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Grasmere: Grasmere Sports c1911
locality:-   Grasmere
civil parish:-   Lakes (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   recreation
10Km square:-   NY30

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BMW45.jpg  General view of the paddock, 1907
 
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BMW49.jpg  Start of a fell race.
 
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BMW48.jpg  Group of guides, 1876, l to r: Cartmel, W Pattinson, J Birkett, ?, W Irwin, W Greenop, J Greenop, R Jackson.
 
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BMW51.jpg  Start of a hound trail.
 
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BMW53.jpg  Stephen Walker's hounds, 1900.
 
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BMW52.jpg  Group of wrestlers, 1895, l to r: J Scott, M Steadman, T Kennedy, G Lowden, H Clarke, G Steadman, J Fleming Green.
 
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BMW50.jpg  Hexham Clarke throwing G Steadman, 1900
 
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BMW56.jpg  Hexham Clarke and George Steadman wrestling.
 
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BMW54.jpg  J Strong and H Clarke, wrestling, 1901.
 
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BMW55.jpg  Pole leaping.
 
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BMW47.jpg  Celebrated pole leapers, l to r: Major Machell, Mrs Machell, R D Dickinson, M H Dickinson, Captain Higgin Birket, Mrs Searight, A B Dunlop; 1906
 
The source of the pictures is a compilation of notes and pictures published in 1911. The date range of the pictures is from 1870s-1910s.

Machell, Hugh W: 1911: Some Records of the Annual Grasmere Sports: Thurnham, Charles and Sons (Carlisle, Cumberland) &Simpkin, Marshall and Co (London)
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