Block:English Baseball in Berkshire, Wiltshire on July 28 1881
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| Data | “Base ball” was one of the treats awaiting children of the Newbury (Berkshire) Primitive Methodist Sunday School on a special school excursion to Marlborough Forest at Savernake in Wiltshire, Britain's only privately-owned forest. A newspaper reported that, after traveling by train and wagon, “the forest was reached soon after ten; and an hour afterwards each child received a large bun and was supplied with lemon syrup. Cricket, swings, base ball, and other games were provided, and rambles were made to the mansion, the column, the ruins,, the king oak, and various green retreats and sylvan shades, for which the forest is well known.” |
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| Sources | Newbury Weekly News and General Advertiser, July 28, 1881, p. 5 |
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