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Football after dark: a match on the first association ground

Playing with a specially made white chrome ball, lit by powerful electric lamps on thirty masts: ladies football teams on the Burnley cricket club ground during a match. The Dick Kerr Electric Company of Preston(in black and white striped kit) and Heys of Bradford(in white jerseys) played their ladies teams, under artificial lighting supplied by the Siemons Lamp Works, with cables and fittings supplied by Dick Kerr's Works

Picture No
10587455
Media ID
46091881
Size
3292px x 2137px (3.3MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Illustration by C.E Turner in The Illustrated London News, 1924 February 16th pages 256-257
Date
1924

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