The Rugby Racket

@PFdn_Archives That is a fantastic drawing!

Rules of House singing competition 1893

New Big School - now Macready

School House in the 1850s

1880s Football with one of the earliest rubber bladders

@PFdn_Archives It's a slide viewer, you slot you slide in and it magnifies it for you.

One of my favourite pieces of equipment.

Cricket Score Book showing the 'Tom Brown' match 1841. Thomas Hughes was opening bat for Rugby.

Recollections of Rugby School in 1806 by Charles John Hume, 1806-1816 in Bucknill (now extinct) and Town.

@doctoruprichard You're welcome "Notes on the characters and incidents depicted by the master hand of Tom Hughes in Tom Brown's schooldays by Selfe, Sydney" is an interesting read on how closely the …

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These hands are from the 18th century clock on top of School House. In "Tom Brown's School Days" Tom climbs onto the roof and carves his name on the hands and stops the clock. The name T Hughes is vi…