Stoolball history
British Pathe stoolball archive - do you know more?
We need your help. British Pathe has a collection of archive material which shows, among others, stoolball photos and film clips dated 1940 and 1951, which make very interesting viewing. We want to know who is in the clips.
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Stoolball in Sussex, by M S Russell-Goggs
Sussex County Magazine published a detailed history of stoolball in its July 1928 edition, which sold for 6d. The article is reproduced here in full.
The history of stoolball
Records show that the game was played in 1450 and it is mentioned in the classic book Don Quixote.
Tales of stoolball from the WI
A book produced some 30 years ago, West Sussex as seen through the eyes of the WI, has some excellent articles including Village Stoolball by Enid Dunlop from the Funtington and West Stoke WI.
Recreating the first Kent v Sussex match
Players from the West Kent Ladies Stoolball League in 1998 re-enacted the first match played between Kent and Sussex, which took place 200 years before.
Stoolball through the ages
Photographs and images of stoolball being played from 1861 right through to today in our local schools.
The W W Grantham bat collection
Major W W Grantham, who did so much for stoolball after World War One, was known to have commissioned various bats as he travelled the world on cruise ships. John Price, NSA Chairman, spent five years spent tracking them down before, in summer 2007, they were found in the Sussex hamlet of Town Littleworth, very near the Grantham ancestral home of Balneath Manor.
