Block:"Baste Balling" Featured at Village Whitsuntide Fair in 1830
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| Data | "Baste Balling" was listed in a newspaper notice as one of the diversions to be offered at the annual celebration of Whitsuntide in the village of Knowl Hill in Berkshire: "Whitsuntide Amusements...There will be a Cricket Match, at the Seven Stars, Knowl Hill, on Whit-Tuesday; wickets to be pitched at eleven o'clock.--Donkey Racing, Baste Balling for Ribbons, and a great variety of other amusements." |
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| Sources | Reading Mercury and Oxford Gazette, May, 17, 1830, p.1 |
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