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Sydney Cricket Ground: a handwritten agreement between the…
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16-Feb-2010
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Sydney Cricket Ground: a handwritten agreement between the Trustees of the Sydney Cricket Ground and Henry Parry to build the Member's stand at the SCG for '6625, dated 15th June 1886. Four pages of A3 legal paper, signed and sealed by Philip Sheridan and Matthew Stephen (2 of the original three Trustees of the ground), Charles Oliver and Henry Parry. Together with a foolscap 2p noting the conditions to be observed to erect the Pavilion on the 'Association cricket ground' (as it was then known); a further double-folded foolscap series of conditions regarding payment, signed by the builder Henry Parry; and 3p of hand-written legal opinion from Cecil Stephen in November 1888, to the Trustees of the SCG, regarding the licensing of sports events 'In the Interests of the Public'. Rare documents relating to cricket history - the creation of the new Member's Pavilion enforced a deal with the English team to play Tests exclusively in Sydney in 1887
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Memorabilia: Sporting - Cricket