Bats Collection

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

Bats in the Belfry 19C
Bats in one of their typical homes, a belfry

Can Openers, Skewers Etc
Can openers, sharpening steels, cutlet bats/beaters, larding pins, trussing needles, hatchet, skewers and steak tongs

How Some Englishmen thought we were going to win the war
Humorous cartoon showing Englishmen, armed with cricket bats, golf clubs and rugby balls giving the Hun a good thrashing - a satirical view on how some thought World War One could be won in

Varney the Vampire
Fiction : Varney The Vampire or The Feast of Blood book cover

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

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

Fairies Hunt Bats
Bats are hunted by fairies for their wings

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

Middlebrough Cricket
The Middlesbrough cricket team pose for a photograph on their ground; players wear a variety of check and striped shirts, caps and hats, and carry bats or balls

At the Oval / Ally Sloper
Ally Sloper bats at the Oval against Australia, dressed in medieval armour for protection

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

The Master Jack Hobbs - Surrey and England Cricketer
The Master Jack Hobbs (1882-1963) - Surrey and England Cricketer - advertising card for Force cricket bats. Universally regarded by experts as one of the greatest batsmen in the entire history of

Hobbs and Rhodes, Australian cricketers
Cricketers Hobbs and Rhodes who established a first wicket Test record of 323 tour of Australia Date: 1912

Comic postcard, Little boys and vicar. Please sir, we re forming a cricket club. Will you let us have one of the bats the verger says you have in your belfry? Date: 20th century

Five table tennis players, three posing with their trophies. Date: c. 1935
Five table tennis players, three posing with their trophies. Date: c.1935

Bat volute shell, Cymbiola vespertilio (Bats wing volute, Voluta vespertilio). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder

W G Grace, some of his cricket bats and balls
W G Grace, legendary cricketer -- some of his bats and balls. late 19th century

Plate commemoration, W G Grace, Century of Centuries
Plate commemoration of the cricketer W G Grace, Century of Centuries. 1895

Curtis British Entomology Plate 417
Siphonoptera: Ceratophyllus elongatus = Ischnopsyllus elongatus (Yellow Bat?s Flea) [Plant: Erigeron acer (Erigeron acre, Blue Fleabane)] Date: 1824-39

The Bats Wing - Godshill, Isle of Wight, Hampshire
The Bats Wing - Tearoom and Gifts and Antiques shop at Godshill, Isle of Wight, Hampshire. circa 1930s

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

Imaginary inhabitants of the planet Pluto. In perpetual twilight, and fiercely cold compared to Earth, fur-covered bats would be the best equipped life form, dwelling underground. Date: 1940

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

Cricket - Run-It-Out card game - 6 Runs
Run-It-Out card game - 6 Runs. mid-20th century

Victorian child with cricket bat, Otley, Yorkshire
Studio portrait of a Victorian child with cricket bat, Otley, Yorkshire. circa 1860s

Fruit Bats / Common Flying / Large Flying Fox - Hanging from tree, with baby (Pteropus vampyrus). Vietnam. Distribution: S. Burma - Java, Philippines, Borneo, Timor. The largest Bat in the world

Hull Workhouse, Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire
A picture of what is presumably the cricket team of the Kingston-upon-Hull Incorporation workhouse in Hull, Yorkshire. The workhouse master

Six types of bat: Flying Fox, Vampire Bat, Parti-Coloured or Rearmouse, Long-Eared, Horseshoe Bat, and Flying Lemur Bat

Olympics / 1912 / Base Team
Baseball team photograph

Bat / Greater Horseshoe / Nl
Greater horse-shoe bat

Vampire Bats / Darwin
A vampire bat (desmodus d orbignyi) caught at the back of Darwins house in Chile, South America

Boy playing cricket on a greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

Christmas card in the shape of a cricket bat, with a batsman running. Date: circa 1890s

Headingley Orphan Homes, Leeds - Cricket Team
Boys cricket team at Headingley Orphan Homes, Leeds, with bats, stumps etc. Date: circa 1913

Fantastic Adventures - Toka and the man bats
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, February 1946, featuring the story Toka and the man bats by J. W. Pelkie. A beautiful young woman lies on the floor of a dark cave scared by a huge paranormal half man

Cricket - Run-It-Out card game - card back, red
Run-It-Out card game - card back, red. mid-20th century

Cricket - Run-It-Out card game - card back, blue
Run-It-Out card game - card back, blue. mid-20th century

Cricket - Run-It-Out card game - 3 Runs
Run-It-Out card game - 3 Runs. mid-20th century

Cricket - Run-It-Out card game - 1 Run
Run-It-Out card game - 1 Run. mid-20th century

Music cover, Bats in the Belfry by Billy Mayerl on a theme by Austen Croom-Johnson. 1935

Alice, Where Art Thou, Christmas card
Alice, Where Art Thou, comic interpretation of a popular song on a Christmas card, with two frogs in the moonlight. (1 of 3) Date: circa 1890s

Women with cricket bats Date: 1904

Group photo, LFB cricket team, District B, who won the cup in 1907. Date: 1907

Schoolgirl cricket players, WW1
Girls at a school in Scotland playing cricket during the First World War. The Tatler suggests they are ladies we expect to see at Lords in the coming days of sex equality. Date: 1915

Desmodus D Orbignyi. From: The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, under the command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N. during the years 1832 to 1836. Date: 1839

Baltic Copper Mine Cricket Club, Michigan, USA
Baltic Cricket Team - comprising of miners from Painesdale, Michigan, USA - played in the Copper (Houghton) County Cricket League, founded in 1906

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