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Scrapbook relating to women's cricket compiled by S M Swinburne, chairman of the Women's Cricket Association. Includes newspaper reports on the England tour to Australia in 1968-1969 and tour of Trinidad and Jamaica in 1970-1971, invitation for Swinburne to meet the sports minister Eldon Griffiths with the England team prior to the tour of Trinidad and Jamaica, copy of the official report for the West Indies tour in 1971 produced by the Women's Cricket Association, programme for a match at Chesterfield between an England Women's XI captained by Rachael Heyhoe and a Selected Women's XI captained by Audrey Disbury in 1970, Christmas cards sent to Swinburne, reports on a match between the England Women's World Cup XI and an Old England men's team captained by D C S Compton, articles relating to the bomb scare at Lord's during the England vs. West Indies Test match in 1973 which Swinburne attended, seating plan and menu cards for the annual Wrigley Cricket Foundation luncheon. The scrapbook contains scorecards from the following matches: 1961 Women's Cricket Association vs. The Rest (The Oval) 1962 Women's Cricket Association vs. The Rest (The Oval) 1965 Women's Cricket Association vs. The Rest (The Oval) 1970 An England XI vs. The Rest (Hastings) 1973 England Women's World Cup XI vs. Old England XI (The Oval)

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