Surrey XI

Reference

TD/157/1/3/8

Date:

1903 - 1903-06-20

Level of description

item

Extent

1 postcard

Part of

Dainty Series - County Teams (TD/157/1/3)

Scope and Content

Postcard depicting a black and white photographic group portrait of Surrey County Cricket Club, twelve players and manager are positioned in three rows. All players are wearing cricket whites, seven wear a variety of striped blazers, five wear plain blazers, ten wear boaters and one wears a light cap, the manager is wearing a suit. Situated in front of a stone wall with hedging. Located at Hove County Ground.

Message on front reads: "Dear Leslie. Father and I are going to see "The Schoolgirl" tomorrow night at the Prince of Wales Theatre. rather hot. 30.6.1903."

Sent to: L.H. Aste, Northdown Hill School, Cliftonville, Margate. Green Edward VII half penny stamp with Bromley postmark, 20 June 1903, 6:15 pm.

Associations

Surrey County Cricket Club
Thomas Walter Hayward
Frederick Charles Holland
Ernest George Hayes
William Henry Lockwood
Robert Abel
Livingstone Walker
Walter Scott Lees
Ernest Herbert Leonard Nice
Harry Pile Clode
Herbert Strudwick
Thomas Richardson

Subject

Postcards, cricket caps, blazer, Hove, Sussex, England

Conditions governing access

Open

Language

English

Size

1 postcard

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