Cricket Bat

Date1900 - 1910

DimensionsOverall: 10.5 x 33 cm
Thickness: 3.5 cm

Credit LineGift of Netta Brandon, London, Ontario, 2000

Object number2000.005.002

Label TextLondon’s first recorded game of cricket occurred in 1836 when the community was 10 years old. The city fielded winning teams. In 1926, London’s Ontario Hospital won the Ontario Hospitals Challenge cup. Three years earlier, they also won the C. S. Hyman trophy, though the team’s name is not engraved on it. You will find the Hyman Tannery in the “Industry and Agriculture” section.

NameBat, Cricket