Surrey Cricket Club

Reference

TD/531/1/1

Date:

1905 - 1907-08-10

Level of description

item

Extent

1 postcard

Part of

R Scott - County Teams (TD/531/1)

Scope and Content

Postcard depicting a black and white photographic group portrait of Surrey Cricket Club, twelve players are positioned in two rows. All players are wearing cricket whites, six wear Surrey blazers with 'S' crest on breast pocket, one wears a blazer of the 1901-1902 England Tour in Australia with checkeed trim, three blazers have crest obscured, one wears a round-neck sweater, eleven wear Surrey caps with 'S' crest on the front. Blank background.

Message on reverse reads: "Have been to the Oval today to see Surrey v Middlesex which ended in a draw. It was showery at time. Hope to hear from you soon. Of course I have done with Basing now. Will soon be "alington"[?] Yours ever F."

Sent to: Miss Roberts, Gawcombe, Nr Chipping Norton, Oxon. Green Edward VII half penny stamp with Stockwell postmark, 10 August 1907, 8 pm.

Associations

Surrey County Cricket Club
Herbert Strudwick
Albert Baker
Alan Marshal
Frederick Charles Holland
Ernest Herbert Leonard Nice
Sir John Berry Hobbs
John Neville Crawford
Ernest George Hayes
Neville Alexander Knox
Lord Dalmeny
Thomas Walter Hayward
Walter Scott Lees

Subject

Postcards, Surrey cricketers, blazer, cricket caps, England in Australia 1901-1902

Conditions governing access

Open

Language

English

Size

1 postcard

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