Pitch Collection

Cricket in an English Village
A classic English village scene of cricket played under the watchful gaze of the church steeple. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

London Stock Exchange - The Stock Jobbers Pitches. Date: early 1960s

Fidel Castro / Baseball
Fidel Castro stands on the pitchers mound at the Cerro, Havanas baseball stadium, where he often went to pitch an innings. *UNAVAILABLE FOR USE IN ASIA AT PRESENT*

A Spot of Bother Ayresome Park Middlesbrough. March 1973 1973

Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA - Memorial Stadium, University of Minnesota. Date: 1939

Association Cricket Ground, Perth, Western Australia, with a crowd of spectators watching a match. Date: circa 1909

Tulane Stadium, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Tulane Stadium (known as The Sugar Bowl), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. The annual sugar bowl American football game was played here from 1935 onwards. The stadium was demolished in 1979-1980

1909 FA Cup Final: Manchester United beats Bristol City 1-0
The Football Association Cup Final at the Crystal Palace, where Manchester United beat Bristol City by one goal to nil. Players including A. Turnbull, C. Roberts, W

Compton and Edrich leave the Oval pitch, 1953
Photograph showing the two English batsman, Denis Compton and Bill Edrich, leaving the pitch at the Oval Cricket Ground, London, 19th August 1953

Aerial view of Stamford Bridge football ground, London
Aerial view of Stamford Bridge football ground, home of Chelsea Football Club, SW London, with a match in progress and a large number of spectators. Date: 1922

Texas Longhorns with steer mascot, USA
Texas Longhorns (American football team) with their mascot Big Boy, a Longhorn steer), Austin, Texas, USA. Date: 1941

Lords Cricket Ground as a Goose Farm, 1915
Photograph showing the pitch and pavilion of Lords Cricket Ground, during the grounds use as a farm for rearing geese in World War I

Women playing hockey
A womens hockey match -- they are wearing long skirts, which must be rather difficult to run in

Cricket Field, Campbell College, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Date: 1904

Muddy Soccer Goalie
An amateur game of football played on a very muddy pitch: the goalkeeper catches the ball in mid-air

Industrial School, Buxton, near Norwich, Norfolk
Boys and dog stand on the football pitch of the Buxton Industrial School near Norwich, Norfolk, established in 1855 to hold 100 boys. From 1933 it became Red House Farm Approved School

The 1934 Test Match at Lords: Verity wins the game
Verity winning the match for England, sending down a ball to Woodfall, the Australian captain. On the third day of the second test match

Chicago Cubs (Wrigley Field) stadium, Chicago, USA
Chicago Cubs Park (Wrigley Field) baseball stadium, Chicago, Illinois, USA, home of Chicagos National League Baseball Club. Date: circa 1930s

WW1 - Lords Cricket Ground used as a Goose Farm, 1915
Photograph showing the pitch of the Marylebone Cricket Ground (Lord s), during the grounds use as a farm for rearing geese in World War I

The F. A. Cup Final at Wembley Stadium, 1923
Aerial photograph of Wembley Stadium before the start of the 1923 F.A. Cup Final between Bolton Wanderers and West Ham United

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

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

County Cricket Match in 1939 - a wicket for Gover of Surrey
County Cricket Match at the Oval in 1939 - a wicket has just fallen, caught behind. The bowler appears to be the Surrey player Alf Gover. Date: 1939

Petticoat Lane market trader
A market trader at Petticoat Lane on a Sunday morning, extolling the virtues of his shirts Date: 1945

Pitch Lake - La Brea, Trinidad
The huge Pitch Lake at La Brea, Trinidad - source for the pitch used in road-covering ashphalt. The asphalt from the Lake is of economic value to Trinidad and Tobago

The King with the English cricket team
King George V, accompanied by Lord Cromer, President of the M.C.C and Mr. R.E.S Wyatt, the captain, shakes hands with the English cricke players at Lord s. Left to right are:- Mr. C.F Walters, H

Natural Trumpet on Own
The NATURAL TRUMPET is only half the length of the Horn, consequently its pitch is an octave higher : it is bent in quite a different way

Cricket Player / 1929
A cricket player raises his cap as he retires from the pitch

Rolling the Pitch
Rolling the pitch in preparation for the cricket season in the West Indies

Piper J-3 Cub G-AFFJ with the Everell single-blade propeller
Piper J-3 Cub G-AFFJ (msn 1165), seen with the Everell patented single-blade automatic variable- pitch propeller. The single propeller blade was balanced by a counterweight and was free to pivot

Trinidad and Tobago - Pitch Lake at La Brea - Loading Pitch - British West Indies.. This particular truck has an M.G.W (Maximum Gross Weight) of 3 tonnes. Date: circa 1910s

Comic postcard, Our Demon Bowler Date: 20th century

Men playing toss and pitch, Victorian period

Toss and Pitch game

Church Avenue and Cricket Club, Harborne, Birmingham
Church Avenue and Cricket Club, Harborne, south-west Birmingham Date: circa 1904

Harborne Cricket Club, south-west Birmingham
Harborne, south-west Birmingham - Cricket Ground. The Cricket Club was founded in May, 1868 and is one of the largest in the Midlands. Date: 1907

Pitch and Toss gambling game, Victorian period

FA Cup Final, West Bromwich Albion v Birmingham City, at Wembley Stadium in 1931 Date: 1931

WW2, Seasons Greetings Card
A WW2 seasons greetings card from Bert Copley, The Entertainer, the image shows the man in a pitch black surrounding, shouting Put that light out! Date: circa 1940s

White Star Line, RMS Olympic, pitch pine deck section. 12ins. 3ins. 5ins

Football pitch at Crystal Palace, South London, where the FA Cup Finals were played from 1895 to 1914 Date: circa 1910s

Hampden Park Football Ground, Glasgow, Scotland Date: 1934

Crowd invading pitch, FA Cup Final, Wembley, 1923
Crowd invading the football pitch at the FA Cup Final, Wembley Date: 1923

Last minute in the Football Match, it's now or never
The last minute in the Football Match, it's now or never Date: 1898

Seaside House, Llanfairfechan
A photograph of a unique seaside house with large twin gables and a long sloped pitch, situated at Llanfairfechan, North Wales, designed by Welsh architect partnership, North and Padmore

William Lillywhite, father of modern cricket Date: 1863

Billy Steel, Derby County and Scotland footballer
Billy Steel, inside left footballer for Derby County and Scotland Date: 1949

Warrington Rugby Team, strategizing ahead of their first ever match at Wembley Stadium, the Rugby League Cup Final against Huddersfield due to be played on May 6th. Huddersfield won. Date: 1933

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