Bat Collection

Don Bradman Going out to Bat for the Last Time, Melbourne Cr
Photograph of Don Bradman going out to bat, during his last first-class cricket match; a game between Bradmans XI and L. Hassetts XI, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, December 1948

Six owl bellringers on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Pterodactyls considered as marsupial bats
Pterodactylus crassirostris above P. brevirostris. Plate from Note on the Pterodactyle Tribe... Paper in The Zoologist, Vol 1, 1843 by Edward Newman

W. G. GRACE
The legendary cricketer, Dr. W.G. Grace poised with his bat

Territorial Army Poster
A recruiting poster for the Territorial Army, highlighting that sporting pursuits need not be sacrificed to join - in fact they are actually strongly encouraged!

Denis Compton at Hastings
Cricketer Denis Compton acknowledges the crowd at the Central Recreation Ground, Hastings. Playing for The South against Sir Pelham Warners Eleven

Frank Sugg cricket bats advert, 1906 Date: 1906

Babe Ruth, full-length portrait, standing, facing slightly left, in baseball uniform, holding baseball bat. Date c1920

The Block / Felix on Bat
Home Block

Girls Playing Cricket
Two energetic and enthusiastic girls playing cricket. One girl screeches to a halt with her cricket bat, whilst the other tries to catch her out at the wicket!

Spooner / Cricketer
R H Reggie Spooner, English cricketer

Returning home

Denis Compton at Hastings
Denis Compton turns a ball from spinner Jim Laker (out of picture) off his legs to score another boundary past the despairing reach of the short leg fielder as wicketkeeper Stewart Billy Griffith

Grace, Jones & Jephson
Three county cricket captains, from left - Mr A.O. Jones, Dr W.G. Grace and Mr. D.L.A. Jephson

The Bat and Ball Public House, Hambledon, 1908
Photograph showing the Bat and Ball Public House at Hambledon, circa 1908. The pub was formerly known as the Broadhalfpenny Hut

Pipistrellus pipistrellus, common pipistrelle
Plate from a collection of pencil sketches and watercolour drawings of British mammals c. 1890-1910 by Edward Adrian Wilson (1872-1912)

Baseball / Casey at Bat
Casey at the bat

Good Luck card with two cricket bats, a ball and a wicket. Date: circa 1890s

Cricket Match 1743
A cricket match at the Artillery Ground, London. The 18th century bat was a longer, heavier, curved version and just one two-stump wicket was used

Varieties of bats
Western naked-backed fruit bat, Dobsonia peronii 1, long-tongued nectar bat, Macroglossus minimus 2, northern ghost bat, Diclidurus albus 3, and Geoffroys rousette, Rousettus amplexicaudatus 4

Outdoor games. Cricket
Young Edwardian boy with a cricket bat. Date: circa 1903

Denis Compton and Patsy Hendren at The Oval, London
Denis Compton (1918-1997) and Patsy Hendren (1889-1962) at The Oval, London, coming out to bat in a match between Surrey and Middlesex, 1st innings, Monday 10 August 1936. Date: 1936

Original logo, British Broadcasting Corporation
Original logo for the BBC, British Broadcasting Corporation. circa 1953

W G Grace, legendary cricketer, batting. late 19th century

Book cover design, The Romance of Aeronautics: an Interesting Account of the Growth and Achievements of All Kinds of Aerial Craft, by Charles C Turner, London: Seeley, Service & Co. Limited, 1912

Making Cricket Bats
A cricket bat maker at Accrington, Lancashire, England, who is using the shin bone of a reindeer to smooth of a bat. Date: 1930s

The Man Who Bid Half-A-Guinea At Tattersall s, by H. M. Bat
A humorous illustration showing a man who has caused havoc at the races. Bateman (1887-1970) was a popular artist and regularly contributed to the Sketch, the Tatler and the Bystander

R. A. Duff and V. Trumper of the Australia Team, 1902
Photograph showing R.A. Duff and Victor Trumper (on right) of the Australian Cricket Team, going out to bat at the start of the Australian second innings, Bramall Lane, Sheffield, July 1902

Pallas mastiff bat, Vespertilio molossus. Vespertilio molossus Pall. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Sebastian Leitner after an illustration by Jacques de Seve from Johann Christian

Lesser false vampire bat, Megaderma spasma. Vespertilio spasma Linn. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Hermann Jakob Tyroff from Johann Christian Daniel Schrebers Animal Illustrations after

Robert Abel, Surrey and England cricketer
Robert (Bobby) Abel, Surrey and England cricketer, nicknamed The Guv nor. Date: 1890s

Lady cricketer 1902
A strapping young woman wielding a bat when organised ladies cricket was still in its infancy. Artist: Dudley Hardy Date: 1902

M. C. C. Cricket tour in Australia
Fingleton batting for New South Wales, hit by a rising ball from Voce. Bradman supports him; the Nawab of Pataudi is picking up his bat, while Ames and Jardine are walking across

Plecotus sp. long-eared bat
A long-eared bat in flight (a microbat belonging to the Vespertilionidae family of vesper or evening bats). Photograph published in Bats by Phil Richardson, a Natural History Museum publication, 2002

A Climbing Turn on the Bat Bantam. Original fine pencil drawing (27cm x 36cm) reproduced in Flight 7 April 1921. Roderic Hill drawing. Date: 1921

The Woman Who Called It A Tennis Bat At Wimbledon! By Alfr
A humorous illustration in the style of H. M. Bateman of a lady making a social faux pas whilst watching a game of tennis at Wimbledon

Various Bats / Fullarton
Various species of bat : 1 Cayenne 2 Notch-eared 3 + 4 Slender 5 + 6 Rufous bat

Shorteared Bat (Bewick)
SHORT-EARED BAT vespertilio murinus can be distinguished from the long-eared bat by the fact that its ears are shorter. Also its twice the size

Pallas tube-nosed fruit bat, Nyctimene cephalotes. Vespertilio cephalotes Pall. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Nussbiegel after an illustration by Johann Bernhard Gottfried Hopfer

Jack Hobbs and Herbert Sutcliffe, cricketers, coming out to bat. They formed an opening partnership for the England team between 1924 and 1930. circa 1920s

Chiroptera bat heads and faces
Chiroptera bats: Brown long-eared bat, Plecotus auritus 1, 2, lesser long-eared bat, Nyctophilus geoffroyi 3, lesser false vampire bat, Megaderma spasma 4, big-eared woolly bat

Lockheed T-33A Shooting Star 35029
Hellenic Air Force - Lockheed T-33A-1-LO Shooting Star 35029 (msn 580-8368, ex 53-5029 buzz number TR-029), at Souda Bat AB, Crete. Date: circa 1995

The Witches Sabbath or The Witches, 1797-1798, by Goya
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828). Spanish painter. The Witches Sabbath or The Witches, 1797-1798. Lazaro Galdiano Museum. Madrid. Spain

The Witches Sabbath, 1797-1798, by Goya
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828). Spanish painter. The Witches Sabbath, 1797-1798. Lazaro Galdiano Museum. Madrid. Spain

Advert, Great Player's cigarettes, with cricketers
Advert, Great Player's Medium Navy Cut cigarettes, with caricatures of cricketers (cards to collect) Date: 1926

La Fete Bat Son Plein
This illustration depicts a party in full swing, with a host or supervisor graciously welcoming a fashionably dressed young lady, accompanied with an older gentleman

H H Stephenson and Billy Caffyn, English cricketers
H H Stephenson and Billy Caffyn, the only two English cricketers who visited both America and Australia Date: 1863

Women's summer costumes by Hygeia
Women's Boating, Cricket, Tennis and Tricycle Summer Costumes by Hygeia Date: 1888

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