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... clothes accidentally catching fire. Shrove Tuesday was celebrated in several places by the old English game of foot-ball. Tradition states that foot-ball originated from the fact of one of the Danish Kings being decapitated in the town where his head was kicked ...
... THE 31ST OP JULY, 1851, (By the kind Permission of J. G. REBOW, Esq.,) in WIVE N H O E PARK. GAMES OF CRICKET, TRAP-BAT, FOOT-BALL, QUOITS,* VAULTING, &c. ARCHERY FOR LADIES AND GENTLEAIE?.. RUSTIC SPORTS. A Number of Velocipedes wiU be on the Ground-Boats ...
... INSTITUTION, On Tuesday, August 10, 1852 (By the kind Permission of ?? G. REBOW. Esq.), IN WIVENHOE PARK. Cricket, Trap-bat, Foot-ball, Quoits, Archery, Boat-racing & Rustic Sports AN ENGAGEMENT HAS BEEN MADE WITH THE DISTINGUISHED SHAPCOTT FAMILY, FOR THEIR ...
... ILL take ?? ° U THURSUAY NEXT, July 21st IN WIVENHOE PARK, by permission of J. G. REBOW, Esq. CRICKET. ARCHERY, TRAP-BAT, FOOT-BALL, QUOITS, VAULTING, &c, PROMENADE CONCERTS, A GRAND DISPLAY OF FIREWORKS, by Mr. MORTRAM, Pyrotechnic Artist to Her Majesty's ...
... consisting of Electrical Kite, Russian Infernal Machine, Balloons, Coloured Fires, d-c. THE RURAL SPORTS will comprise Cricket, Football, Trap-Bat; and Prizes will be awarded fur Leaping, Foot-Racfn*. Jkc—Pklsca ~iH Uc i. the most successful Lady and Gentlemen ...
... Electrical Kite, Russian Infernal Machine, Balloons, Coloured Fires, ...
... delivered an address in the course of the afternoon. Footballs for the Crimea ! — Mr. Gilbert, of Rugby, has just executed an order for some officers in H. M. 33rd and 39th Foot, for four footballs with a reserve of bladders, adapted to stand hard and ...
... critics, and r nearly all have been objects of great attraction at the Academy and other exhibitions for the last few years:— Football, by T. Webster, • ] R.A., the engraver's picture; Nelson in his Cabin, by Lucy, the en- graver's picture ; The Bread of Life ...
... Portraits of Colonel Inglis, the Commandant atLucknow, and Mrs. Inglis and Family. Sketches in Manilla: Marriage Procession, Football Playing. Map of India. Presents from the Kings of Siam to Queen Victoria. COLOURED SUPPLEMENT: Peshawur, Benares, Delhi— ...
... Portraits of Colonel Inglis, the Commandant at Lucknow, and Mrs. Inglis and Family. Sketches in Manilla: Marriage Procession ; Football playing. Map of India: Presents from the Kings of Siam to Queen Victoria. COLOURED SUPPLEMENT: Peshawur; Benares; Delhi, ...
... of Colonel Inglis, the Commandant at Lucknow, and Mrs. Inglis and Faniilv. Ski.iciiks in Manilla: Marriage Procession ; Foot-ball Playing. Map of India. Presents from the Kings of Siam to Queen Victoria. COLOURED SUPPLEMENT ■ Peshawur; Benares; Delhi ...
... Quadrille Band, for the grand BAL AL FRESCO. There will be BOATS on the LAKE, a grand CRICKET MATCH, Droitwich v. Worcester, Football, Qvjoits, Bowling, Running, Leaping, and other Old English Sports and Pastimes, for whioh Prizes will be given to the successful ...