is for sixteen thousand Cambridge machines, as they are to be called over here, which will be delivered in England before the end of next year. in America the price of each machine is twentv-hve guinea*. Here in England the retail price ...

Published: Wednesday 14 July 1897
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1412 | Page: 40 | Tags: Photographs 

THE SPORTSMAN'S LIBRARY

... the Captain's water, and at all times and seasons some person was away' in one of them, or down at the bathing house enjoying a so-called sea-bath, although it was not really salt water, being more of an inland lake. Canoeing is one of the great sports ...

SOCIETY ON WHEELS

... lower tube of his machine suddenly snapped asunder, and naturally the upper tube instantly broke too. The sharp end of a broken tube cut the Captain's leg so severely as he fell that he has been in bed for over a fortnight. The machine had a short time ...

Published: Wednesday 22 April 1896
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1557 | Page: 40 | Tags: Photographs 

SPORTS WOMAN'S PAGE

... order, but as a rule the height of frame and name of maker ol the best known machines secure a good lit. It takes up no room in the house and keeps the dust off the machine as well as keeping it bright and neat, and for travelling it is invaluable. The ...

LEOPARDSTOWN RACE MEETING

... 12.20. Pictures of the meeting will appear in our neek week's issue. The Royal Agricultural Society's trials of hay-making machines were finished on Thursday, the 4th inst., at Piercc- bridge, near Darlington. Messrs. Barford and Perkins, of Peterborough ...

THE MAN ON THE WHEEL

... bicycle as well as anywhere else, should ride as high-framed machines as they can get. It gives them an immense advantage in the matter of grace. But one does not have the same control over one's machine with big wheels and a high frame as on a low frame and ...

Published: Wednesday 08 November 1899
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1581 | Page: 39 | Tags: Photographs 

MR. C. G. WRIDGWAY, WORLD'S RECORD HOLDER

... a fresh machine, his old one having the forks so bent from the violence of the fall as to be useless. Shortly afterwards he entered on a desperate struggle with Linton, who at that time held the lead. Ably paced by Smith and Lowe, of the Bath-road Club ...

SPORTS WOMAN'S PAGE

... created in this country against machines from across the Atlantic, which can only be described as cheap and nasty. The Cleveland bicycles, built by the Lozier Brighain Company, are patriotic pioneers, in so far that these machines are just the pleasant opposite ...