Winter With Vengeance - Ice Sports Order Of The Day At Wimbledon (1914-1918)

Winter with vengeance - ice sports order of the day at Wimbledon. London. Women dressed in winter coats; hats; scarves; sitting in a row on edge of rink; lacing and tying their ice skates. Men skating about on rink in a park with bare trees in BG. A man & woman skate together; very gracefully; turning around and around as they pass by a row of people watching them. A man and woman help a little girl to stay standing up; each on one side of her. Then a shot of a soldier and sailor skating in a pair; with crossed arms. Curling. A man crouches down and slides the stone with handle across ice; he lands sitting down spread-legged on the ice; but gets right back up; another man; in knickers; watching in BG. Then; 2 guys holding brooms watch as a stone slides toward them; past some other stones on the ice; one of them is using broom on the ice by the moving stone; but not touching stone itself. Unusual sports. A game for cold weather climates. Recreation; skill. Figure skating; dance. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be viewed on the British Pathé website.