1957 Press Photo Traditional Good-Friday British Marbles Championships At Tinsel

Traditional Good-Friday British Marbles Championships At Tinsel Green: The traditional good Friday British Marbles Championships were held today on a circle of turf on the forecourt of the Greyhound inn at Tinsel Green, a hamlet on the Sun sex-Surrey border. The match, which is over 350 years Old, is reputed to have started in the Elizabethan days - at the time of the Spanish Armada threat, when two young man competed for the hand of the village beauty . Photo shows Harry Lang ridge, of the Tinsel Tigers, three times individual champion, in play during the championships today

Photo measures 8 x 10 inches.

Photo is dated 04-04-1957.



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