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Lord's Cricket-ground

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Venue Type & Location

Park

Overview

  • Address: St. John’s Wood Road (between Grove End and Wellington Roads). For a current map, Click Here. For historical maps showing the venue (in addition to the one excerpted at right), Click Here, Here and Here.

  • Alternate Names: Lord’s New Cricket Ground

  • Performance Space Description: Information about this venue has not yet been compiled; however, some sense of the performance space may be gleaned by following the links at right. In particular:

  • See the 'Bibliographic Sources' link for a provisional list of venue-relevant resources (both primary and secondary). Wherever possible (i.e. when the pertinent text is relatively short and/or easily condensed) this material has been transcribed, and appears beneath the appropriate bibliographic citation.

  • See the 'Events at venue' link for a listing of blackface/minstrelsy-related events that took place in this performance space (with attached bibliographic references).

    Beth Marquis

    • Troupes at Lord's Cricket-ground

    Film Affiliated people Film Type # of event(s)
    Ioway Indians Mew-Hu-She-Kaw, Exhibition Definite Ioway Indians
    Ioway Indians Neu-Mon-Ya, Exhibition Definite Ioway Indians
    Ioway Indians Se-Non-Ty-Yah , Exhibition Definite Ioway Indians
    Ioway Indians Wash-Ka-Mon-Ya , Exhibition Definite Ioway Indians
    Ioway Indians No-Ho-Mun-Ya, Exhibition Definite Ioway Indians
    Ioway Indians Shon-Ta-Yi-Ga , Exhibition Definite Ioway Indians
    Ioway Indians Wa-Tan-Ye , Exhibition Definite Ioway Indians
    Ioway Indians Wa-Ta-We-Bu-Ka-Na , Exhibition Definite Ioway Indians
    Ioway Indians Jeffrey, Exhibition Definite Ioway Indians
    Ioway Indians Ruton-Ye-We-Ma , Exhibition Definite Ioway Indians
    Ioway Indians Ruton-We-Me , Exhibition Definite Ioway Indians
    Ioway Indians Oke-We-Me , Exhibition Definite Ioway Indians
    Ioway Indians Koon-Za-Ya-Me , Exhibition Definite Ioway Indians
    Ioway Indians Ta-Pa-Ta-Me, Exhibition Definite Ioway Indians
    Ioway Indians Corsair, Exhibition Definite Ioway Indians
    Ioway Indians Catlin, George Exhibition Definite Ioway Indians

    Events at Lord's Cricket-ground

    Event Date Venue Location Film
    Exhibition - London, London (city-county) Ioway Indians
    Exhibition - London, London (city-county) Ioway Indians

    Bibliographic Sources

    View a list of abbreviations.

    • (Under Entertainment - Sport - Cricket)
    • Leipsic: Karl Baedeker, 1885


      ”Cricket. Lord's at St John's Wood (p. 219), the headquarters of the Marylebone Club, is the chief cricket ground in London. Here are played, in June and July, the Eton and Harrow, and the Oxford and Cambridge matches, besides many others” (44-5).
    • (Under 'COM-CUS' - Entry on Cricket)