Kilmarnock Rugby Club 1st XV team dated 1904-1905 in honour of National Sporting Heritage Day and the Rugby World Cup Kilmarnock Rugby 🏉 Reference AA/DC74/4/2 #NSHD2019 #RWC2019

It's National Sporting Heritage Day today, so an opportunity to share some unique colour #archive #film of the pioneering Dick, Kerr's Ladies football team preparing to pay the French Ladies at Stretford in the 1950s #NSHD2019

Our entry for #NationalSportingHeritageDay of course has to be this from our #MetWomen100 exhibition, now extended to 25th October. #Met190 #100YearsStrong #tugofwar #WomensHealth #womenshealthIRL #archives #exploreyourarchives #NSHD2019 #shareyoursportingheritage

It’s National #SportingHeritage Day and Hutchesons' Grammar we’ve always been interested in Sport! Our volunteers are currently cataloguing our sports collections - they are a fascinating educational resource! We love this image from the Girls’ School Magazine from 1927 #NSHD2019

NATIONAL SPORTING HERITAGE DAY!
Hull, home to 2 top rugby league clubs!
Hull KR and Hull FC first locked horns in a competitive fixture at Craven Street in 1899..120 years ago!
Both clubs now host spectacular events and conferences giving your delegates the VIP feel!🤝
#NSHD2019

Today is National Sports Heritage Day. Help the clubs and groups to preserve the rich history of sport in the country. #NSHD2019

For National Sporting Heritage Day here are some of our student sports teams! 1950s Hockey, 1930s Netball and 1890s croquet. Which is definitely a proper sport, even if we didn't play it in school #NSHD2019 #archives

#Subbuteo was invented in 1947 by Peter Adolph, who lived at Langton Green nr. #TunbridgeWells . #FunFact he wanted to call his game ‘The Hobby’ but couldn't licence the name. So he named it after the Latin for Hobby Hawk which is Falco Subbuteo. #NSHD2019 Sporting Heritage

Our Oakham School girls badminton team from 1978 - 1979. #NSHD2019 #sportingheritage #badminton

Here’s my contribution to National Sporting Heritage Day: possibly the oldest #WatfordFC medal in existence, awarded to Watford Rovers aka West Herts FC’s Charlie Peacock on winning the Herts County Cup in 1892 #NSHD2019

Happy National Sports Heritage Day! This detail of a wallpaper frieze designed by John Hassall is one of many featured in a Sandersons pattern book of Nursery and Sporting scenes c1900. #NSHD2019

For a bit of #MondayMotivation and National Sporting Heritage Day we found this fantastic picture taken in the gymnasium at Fort George in the 1890s. #NSHD2019 #ExploreYourArchive

Can't miss the chance to show Dorothee Pullingers's connection to Sport Heritage #NSHD2019 . As Lady Supervisor at Vickers in WW1 Dorothee was responsible for the health and welfare of the female munition workers, including sporting activities such as the football team.

With the #AthleticsWorldChamps taking place in Doha, we've found this photo of our own athletics team from 40 years ago. Some, Jane Money, Stephanie Bacon and Stuart Ridgway, went onto represent Leicestershire in athletics competitions that year. #NSHD2019 #sportingheritage

One of our claims to fame is our role in setting the international marathon distance of 26 miles and 385 yards, which is based on the route our Harriers created for the 1908 London Olympics *not* the distance from marathon to Athens... #NSHD2019

Timely for #nationalsportingheritageday , some London Telephone & Telegraph Service girl probationers at physical drill #OTD 30 September 1929 #telecoms #women #WomensHealth #archives #NSHD2019 #shareyoursportingheritage

To celebrate #NSHD2019
A sneak peak of one of the new high resolution scans soon to be added to the site.
A rare team photo of Cardiffrfc 1903

Some images from the athletic competitions at the Northern Meeting Games in #Inverness : hurdling (1919), tug of war (1920), the pole vault and high jump (both 1922)
#nationalsportingheritageday
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#NSHD2019 marks 150 Years of Cycling at Crystal Palace! The oldest venue of ongoing cycle racing since 1869, a tradition continued with CP Crits, CP Triathlon and many other cycle races in Crystal Palace!

cpsp2020.com/cp-crits-150/

National Sporting Heritage Day - September 30th

The Fishwives' Race at the #Dornoch Games, early 20th century. #NSHD2019

[photo: High Life Highland Libraries' postcard collection]