From the Archives News Articles
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Friday Photos 122: Wonderful discovery from the 1940s!
October 22, 2021Sometimes there is the most wonderful discovery and record of former times and such was the case when Bob Janes contacted Table Tennis England as he had found some old negatives in his father-in-law’s attic – taken in January 1947!
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Friday Photos 121: Celebrating John Hilton
September 18, 2020To celebrate John Hilton’s wonderful achievement at the European Championships 40 years ago in winning the Men’s Singles title, this week, Friday’s Photos shows pictures of John over several years.
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Friday Photos 120: Top-class WBL competitors
September 11, 2020A different perspective to 1992 as we look at the ladies playing in the Women’s British League at the Crystal Leisure Centre in Stourbridge in February that year.
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Friday Photos 119: More from Arthur Clark’s album
September 4, 2020This week we go back 28 years to 1992 with a selection of photographs taken by Arthur Clark in that year.
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Friday Photos 118: Phyllis added star quality
August 28, 2020A view from the lens of Arthur Clark from 1991 this week and once again there are a smattering of England senior internationals amongst the […]
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Friday Photos 117: More WBL players to identify
August 21, 2020This week there are more photos from the first Women’s British League season in 1988/89. Some familiar faces, at least 10 England senior internationals, and several unidentified. Can you help put names to faces?
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Friday Photos 116: Can you identify WBL players?
August 14, 2020In this week’s Friday Photos, we are appealing for people to confirm the identities of players from the first season of the Women’s British League.
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Friday Photos 115: Tournaments from 1990
August 7, 2020More photos from Arthur Clark, this time from 1990 from a range of events. At the Essex Open Matthew Syed seems to be looking at […]
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Friday Photos 114: Back in time to ’89
July 24, 2020This week we return to photographs from the lens of Arthur Clark taken in 1989 at a selection of tournaments.
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Friday Photos 113: More from the Sealink Youth Cup
July 17, 2020Some more photos from the Sealink Youth Cup in the early 1980s. Do these images jog anyone’s memory?
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Friday Photos 112: Sealink Youth Cup
July 10, 2020Can you name the players in these photos, taken at the Sealink Youth Cup?
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Friday Photos 111: Isle of Man hosts the Commonwealth
July 3, 2020Some more photographs from the Ransome Collection, of the Commonwealth Championships in 1985 on the Isle of Man.
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Friday Photos 110: Internationals in their early days
June 26, 2020Some more photographs from Arthur Clark this week, they again show tournaments based around Essex, with a good smattering of players who were or went on to become England internationals.
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Friday Photos 109: All roads lead to Essex
June 19, 2020Over the last few months I have been privileged to have received from Arthur Clark of Essex a regular supply of his photographs going back over four decades.
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Friday Photos 108: Commonwealth Championships success
June 12, 2020This week we feature some action photos from the Alan and Jose Ransome Collection taken at the Commonwealth Championships, Isle of Man, 1985.
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Friday Photos 107: Ellenborough memories
June 5, 2020Last week’s appeal for memorabilia has produced some positive results, with a special thank you to Jose Ransome who has sent a large package of photographs which will keep me busy for a day or so having a meander through them.
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Friday Photos 106: Back to school for England v Germany
May 29, 2020Friday Photos makes a return to remember when a Sussex school was the venue as England took on Germany.
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Friday Photos 105: Taking on the Worlds
January 25, 2019This week the photographs were taken at the 1981 World Championships in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia from the Alan and Jose Ransome Collection.
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Friday Photos 104: Cleveland Calling 2
January 17, 2019This week there are more photos from the Cleveland Junior Select 4*.
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Friday Photos 103: Cleveland calling
January 11, 2019This week there are several photographs from a couple of Cleveland Select Junior Open tournaments from the 1980s.
