#SportArchives does jumping around in the lab count? #forgivemeitsmonday
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I love this picture of a Knox Academy Sports day. In this interview with mother and daughter Trudy and Linda, Linda talks about her schooldays and being the daughter of a teacher at the school (Mr Grant). tinyurl.com/2ttkveat #SportArchives #Archive30 Knox Academy
One of the funnest items in our #SportArchives - but who pray tell was Alexander Clark? #APrizeWorthHaving #Archive30 #EasterEggs
#Archive30 today is #SportArchives . We celebrate it with an old image of one of the physical activities or games that were made on long journeys by ship. We have this amazing and funny picture. Do you want to play with us?
Then as now, it's always hectic at Lansdowne Road crossing when a match is on at the AVIVA Stadium! Archive view from a rugby day, c1960. #SportArchives #Archive30
Day 25 #Archive30 Today #SportArchives we wanted to share this picture “Regata Snipes 71637F MMB (Col. J. Maseras)”. Our archives are full of lots of sporting pictures: bit.ly/3ciTI8b
#Archive30 #SportArchives - no longer on the PE schedule, this 1907 photograph shows pupils practicing their Lance Drill.
The Bradford M&S cricket team, who with the last ball of the match were victorious over the Yorkshire Electricity Board team in 1951!
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Goliath Footwear, founded in 1880 by the Co-operative Wholesale Society, famously made lightweight football boots for Sir Stanley Matthews. He made several visits to the factory in Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire and put his name to a brand of boots. #SportArchives #Archive30
The theme for day 12 of #Archive30 is #SportArchives
These plans for a new ground for Manchester United Football Club in Old Trafford were submitted in 1909. At the first match played at the stadium the following February, it held a crowd of 80,000 people.
As well as the more well-known local sporting teams and associations, we also hold various items from smaller organisations, including the Royal Pigeon Racing Association (West Midland Region) and the Wolverhampton and District Table Tennis Association. #Archive30 #SportArchives
Who remembers playing netball at school? These are girls at Lady Manners School in Bakewell in the early 1900s enjoying the game. We don’t envy them having to play in those heavy skirts but love those extravagant bows in their hair!
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Today #Archive30 wants to hear about #SportArchives and we just love this photograph of St George's, University of London Athletics team - they have just won the United Hospital Athletics Club (which St George's won in 2022, and in 1868 and 1875) but do they look happy?
Also, love the shoes 🩰
Various sporting endeavours at what is now the Molineux Stadium and the grounds of our building, including running and bicycle races, and the steeplechase. #Archive30 #SportArchives
One of our recent accessions is this photograph of the Dundee Amateur Gymnastic Society from 1912. The team won the National Physical Recreation Society's 200 Guineas Challenge Shield in Sheffield on 15th June 1912.
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