The Rugby Racket

House Twenties (Rugby Football Teams) for Blake (Kilbracken) and School House in 1864.

@FaitbienGalthie @Frederic We didn't decide on a School team of twenty until 1867 and then fifteen in 1876.

A photograph taken before the kick off of a Rugby Football match the Sixth Form v The School in 1865.

@DCArchives Unfortunately there is no provenance with this photograph to tells us why the image was taken in this way.

A photograph of cricket being played on New Bigside in 1865. School Filed and the Rackets Courts can be seen in the background.

A photograph of T W Jex-Blake and family, 1863, when he was an Assistant Master at Rugby School and House Master of the house which is now named Kilbracken. He then went on to be Principal of Chelten…

#SomethingNew (recently rediscovered) Printing blocks for The Meteor and photographs of a sports day event. #Archive30

A mini Cassette Tape, hopefully one day we will find out what is on it. #Archive30

#ArchivePeople The first curator of the Art Museum was Thomas Mitchener Lindsay, Teacher of Drawing. He taught at the School from 1880-1907. As well as still holding some of the objects he would have…

#Archive30 here are some of our on display in our Museum representing: Cross Country, Fives, Cricket, Rugby and Rackets.

#ArchiveOutreach This year we have loaned two items to Museums for their exhibitions. @DesignMuseum have the nine caps artwork and @RugbyGallery have a piece of stained glass. #ArchiveObject #Designi…

One of our largest is the Death Cart which is on display in the Museum. When boys were injured on the football (Rugby) field it was used to carry them off to the Sanatorium. It was used up until the …