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Mariquita, a 19 Metre Gaff Cutter built in 1911 by William Fife & Sons competing in the Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez 2010. Photographer : Daniel F

2012 Olympic Games, Sailing, Weymouth. Day 6: Finn Class: GBR, Sir Ben Ainslie leading the race to take 1st overall.

South Downs National Park, Blackdown. Photo: Slawek Staszczuk / PPL

1993/4 Whitbread Round The World Race (Volvo). The Volvo 60 Tokio skippered by Chris Dickson screaming up the Solent towards the finish.

Close up of Walking boots Walking the South Downs.

Man waterskiing. Photo : Alastair Black / PPL

Beachy Head with Lighthouse, Eastbourne, East Sussex. Photo: Don Carr / PPL

Young couple cycling on the South Downs Way at Butser Hill in the Meon Valley, Hampshire.

Ponies in Hollands Wood, The New Forrest.

Historic. CIRCA: October 1870. Published in The Graphic NewspaperModel boats on The Serpentine Lake, Hyde Park, London.

Circa 1967. Cowes Week, Isle of Wight. Cervantes broaching

Mariquita, a 19 Metre Gaff Cutter built in 1911 by William Fife & Sons competing in the Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez 2010. Photographer : Daniel Forster / PPL

2012 Olympic Games, Sailing, Weymouth. Day 6: Finn Class: GBR, Sir Ben Ainslie leading the race to take 1st overall. Photo: Daniel Forster / PPL

The morning light across Durdle Door on the Jurassic Coastline in Dorset.

South Downs National Park, Blackdown. Photo: Slawek Staszczuk / PPL

1993/4 Whitbread Round The World Race (Volvo). The Volvo 60 Tokio skippered by Chris Dickson screaming up the Solent towards the finish. Photo: PPL

1920 - Central fire station crew, Worthing, West Sussex. Photo: CK Bowers / PPL

Louie Sercombe plays with a lamb at Gaston Farm, Slindon, March 2009

Photo: Liz Vande Putte/PPL

Patchwork fields of the Raddon Hills in Devon. A storm passes overhead but to the east the sun is still managing to cast shadows from the trees. Photo: Julian Elliott / PPL

Circa 1960: Francis Chichester aboard his ketch rigged yacht Gipsy Moth III, preparing for the first Observer Singlehanded Transtatlantic Race (OSTAR) Photo: Eileen Ramsay Archive / PPL

1981/2 Whitbread round the world rac 'Flyer' surfing in heavy weather in the southern ocean with skipper Cornelis van Rietschoten at the wheel. Photo: Onne van der wal / PPL

Close up of Walking boots Walking the South Downs. Photo: Sussex Image Library / PPL

Man waterskiing in the South of England. Photo : Alastair Black / PPL

Sunset at Leigh, Essex. Photo: Ian James / PPL

29er Worlds, 2011, Mar del Plata, Argentina. Photo: Matias Capizzano / PPL

Beachy Head with Lighthouse, Eastbourne, East Sussex. Photo: Don Carr / PPL

Young couple cycling on the South Downs Way at Butser Hill in the Meon Valley, Hampshire.

Photo: Peter Langdown / PPL

1938 - S/A - Line up of 'L' Cars. Photo: CK Bowers / PPL

1985/6 Whitbread Round The World Yacht Race: 'Cote d'Or' skippered by Eric Tabarly.

Photo: Barry Pickthall / PPL

Windsurfing, Teva Joyeaux. Photo: Jono Knight / PPL

'ABN AMRO TWO', skippered by Seb Josse, during the 2005/06 Volvo Ocean Race.

Photo: Jon Nash / PPL

Architecture. Sydney Opera House in fading light with Sydney Harbour Bridge in background. Australia. Photo: PPL

Ponies in Hollands Wood, The New Forrest. Photo: Slawek Staszczuk / PPL

Historic. CIRCA: October 1870. Published in The Graphic NewspaperModel boats on The Serpentine Lake, Hyde Park, London. Photo: PPL

Circa 1967. Cowes Week, Isle of Wight. Cervantes broaching.

Photo: Eileen Ramsay Archive / PPL

PPL Photo Agency, headed by Barry Pickthall began life as a specialist watersports photo library in 1973, and now encompasses UK and world-wide travel, Sussex and the South East region, and historic pictures.

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