Retro Yorkshire: Amazing photos show sunny Yorkshire was like in the 19th and 20th centuries including people playing on the beach on the Yorkshire coast
From children splashing around in the sea in Whitby in the early 20th century to a group of people playing tennis on the Neswick Hall grounds in the late 19th century, Yorkshire was full of life.
These fascinating photos take us back more than 140 years and offer a glimpse into what Yorkshire folk were up to during the sunshine days including a rare sighting of a total solar eclipse of the sun.
1. Total eclipse of the sun
Crowds gathered on a hill near Giggleswick, north Yorkshire, to view a total eclipse of the sun in June 1927. The previous such eclipse had been in 1724, and the next would occur in 1999. Photo: Keystone / Getty Images
2. Tennis in Driffield
A tennis match in the grounds of Neswick Hall in 1880. Photo: Hulton Archive / Getty Images
3. First motion picture in Leeds
French inventor and filmmaker Louis Le Prince with his father in-law, Joseph Whitley, at the Whitley family home in Roundhay, Leeds in 1887. A year later, Le Prince shot 'Roundhay Garden Scene', which is thought to be the first ever motion picture. He mysteriously disappeared in September 1890. Photo: Hulton Archive / Getty Images
4. Gathering eggs at Bempton Cliffs
A group of men gathering gulls' eggs from the cliffs at Bempton circa 1900. Photo: Hulton Archive / Getty Images