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Description: | inscription, handwritten, BOWLS AT THE MARSDEN WELFARE GROUND IS SUBJECT
TO INTERMITTENT BLASTS FROM
FOG HORN. HOME PLAYERS HAVE GOT USED TO THIS
BUT -
IT HAS ITS DISADVANTAGES
TO VISITING PLAYERS
WHO ARE OFT TAKEN
UNAWARES.
BOS
Cartoon about events and people at the Whitburn Colliery Welfare Scheme, which comprises of a centre at Horsley Hill in South Shields and another at Lighthouse Field in Marsden Village. The cartoon was drawn by Joseph Foreman, who used the pseudonym 'Bos'. It is undated but probably dates to about the 1930s. The cartoon features Will Atkinson, the Treasurer and playing member for both the cricket and football; Mr Jacob Bell J.P., the Welfare Secretary; George Sowerby, the Horsley Hill Groundsman; 'Little Dicky' Robinson, who looks after the Junior Football team at Marsden; the bowls 'stalwart', George Pritchard and his son, Robert of the Football Committee and one of the footballers, Jack Grayson.
Material: paper | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | emu.ecatalogue.socialhistory.352001 | Go to resource |
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