1938-1945 (Aline Brown)

Reference

WCA/S/2/TEMP5

Date:

1938-05 - 1945-07-28

Level of description

item

Extent

1 scrapbook

Part of

Women's Cricket - General (WCA/S/2)

Scope and Content

Scrapbook of newspaper cuttings compiled by Aline Brown. Includes reports on domestic cricket matches in England, reports on wartime cricket in England, copies of 'Women's Cricket' magazine from May-September 1938 and May-September 1939, articles on Gunnersbury Women's Cricket Club, copy of Gunnersbury Women's Cricket Club rules for 1939, letter to Brown informing her that she had been selected for the England Women's tour to Australia in 1939-1940 (cancelled due to the war), letter to Brown from H E Archdale regarding the tour, telegrams, photographs of the Gunnersbury team at Colwall in 1939, rules of a match between men and women played at Grantham Hospital for charity during the Second World War at which the men would use broomsticks, photographs of a match between the Army Training Services and Women's Auxiliary Air Force in August 1943.

The scrapbook contains scorecards from the following matches:

1939
Touring Team for Australia vs. Rest of England (The Oval), Surrey vs. Herts and District (Mitcham)

1945
Women's Auxiliary Air Force vs. Women's Cricket Association (Uxbridge)

Associations

Aline A Brown
Gunnersbury Women's Cricket Club
Army Training Services
Women's Auxiliary Air Force
Helen Elizabeth Archdale

Subject

England Women in Australia 1939-1940

Institution name

Marylebone Cricket Club

Conditions governing access

Open

Language

English, 6574, , , , , , , , ,

Size

1 scrapbook

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