Tennis Match, Buckinghamshire

Photograph taken 1896 - 1920 © Reproduced by permission of Historic England Archive ref: BB98/05518

A group playing a doubles match in lawn tennis. Women's clothing became far less bulky at the end of the Victorian period. This meant that they could move more freely and take up new activities such as playing tennis.

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Buckinghamshire Princes Risborough

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Edwardian (1902 - 1913)

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The Comptometer room at the Stratford Co-operative Society, showing girls and boys working on model 'E' comptometers. The comptometer, invented in 1887 by American, Dor Felt, was the first successful manual calculating machine. Many of the boys and girls look very young to be at work. The school leaving age was only raised to 14 in the Education Act of 1918 so they could well have been younger than that.

Tennis Match, Buckinghamshire

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