- Title: ENGLAND: Game, set and memories
- Date: 30th November 1976
- Summary: A China figure dated 1884 which is though to be of William Renshaw seven times Wimbledon Champion. A Bronze figure of the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII) holding a tennis rocket. A fifty year old metal lawn tennis racket strung with wire.......... An original sphairistike racket. Towards the end of the last century the game of lawn tennis was so popular that articles were manufactured with a tennis theme. A Billy Jean racket. Various fashions of tennis in the late 19, early twentieth century Old scrap book of showing newspaper cuttings, old programmes pictures etc. Picture of the old 'Wimbledon' in Worple Road pictured in 1921. Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: Wimbledon. All England Tennis Club
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- Country: United Kingdom
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