Rackets Collection

William Hart Dyke
Sir WILLIAM HART DYKE Statesman, a noted rackets player in his younger days, educated at Harrow and ChristChurch, Oxford Date: 1837 - 1931

Tennis Rackets
Images showing the differing constructions of tennis rackets through the ages. From the museum of F. H. Ayres, sports outfitters. Date: circa 1924

Poster advertisement for Cannes, South of France, for winter holidays, with flowers, a children's carnival, concerts, golf, cricket, and pigeon shooting. Date: 1892

Couple posing with tennis rackets, probably in Blanefield, Scotland. circa 1890s

Games and Pastimes- Hockey
A page from The Bystander relating to games and pastimes in 1911. The photograph at the top shows a hockey international between England and Ireland

Mrs Fearnley-Whittingstall in tennis shorts, with a Greek sculpture of an Amazon by Pheidias for comparison. Date: 1933

Battledore
Two people playing battledore (an early badminton) using smaller rackets and a Shuttlecock. Date: 15th Century

Greetings card in the shape of a badminton racquet. Date: circa 1890s

Comerton Home, Newport-on-Tay, Fife
Children and staff in front of the Comerton Home, near Newport, Fife. Toys include a rocking horse and dolls house. Two boys hold tennis rackets. Date: circa 1905

The Avenue tennis racket advertising showcard, 1890
An exquisite advertising show card from around 1890 for The Avenue tennis racquet manufactured by Clapshaw and Cleave of Birmingham, Bradford and Brighton

Taking a break from the tennis
Three women enjoy a drink and a picnic while taking a break from playing tennis. 1927

Waiting for the tennis courts to dry
The Botanical Hard Court tennis tournament is postponed due to torrential rain. 1927

Tennis frocks, 1927
Tennis frocks from Robinson and Cleaver s, Regent Street. 1927

Picnic Cakes with sports decorations -- lawn tennis, coaching, cricket, boating, football, polo. circa 1890

New Year card in the shape of a badminton racquet with shuttlecock and butterfly. Date: circa 1890s

Christmas card in the shape of a badminton racquet with shuttlecock and butterfly. Date: circa 1890s

American Wightman Cup Team
Members of the American Wightman Cup Team, from left to right: Josephine Cruickshank, Carolin Babcock, Helen Jacobs, Alice Marble and Sarah Palfrey. Date: 1934

Four police officers playing mixed doubles tennis
Four police officers (including WPC Alison Blair, right) playing a mixed doubles tennis match. Date: circa 1960s

Article on the new game Stick頡nd Rugby Football
Page of text on rugby football and Stick麠 the new game (lawn tennis cum squash rackets) This includes information on how Stick頷 as played. Date: April 22nd 1908

Women police officers in tennis gear, Pembridge Hall
Women police officers in tennis gear, with racquets, on the steps of Pembridge Hall Section House for women police officers, at 17 Pembridge Square, Bayswater, London W2

Photographs of the game Stick頢eing played
Stick頭 the evolution of a new game from lawn tennis and squash rackets. The game of Stick頩s a sort of combination of lawn tennis and squash rackets

Edwardian woman playing tennis, watched by a smoking man. Date: early 1900s

Edwardian couple playing tennis -- the man runs to hit the ball. Date: early 1900s

Three children playing shuttlecock on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Five girls with tea tray in a garden
Five girls with a tea tray in a garden on a summers day. A badminton net is set up on the lawn in the background. Date: circa 1920s

Silhouette of contrasting transport, 1874 and 1924, by H.L. Oakley, in Tennis magazine, 24 July 1924. Above: a group of people arriving at a country house by horse-drawn carriage in 1874

The Princes Club Racquet Courts, 1857
The Princes Club Racquet Courts at Hans Place, Belgrave Square, London. A private gentlemans club, designed by Mr. B. Burton, consisting of three courts, one of which is pictured here

Future King George VI at Wimbledon
A superb photograph of the future King George VI (1895-1952) (when Duke of York) pictured at Wimbledon in 1926 (ten years before the start of his reign), where he played doubles with his mentor

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