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WILLIAM H. SLATTER
Recollections of Lord's and the Marylebone Cricket Club
[London]: privately printed, [1914]. 8vo., mounted photograph showing the ground plan in 1814, 1864, and 1914, original printed wrappers (staples perished, newly sewn, one corner tip torn away), red cloth case. Provenance: A.L. Ford (with tipped-in note, on paper headed "Gwynallt, Lynmouth, Devon", reading: "With best wishes, from A.L. Ford, 12/6/14").
A fascinating inside view of Lord's, Slatter being "first employed as an attendant in the Pavilion dressing rooms in 1863" at "barely twelve years of age". His memoirs cover a fifty year period, and even record the date, 1868, when a "mowing machine" was first used. "Mr. Robert Grimston ... had a great objection to its use, so that when he was in evidence, the machine had to be put in the cart shed" (p. 30). Padwick 1019.
Recollections of Lord's and the Marylebone Cricket Club
[London]: privately printed, [1914]. 8vo., mounted photograph showing the ground plan in 1814, 1864, and 1914, original printed wrappers (staples perished, newly sewn, one corner tip torn away), red cloth case. Provenance: A.L. Ford (with tipped-in note, on paper headed "Gwynallt, Lynmouth, Devon", reading: "With best wishes, from A.L. Ford, 12/6/14").
A fascinating inside view of Lord's, Slatter being "first employed as an attendant in the Pavilion dressing rooms in 1863" at "barely twelve years of age". His memoirs cover a fifty year period, and even record the date, 1868, when a "mowing machine" was first used. "Mr. Robert Grimston ... had a great objection to its use, so that when he was in evidence, the machine had to be put in the cart shed" (p. 30). Padwick 1019.
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