England Women tour of Australia and New Zealand, 1968-1969 (Audrey Disbury)

Reference

WCA/S/1/TEMP32

Date:

1967-05-29 - 1969-04-01

Level of description

item

Extent

1 scrapbook

Part of

Cricket Tours and Competitions (WCA/S/1)

Scope and Content

Scrapbook of items relating to the England Women tour of Australia and New Zealand in 1968-1969, compiled by Audrey Disbury. Includes official tour brochures produced by the Women's Cricket Association, souvenir programme for the Walsall Wood vs. Rachael Heyhoe's XI match at Walsall in May 1967, poster for a dance hosted by Great Chell Cricket Club in 1968, signed scorecard for a match between Rachael Heyhoe's XI against Whitmore and Newcastle Cricket Club in June 1968, posters advertising a charity cricket match between an England Women's XI against The Cricket Society at Burton Court in Chelsea in July 1968, poster advertising a match at Westhill Shanklin between Shanklin and the England team in August 1968, batting lineups for a match between the England team and a Yorkshire Television Eleven, newspaper cuttings including match reports and profiles of the team including Disbury, invitation cards for farewell dinners to the team and receptions, postcards of Amsterdam, Athens and Bangkok, menu cards from the Qantas flight to Australia, fixture cards for the tour produced by the Australian Women's Cricket Council, admission tickets, scorecard from the match between England and Western Australia State XI, programme for a carol concert in Adelaide in December 1968, programmes for the Test matches between Australia and England in Adelaide, St Kilda and Sydney, programme for the Victoria vs. England match in January 1969, scorecard from the New South Wales vs. England match at Kensington in January 1969, scorecard from the New South Wales Metropolitan XI vs. England XI match at Manly in January 1969, postcards of Australia, tourist maps of Australia and New Zealand, fixture list for the England tour to New Zealand produced by the New Zealand Women's Cricket Council, scorecard from the Wellington vs. England match at Wellington in February 1969, scorecard from the England vs. New Zealand Test match at Wellington in February 1969.

Associations

Audrey Delph Disbury
Rachael Heyhoe Flint
Women's Cricket Association
New Zealand Women's Cricket Council
Great Chell Cricket Club
Whitmore and Newcastle Cricket Club
Australian Women's Cricket Council
The Cricket Society
Yorkshire Television

Subject

England Women in Australia 1968-1969, England Women in New Zealand 1968-1969

Institution name

Marylebone Cricket Club

Conditions governing access

Open

Language

English

Size

1 scrapbook

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