Description
Round, brass or copper coin used as an admission token. Stamped ‘Hyde Park Cricket Ground’ and ‘Samuel Heathcote’.
In The Origins of Sheffield Wednesday' by Jason Dickinson, Samuel Heathcote was paid £12 for the rent of Hyde Park cricket ground by Wednesday Cricket Club. Slater's National Commercial Directory by Isaac Slater, 1846 has Samuel Heathcote as proprietor of the Hyde Park Tavern