28/03/2017
Dorking’s street football probably had its origins in the Catholic Lenten festivals that took place all over England before the Reformation. On the morning of Shrove Tuesday shopkeepers barricaded their premises and children were given the day off school.
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Cricket was born in Surrey, Sussex and Kent. The first recorded local game was at Mickleham Downs in 1730. By the 1760s it was well established on the Cotmandene.
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Horace Peter Bailey was born in Derby on 3rd July 1881 to Peter Bailey, an iron and brass moulder / iron foundry foreman, and his wife Sarah.
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In the 1870s Warwick Races was rocked by a betting storm, where threats of prosecution abounded.
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Tom Wills, educated at Rugby School, Warwickshire, was an Australian sporting genius.
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Think of the grass court tennis season in England, and it is natural to think of Wimbledon, strawberries and cream, and a very ‘English’ tradition. Leamington’s role in that tradition, however, cannot be underestimated.
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14 January 2016, marked 140 years since Essex County Cricket Club was established at a public meeting at the Shire Hall in Chelmsford.
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In the later years of the First World War and in the years following, women’s teams became more and more common.
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One hundred and ten years ago, two doctors confronted one another in South London.
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Conan Doyle, a slow-to-medium paced bowler for the MCC, had had a quiet game: taking no wickets in the first innings, and scoring only 4. Now, on the final day, he found himself wheeled in to bowl again...
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This document is part of 45 manorial rolls held within Warwickshire County Record Office, covering the period 1334-1601.
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For those not familiar to stoolball, it’s probably best described as ‘cricket in the air’ with different bats, balls and wickets.
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Although initially, the game was popular in South Wales, Anglesey has long been one of the strongholds of rugby in North Wales, and this photograph takes us back to 1966.
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By 1919 Elaine Frances Burton had won the 100 yards sprint at the Northern Counties Ladies’ Championships in Manchester aged just 16, but from the beginning sports was never her only priority
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Burroughs' Wellcome & Co employees were competing in a variety of activities: sprints over a 100 yards, distance running over one mile, a high jump competition and the exertions of the tug of war.
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The Aviva Women’s Cycling Tour visited Warwickshire for the first time recently, so we thought we’d have a dig around for some Warwickshire cycling history.
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Earl was famous for his paintings of sporting events and animals, particularly dogs. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1857, and one year exhibited a massive 19 works.
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This postcard shows the No 16 Platoon football team, which has some strong Anglesey connections.
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