A group portrait inside the tennis court at Hardwick House, showing one of the group holding a tennis racket

Date:
Apr 1896
Location:
Hardwick House, Hardwick Road, Whitchurch-on-Thames, South Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire
Reference:
BL13527A
Type:
Photograph (Negative)
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Description

The tennis court was probably built by builder J Bickley. It is now the home of the Hardwick House Tennis Club where the game of real tennis is played. The term 'real tennis' was first used at the end of the 19th century to distinguish it from the recently invented lawn tennis.

Content

This is part of the Series: HBL01/01 Series Of Photographic Negatives And Prints; within the Collection: HBL01 The Bedford Lemere Collection

Rights

Source: Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Builder: Bickley, Joseph

Keywords

Real Tennis Court, Tennis Court