Elisabeth Jean Ansell Scrapbook: Cricket in 1956-1957

Reference

SCR161

Date:

1934 - 1957

Level of description

item

Extent

1 scrapbook

Scope and Content

Scrapbook of newspaper cuttings, cigarette cards, programmes and scorecards relating to cricket in 1956 and 1957 compiled by Elisabeth Jean Ansell. Includes articles on MCC's tour of South Africa in 1956-1957, West Indies' tour of England in 1957, the Gentlemen vs. Players match at Lord's in 1957, programme from the Kenton vs. Middlesex match at Kenton in 1956, in aid of Club Development Fund.

The scrapbook contains cigarette cards of the following players:
J C Laker, D V Smith, G A R Lock, L O'B Fleetwood-Smith, W J O'Reilly, D G Bradman, W H Ponsford, A F Kippax, W A Brown, L S Darling, B A Barnett, C V Grimmett, S J McCabe, T W Wall, H Verity, H Sutcliffe, J C White, L F Townsend, B H Valentine, H H Gibbons, R E S Wyatt, E W Dawson, F R Santall, A H Dyson, K Farnes, M J Turnbull.

The scrapbook contains scorecards from the following matches:

1956
Middlesex vs. Kent (Lord's), MCC vs. Australians (Lord's)

1957
England vs. West Indies (Souvenir Scorecard including Test matches at Edgbaston, Lord's, Trent Bridge, Headingley and The Oval).

Associations

James Charles Laker
Donald Victor Smith
Graham Anthony Richard Lock
Leslie O'Brien Fleetwood-Smith
William Joseph O'Reilly
Sir Donald George Bradman
William Harold Ponsford
Alan Falconer Kippax
William Alfred Brown
Leonard Stuart Darling
Benjamin Arthur Barnett
Clarence Victor Grimmett
Stanley Joseph McCabe
Thomas Welbourn Wall
Hedley Verity
Herbert Sutcliffe
John Cornish White
Leslie Fletcher Townsend
Bryan Herbert Valentine
Harold Harry Ian Haywood Gibbons
Robert Elliot Storey Wyatt
Edward William Dawson
Frederick Reginald Santall
Arnold Herbert Dyson
Kenneth Farnes
Maurice Joseph Lawson Turnbull
Kenton Cricket Club
Middlesex County Cricket Club

Subject

West Indies in England 1957, MCC in South Africa 1956-1957, Australia in England 1956, cigarette cards, scorecards

Institution name

Marylebone Cricket Club

Conditions governing access

Open

Language

English

Size

1 scrapbook

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