Coaches at Lord's
NE of the special features of the Eton-Harrow match at Lords is the old coaches. At one point around the pitch, old family coaches, which have long been displaced by motor cars, are drawn up as grandstands and a rendezvous for the family at mealtime. I don’t know when they smuggle these old
coaches into the ground, I have never seen them on the move, but I have a vision of these once lordly vehicles being ignominously drawn along the road by some old cart horse in the dark of the night, Well, here they are, with the owner’s name on a large card attached. Lord this, Viscount that. The Earl of something else. At lunch time,
and tea time, the youngsters are much in evidence. The family butler, very dignified, serves a most luscious meal, and one item is always a huge silver platter of strawberries, and a silver jug as big as a bedroom jug, of cream. And how these youngsters hoe into it!-(From "Shoes and Ships and Sealing Wax," by Nelle Scanlan.) * * *
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 52, 21 June 1940, Page 10
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178Coaches at Lord's New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 52, 21 June 1940, Page 10
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