Sevenoaks, Recreation Ground 1895
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More about this scene
One suspects that these groups of children, with one accompanying nursemaid, seated on the benches and the steps of the canopied bandstand, have been induced to pose by the photographer, to complement this carefully-composed photograph. The houses beyond stood in the Dartford Road. The ground was given to the town in perpetuity in the late 18th century by the 3rd Duke of Dorset. It is possibly the oldest cricket ground in England, with the first fully reported match between Kent and Sussex taking place here on 9 September 1734.
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