The English Team, Test Match 1905

Reference

TD/456/1

Date:

1905

Level of description

item

Extent

1 postcard

Part of

Rosemont (TD/456)

Scope and Content

Postcard depicting a black and white photographic group portrait of the England Cricket Team against Australia at the third Test at Headlingley in 1905, twelve players are positioned in two rows. All players are wearing Yorkshire blazer with white rose crest on breast pocket, one wears a Kent blazer with horse crest on breats pocket, two wear blazers of the 1901-1902 England Team in Australia with checkered trim and royal coat of arms on breast pocket, two wear blazers with striped trim, two wear plain dark blazers, two wear different dark blazers with thin light trim, two wear dark blazers with no crest and one wears a white or cream coloured blazer. Three wear Yorkshire caps with white rose crest on the front, two wear MCC touring caps with St. George and dragon crest on the front, one wears a Kent cap with horse crest on the front, one wears a Hampshire cap with rose and crown crest on the front, one wears a Lancashire cap with red rose crest on the front, one wears a cap with royal coat of arms on the front of 1901-1902 England Team in Australia, one wears a cap with circular crest and figure in the middle. Positioned in front of hedges.

Postcard is unused.

Associations

England Cricket Team
George Herbert Hirst
David Denton
Arnold Warren
Colin Blythe
Arthur Frederick Augustus Lilley
Wilfred Rhodes
Schofield Haigh
John Thomas Tyldesley
Charles Burgess Fry
Francis Stanley Jackson
Bernard James Tindall Bosanquet
Thomas Walter Hayward

Subject

Postcards, Australia in England 1905, blazer, cricket caps, England cricketers, Headingley, Leeds, England

Conditions governing access

Open

Language

English

Size

1 postcard

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