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Cartoon

CIC

Trevor C. Jones

1930s

Cartoon, B&W, hand drawn by Trevor C. Jones. Depicts caricatures of members of Swansea's "Water Rats" Cricket Club. Dimensions 42.5cm x 36cm

A hand drawn cartoon by cartoonist Trevor C. Jones depicting caricatures of various members of Swansea's "Water Rats" Cricket Club. They were a charitable organisation donating proceeds from matches to local good causes. Depicts present and former Swansea RFC and Cricket Club players and committee men of the 1920s and 1930s, including W J Trew Jnr., Bruce Barter, Rowe Harding, Roy Jones, Denver Rees, G Grimshaw, Elwyn Watkins, Edgar Long, Jack Bancroft, Dai Parker, D P Manley, Wilfred Faull, Watkin Thomas and Bob Dowdle. The backdrop to the image is St Helen's ground and its grandstand. The "Water Rats" played from shortly after the First World war until the late 1980s.

cartoon, trevor c jones, 1930s, W J Trew Jnr, Bruce Barter, Rowe Harding, Roy Jones, Denver Rees, G Grimshaw, Elwyn Watkins, Edgar Long, Jack Bancroft, Dai Parker, D P Manley, Wilfred Faull, Watkin Thomas, Bob Dowdle,