All 16 men flew from all over the world to Portsmouth Grammar School, Hampshire, so they could pose for an exact replica of the shot taken in 1962.
The odds of all of the original first team being alive to meet for the milestone anniversary was worked out at 256,000 to one.
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Two bygone amusements that we’re well rid of:
In fox tossing, popular in the 17th century, foxes would be released into an arena in which slings were laid between pairs of participants. If a fox crossed a sling, they would fling it into the air, usually killing or severely injuring it. The highest toss won the contest.
In goose pulling, a live goose was tied by its feet to a rope stretched over a course, and each competitor would ride under it at full speed and try to pull off its head.
“This pastime is not one to be commended on the score of humanity,” noted Baily’s Magazine of Sports & Pastimes in 1902, “but it did something to test horsemanship; the goose we may be sure did not hang in a state of resigned quietude, and if the horseman had not a good seat he ran an excellent chance of coming a heavy cropper in his attempt to seize the writhing neck.”
William F Buckley Jr show jumping his horse Pickles in Camden, South Carolina, March 25, 1941
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Marion Post Wolcott - Sulky Races, Shelby County Fair, Kentucky, 1940
Bicyclist William Anderson reading a letter while biking during a six day bike race, 1948.
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A man giving an alsatian dog a ride on his bicycle during a rehearsal for the Alsatian Training Display at the Aldershot Show.
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