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Picture No 10054530
Date 1886
Description Tobogganing at the Liverpool Exhibition 1886
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International Exhibition of Navigation, Commerce and Industry opened on 11 May 1886 by Queen Victoria, consisted of things from the British Empire and outside the United Kingdom including this tobogganing with sleighs on natural or artificial, was an old national pastime with the Russians and Canadians and was introduced into Eastern Europe at the beginning of the 19th century.
Source Engraving in 'The Queen, The Lady's Newspaper', 20 November 1886, page 596
Credit Mary Evans Picture Library
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