Written on card with blue ballpoint pen: “Shannon Tennis Courts About 1908 Players left to right . Mr Oglivy, _ , A.H. Richards, M.H. Schmidt, Mr Box Miss May Dunckley, Flo Dunckley and Miss Compton.”
Shannon Tennis Courts, c.1908. Copied from a publication (not identified) onto 1/2 Plate Film.
See also s2002.047.0001 3 prints made from this negative.
Information in book – “From Bush & Swamp”, page 152 states - The Shannon Tennis Club was formed in 1908, when a group of people leased some bowling club land, and laid two grass courts. {Outgrown by 1923 so section in Vance Street purchased for Tennis Club}
1 B&W Negative (large, taped to card)
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