Stumps Collection

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

Sport / Cricket / W G Grace
W G Grace, ready to receive the ball

Stretcher party crossing the Menin Road at Gheluvelt, by Gunner F J Mears, BEF, Royal Garrison Artillery (d. 1929). Date: 1914-1918

A Googlie by Lawson Wood
A bear batsman looks concerned as a determined monkey bowls a googlie at his batting partner. Date: 1930

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

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

A Young Batsman
A young batsman

Comic postcard, woman at the races with bookie, placing a bet both ways Date: 20th century

A G Pawson - Captain of Oxford University Cricket Team for the 1910 Varisty match against Cambridge. Date: 1910

The Last Light Of Evening
A landscape etching of some large, gnarled trees beside some hutting rocks and stumps, during the last light of evening. Date: circa 1917

Herbert Sutcliffe, Cricketer
Herbert Sutcliffe (1894-1978) was a professional cricketer who represented Yorkshire and England as an opening batsman. He was part of the M.C.C

Village Sports, Howzat Umpire, Comical Cats by Louis Wain
Village Sports, Howzat Umpire, Comical Cats playing Cricket by Louis Wain Date: 1904

Tree stumps in no man's land at sunset, Somme, WW1
Tree stumps in no man's land at sunset, Somme, First World War. 1914-1918

German trench, Somme, northern France, WW1
German trench with dead soldiers and burnt tree stumps, in front of the Bois de la Vache, south east of Eclusier, on the Somme, northern France

THE MOTHER EARTH WORMTO ITS WORMLET: Now, then, Florizel, that just serves you right. How often have I told you to keep away from the wicket during these Test Matches! Date: 1926

Cartoon, The Last Wicket - The Boer War is compared to cricket with a Boer batting and Kitchener as wicket keeper. Date: 1901

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

Pond at Thiepval, by Richard Carline, WW1
Pond at Thiepval, Somme, watercolour by Richard Carline, First World War. 1918

A F A (Dick) Lilley - Cricketer for Warwickshire and England. Held the keeping gloves for England for 13 straight seasons Date: 1905

A Young cricketer preparing to bowl
A young bowler, Master Charles Beck, preparing to deliver a wicked off-break... circa 1880

Family on a wet excursion to the beach at Weston-Super-Mare
A family on a (rather wet!) day out to the beach in August at Weston-Super-Mare in Somerset, England. The two boys are hoping the rain will cease long enough to put the cricket bat (and stump)

POLLING A WILLOW 1873
Workmen polling (pruning) a willow tree on a riverbank. Date: 1873

Flares in the night sky over a battlefield, WW1
Flares in the night sky over a battlefield during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Insect carrying a stump on a New Year card
Insect carrying a stump on a comic New Year card -- A Cricket Stump. Date: circa 1890s

Mont Kemmel (Kemmelberg), Belgium, WW1
Mont Kemmel (Kemmelberg), Belgium, with damaged tree stumps and debris on the ground during WW1. Date: 1914-1918

View of Thiepval from Thiepval Wood, Western Front, WW1
View of Thiepval from Thiepval Wood on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

British soldiers digging a trench, Western Front, WW1
British soldiers digging a communication trench through what was once Delville Wood on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Cricket in the 1770S
Cricket as played in the 1770s

Aerial view, ruins of Dranoutre, Belgium, WW1
Aerial view, ruins of Dranoutre, West Flanders, Belgium, on 21 August 1918, with tree stumps visible. Date: 1918

Aerial view, shelling near Dranoutre, Belgium, WW1
Aerial view, a shelled area near Dranoutre, West Flanders, Belgium, on 21 August 1918, with tree stumps visible. Date: 1918

Reninghelst-Clytte, Belgium, WW1
Reninghelst-Clytte, road leading to Scherpenberg, Belgium, with damaged trees during WW1. Date: 1914-1918

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

The Nose Game - Inquisitive Nose B8, Denotes Spirit of Enquiry. 1927

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

Susi - rain stops play. 1950s

Cricket - Run-It-Out card game - Stumped
Run-It-Out card game - Stumped - Hows That? mid-20th century

Cricket - Run-It-Out card game - Run Out
Run-It-Out card game - Run Out - Hows That? mid-20th century

Caricature of Benjamin Disraeli -- His Last Innings
Caricature of Benjamin Disraeli, Conservative politician, on losing the General Election to the Liberal party -- His Last Innings! Bowled Gladstone! 1880

Alfred Mynn / Cricketer
ALFRED MYNN Date: 1807 - 1861

Zena Dare (1887 1975), English singer and actress, modelling suitable clothing for cricket. 1906

Cricket a hot return
The ball is returned straight back to the bowler giving him a wicket. Date: 1886

Cricket Wicket Keeping
A cricketer demonstrating how to wicket keep. The correct way. Date: 1888

Cricket a batsman dealing with a full pitch
A pokey batsman dealing with a high-dropping full-pitch. Date: 1888

Cricket Crafty Bowling
A bowler attacking the batsman with some crafty bowling. Date: circa 1890

Cricket The Underhand Bowling Technique
A bowler is shown to be demonstrating the underhand bowling technique. Date: 1892

Cricket Forward Play Shot
Batsman showing the forward played shot. Date: 1892

A cricket match of Greenwich Pensioners
A cricket match had been hosted between the greenwich pensioners it was the one armed pensioners v one legged pensioners. Date: 1848

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

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