A Georgian cricket bat, from a negative annotated ‘The oldest cricket bat at the Oval, Mr Hugh Barty-King’ (possible owner), with label ‘J.C. 1729’ – photographed 20th December 1978. ID; IV\/362\/Box127<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Manning Photographers was founded in the late 1940s by James Manning, who was later joined by his son Frank. The studio operated from 1952 onwards in Windmill Row, Kennington and continued until 2022. Their extensive photographic archive of approximately 500,000 images was gifted to Lambeth Archives by Frank & Sandra Manning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Copyright: The rights in this image are usually held by the person(s) commissioning the original photograph. We have been unable to identify the holder(s) to seek their permission for use and would be very pleased to hear from them to identify the photograph or in case they wish the photograph to be taken down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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