Description
Old Sporting
Characters and Occasions from Sporting and Road History
Hugh McCausland
First edition 1948
Hardback NO dust jacket
9″ x 6″, 167 pages + index, illustrated with b+w pictures
Contents
Section 1
Hunting squires, John Ward and Blue Ruin, T Thornton of Thornville Royal, Tregonwell Frampton of Newmarket, Col Hawker of Longparish,
Section 2
Horse and Highway, Characters of the road, St Martins Le Grand and its mail coaches, on the road with Col Hawker, Road matches and rides, Newmarket matches, THE SELBY RUN, LORD LONSDALE AGAINST TIME
Section 3
stable and studio, Sporting painters, MAIL COACH HALFPENNIES, Tom Oldaker and his portraits, Surtees illustrators, master Robert and Black Horse
OUT OF INTEREST THERE IS A PHOTOGRAPH OF THE TELEGRAPH COACH BEING USED TO HANG THE PUB SIGN WITHIN THIS ARTICLE
bibliography, index
