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PHA/8/1/5/35
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[Page 34] Two newspaper cuttings; cartoon of Southern Cross-country championships; article with photograph about E H Middleton; 1912
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- 1912 (Creation)
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1 piece
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(1826-1995)
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Newspaper cutting from The Sporting Life, Monday February 19th 1912, with headline: "[Cross-country] Championships: Full Details of he Southern..." featuring cartoons of the 29th Southern Cross-country Championships depicting humourous anecdotes from the race and some of the individuals involved, including T Johnston, W H Fox and E J Liddiard; 154x305mm. Newspaper cutting featuring photograph of Ernest Hardy Middleton of Peterborough, aged 44, who did the 14 miles road walk at the Stamford meeting the previous Monday. The text describes the career of Middleton, detailing how he took up walking in 1895 with the late J W Bonnett of the Polytechnic; Note added in hand dating the cutting as August 1912; 153x58mm.