If you’re planning to go to the annual Shrovetide Football game in Ashbourne today, but you’re worried it might get a bit wet – this is what the game was like in 1925!
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If you’re planning to go to the annual Shrovetide Football game in Ashbourne today, but you’re worried it might get a bit wet – this is what the game was like in 1925!
Did you know we’re now on Twitter? Follow us on @FranklinArchive
As we await kick-off of the first Explore Your Archive week, here is a vigorous selection of images for sporting ladies and gentlemen.
D5459/2/23/9 Image from Grotesque Borders for Rooms & Halls, George M. Woodward & Thomas Rowlandson, 1799
D5459/3/11 A Mistake at New-Market, or Sport and Piety, George M. Woodward & Thomas Rowlandson, [1807]
D5459/2/23/14 Image from Grotesque Borders for Rooms & Halls: No 21, George M. Woodward & Thomas Rowlandson, 1800