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Yes, Martin is still around.

I would be very interested in obtaining a copy of the booklet as I am researching/writing the history of Edgbaston Archery & Lawn Tennis Society. George Dixon and members of his family were members. Would you provide contact details for the appropriate person at the Association please?

For some years I've been looking for images of the Welsh Harper pub and the attached racket court which was home to the Birmingham Rackets Club for a few years from the late 1850s. No success so far.

Thanks. I have found that article.

Regret not. I’ll be going back to look at the Society’s archive in the Library of Birmingham soon, Covid and cancer having curtailed my research somewhat over the last couple of years. There may be a more detailed reference to them in the relevant minute book.

In researching the history of Edgbaston Archery & Lawn Tennis Society, the oldest lawn tennis club in the world, I find listed in our membership record of 1902 one Thomas Middlemore MP and his wife. He was a member 1865-1883 and his wife 1882-1883. What puzzles me is that I can find no record of...

It has been suggested that Gem and Perera may no longer be regarded as lawn tennis pioneers as the game they were playing was an outdoor version of Rackets. This meaning also that their club, formed 1874, in Leamington Spa may no longer be regarded as the first lawn tennis club in the world...

Thanks. That's interesting, mainly from the fact that they were still playing tournaments during the war.

Kynnersley was Birmingham's first stipendiary, appointed in 1856 and held the position for thirty years. He was a member of the Edgbaston Archery Society, now Edgbaston Archery & Lawn Tennis Society. I am engaged in researching and writing the history of this the oldest lawn tennis club in the...

Many thanks Mike. I'm in touch with them on several maters including the history of Edgbaston Archery & LTS in particular and lawn tennis in general. I'll see what can be done. May have to wait until they reopen and I can visit in person.

Morning Mike. Edgbaston Archery Society held its second meeting at the Old Library back in 1860 and I'm looking for a high resolution image to include in the history which I am producing. Woud you be able to provide or point me in the direction of where the above was published and I'll purchase...

Many thanks. I may have more similar questions regarding other EA&LTS members from the Victorian era.

I am researching the Blakemore family, who were members of Edgbaston Archery & Lawn Tennis Society at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Villiers’ daughter Edith was befriended by Lewis Carroll and they engaged in a very cordial correspondence over some twenty years. I find that they lived...

Thanks Tony. I’ve just purchased a copy and a first quick scan has revealed quite a bit of useful information not only about Dixon but several other contemporary members of the Society.

I am writing the history of the Edgbaston Archery & Lawn Tennis Society, the oldest lawn tennis club in the world. Our membership register of 1920 lists a Ralph Heaton Jnr as having been a member from 1883 to1886. I'm of the opinion that this must be Ralph IV? Any help would be much appreciated.

These images are really interesting and add a lot to my knowledge of the popularity of archery at this time. Many thanks.

This from elsewhere on the Forum: https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/eliezer-edwards.50305/post-651427

It's in his obituary which appeared in the Edgbastonia magazine December 1881.