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Scrapbook of newspaper cuttings, photographs and scorecards compiled by Molly Hide, relating to women's cricket between 1948 and 1951. Includes reports on domestic women's cricket matches in England, articles on women's cricket weeks at Colwall, articles on the England Women tour of Australia and New Zealand in 1948-1949, photographs of the Surrey Women team in 1948 which Hide captained, photograph of Hide with the South XI team in 1949, photographs of Hide playing for M E Maclagan's XI in 1949, articles on Hide's attendance at Lord's for the Cricket Enquiry Committee in 1949, a complimentary pass issued by MCC to Hide allowing her to visit Lord's during the 1950 season, menu card for The Cricket Society (Northern Section) dinner in January 1950 at which Hide gave a toast, copy of The Cricket Society (Northern Section) booklet published in 1950, photograph of Hide with D C S Compton and W J Edrich at Chiswick Indoor Cricket School in 1950, invitation card and menu for a dinner to celebrate John Wisden and Co. Limited's centenary in 1950, articles on the Australian team which toured England in 1951, souvenir programme for Huddersfield Cricket Festival Week in 1950, photographs of Cricket Week in 1950, photographs of the Leatherhead and District XI vs. Molly Hide's XI match in 1950, photograph and articles of Hide practicing her batting, photographs of H P Crabtree teaching women how to bat during an Women's Cricket Association Indoor Coaching Course in March 1950. The scrapbook contains scorecards from the following matches (venues in brackets): 1948 Surrey and Sussex vs. Middlesex and Kent (Hove), Women's Cricket Association Home Counties vs. Rest of England (The Oval), Touring Team to Australia vs. Rest of England (Northampton; the scrapbook also contains photographs of the match) 1949 Miss M Hide's XI vs. Hindhead (Hindhead), Touring Team [England Women tour of Australia 1948-1949] vs. Rest of England (Old Trafford), Yorkshire and Lancashire vs. The Rest (Scarborough; the scrapbook also contains photographs of the match) 1950 Sussex and Middlesex vs. Surrey, Berkshire and Oxon (Eastbourne), Miss Maclagan's XI vs. Miss Hide's XI (Hove), Surrey vs. Women's Cricket Association (Mitcham), Hindhead vs. Miss Molly Hide's XI (Hindhead), South vs. Rest of England (The Oval; the scrapbook also contains photographs of both teams), An England XI vs. Rest of England (Southend-on-Sea), Surrey XI vs. Kent XI (Reigate Priory), Miss Molly Hide's England XI vs. Rest of England (Scarborough).

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