Cricket Collection (page 8)

Page from The Tatler reporting on a comedy cricket match which took place at the Oval. Bottom right image shows Fred Karno, music hall star

Combined Cricket Teams photo - Old Alleynians versus Dulwich College. Date: 1934

Group photo of players and ladies at the RAF Club Cricket Week, Eastbourne. Date: 1922

Reverend Frank Gillingham (1875-1953) - noted clergyman and cricketer - in cricket apparel walking back to the pavilion. His score of 201 for Essex versus Middlesex (as reported in this issue)

Cricket team in blazers by Fougasse
" This is the photograph of our cricket eleven, but I cannot think it really - does us justice." A cricket team suddenly look very different when a colour image reveals the rainbow spectrum

Cartoon, Out! (Disraeli and Gladstone)
Cartoon, Out! Gladstone as batsman is bowled out, and Disraeli as wicket keeper is back in the running. A cricketing analogy for the transfer of power in the wake of a General Election. Date: 1866

Victorian scrap, Boy in sailor suit with cricket bat. 19th century

Racecourse, cricket ground, football pitch, Shanghai, China
Aerial view of the racecourse with grandstand, cricket ground and football pitch, Shanghai, China. Date: 1920

Mr Libbys Juices, Grapefruit Juice
Libbys Happy Families Card Game, Mr. Libbys Juices, Grapefruit Juice. circa 1950s

The Most Brilliant Fourth of June at Eton, 1911
Double page spread from The Sphere reporting on the traditional Fourth of June celebrations at Eton College where parents and siblings assemble at the school for speeches, food

Jack Hobbs hitting a boundary for Surrey against Yorkshire
Jack Hobbs, legendary cricketer, hitting a boundary in a Surrey versus Yorkshire match. circa 1920s

Medieval bat and ball game
Man holding a ball about to hit it to a catcher in the game of club ball, 14th century, early version of baseball or criket

Medieval bat and ball games
Woman pitching a ball to a man with a bat in the game of club ball, 14th century (top), man holding a ball about to hit it to a catcher in the game of club ball, 14th century (middle)

Field cricket, Gryllus campestris (Acheta campestris). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from The British Miscellany, or Coloured figures of new, rare

Grey bush cricket, Platycleis grisea (Gray locust, Locusta grisea). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from The British Miscellany, or Coloured figures of new, rare

Corn cricket, Hetrodes pupus (Pupal locust, Gryllus pupus). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw

Indian locust, Gryllus indicus (Schistocerca gregaria?). Handcoloured lithograph from Carl Hoffmanns Book of the World, Stuttgart, 1848

Schizodactylus monstrosus, oilbird and guaco vine
Schizodactylus monstrosus cricket 1, oilbird, Steatornis caripensis 2, and Mikania guaco vine 3. Gryllon monstrueux, Guacharo, Guaco

Schizodactylus monstrosus and giant tobacco cricket
Schizodactylus monstrosus cricket 1, and giant tobacco cricket, Brachytrupes membranaceus 2. Handcoloured lithograph from John O

Exotic crickets and wasps
Eneoptera surinamensis cricket 1, bedbug species, Cimex corticatus 2, mammoth wasp, Megascolia maculata flavifrons? 3, and Pelecinus polyturator wasp 4. Handcoloured lithograph from John O

Learie Constantine and George Headley - test cricket 1939
Learie Nicholas Constantine, Baron Constantine, MBE (1901-1971), and George Headley of the West Indies head out to bat after tea at Lords during the 1939 test match between England

Lunch interval, Lords Cricket Ground, London
Lunch interval at Lords Cricket Ground, NW London, during a University Cricket Match. 1893

Leaving the cricket pavilion to bat. 1893

Garnett Family Cricket Team, 1876 -- all sons and cousins of Henry Garnett (1814-1897). They played against amateur teams in the north of England. Date: 1876

Group photo, Freddie Trueman, Ray Illingworth and others
Group photo, Freddie Trueman (centre), Ray Illingworth (left) and other members of the Yorkshire County cricket team, standing in front of a bar. Date: 1950s

Cricket Ground and Church, Whyteleafe, Surrey. Date: circa 1908

Hedley Verity, Yorkshire County and England cricketer. Date: 1934

H Sutcliffe, Yorkshire County and England cricketer. Date: 1934

C F Walters, Worcestershire County and England cricketer. Date: 1934

H H Gibbons, Worcestershire County cricketer. Date: 1934

F R Santall, Warwickshire County cricketer. Date: 1934

J H Parks, Sussex County cricketer. Date: 1934

James Langridge, Sussex County and England cricketer. Date: 1934

J C White, Somerset County and England cricketer. Date: 1934

A W Wellard, Somerset County cricketer. Date: 1934

W W Keeton, Nottinghamshire County cricketer. Date: 1934

E W Clark, Northamptonshire County and England cricketer. Date: 1934

A H Bakewell, Northamptonshire County and England cricketer. Date: 1934

R W V Robins, Middlesex County and England cricketer. Date: 1934

J H A Hulme, Middlesex County cricketer. Date: 1934

E W Dawson, Leicestershire County cricketer. Date: 1934

L G Berry, Leicestershire County cricketer. Date: 1934

E Paynter, Lancashire County and England cricketer. Date: 1934

J Iddon, Lancashire County cricketer. Date: 1934

B H Valentine, Kent County cricketer. Date: 1934

L E G Ames, Kent County and England cricketer. Date: 1934

A E Pothecary, Hampshire County cricketer. Date: 1934

J Arnold, Hampshire County and England cricketer. Date: 1934

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