- Object numberM.2015.450
- TitleSouth Africa in England, 1947
- Date1947-04-30 - 1947-09-06
- CreatorThe Sport and General Press Agency Ltd (photographer)
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- Size45.5 cm x 52 cm (including mount)
- DescriptionBlack and white group portrait mounted on card of South African Cricket Team. Players are in whites and tour blazers with 1 gentleman in a suit. Located in Harris Garden in front of gates, Pavilion can be seen in background.
- Display captionSouth African Team Photograph in the Harris Garden, Lord’s, 1947 M.2015.450 Scrapbook of South African Tour to England, 1947 A.2016.15 Scarf advertising 1948 MCC Tour to South Africa, 1948/-49 M.2014.91 Gone with the Cricketers by John Arlott, 1949 TL.2009.312 Although his report of the tour in Gone with the Cricketers makes no mention of it, John Arlott writes in his autobiography Basingstoke Boy the effects of travelling to South Africa: `four months of deep, new experiences for one still so relatively ignorant of many matters’. Writing about himself in the third person: `J.A’s stomach turned over’ witnessing wanton cruelty on a street corner and he describes the need to visit a township twice – the second time with MCC Secretary Billy Griffith - `to ensure that he had not been mistaken in the appalling degree of degradation’. Upon his return he freely voiced his opinions on BBC’s Any Questions only to be upbraided by `officials’ for the strength of his opinion.
- AssociationSouth African Cricket Team (subject) 1947-04-30 - 1947-09-06
Terence Anthony Harris (subject) 1947-04-30 - 1947-09-06
Douglas MacPherson Ovenstone (subject) 1947-04-30 - 1947-09-06
Denis Warburton Begbie (subject) 1947-04-30 - 1947-09-06
Vivian Ian Smith (subject) 1947-04-30 - 1947-09-06
Lindsay Tuckett (subject) 1947-04-30 - 1947-09-06
John Bruce (Snr) Plimsoll (subject) 1947-04-30 - 1947-09-06
Leslie William Payn (subject) 1947-04-30 - 1947-09-06
John Dixon Lindsay (subject) 1947-04-30 - 1947-09-06
George Murray Fullerton (subject) 1947-04-30 - 1947-09-06
Oswald Charles Dawson (subject) 1947-04-30 - 1947-09-06
Dennis Victor Dyer (subject) 1947-04-30 - 1947-09-06
Bruce Mitchell (subject) 1947-04-30 - 1947-09-06
Alan Melville (subject) 1947-04-30 - 1947-09-06
Algernon Sidney Frames (subject) 1947-04-30 - 1947-09-06
Arthur Dudley Nourse (subject) 1947-04-30 - 1947-09-06
Kenneth George Viljoen (subject) 1947-04-30 - 1947-09-06
Norman Bertram Fleetwood Mann (subject) 1947-04-30 - 1947-09-06
Athol Matthew Burchell Rowan (subject) 1947-04-30 - 1947-09-06 - Related objectsM.2015.827 : South African Team 1947
- ExhibitionsSouth Africa : Marylebone Cricket Club Museum
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