Distinguished Visitors Book: Old Swan Hotel 1953-1984

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Old Swan Hotel, Harrogate, Yorkshire: The Distinguished Visitors Book (blue leather with gilt embossing) intermittently maintained during the 1953-84 period. Yields many fascinating autographs including Mary, Princess Royal; James Ramsden; Jose Ferrer; Gracie Fields; Kenneth Horne; Lord Denning; Prime Minister Harold Macmillan; Sir Alec Guinness; cricketers Philip Sharpe, Derek Underwood, Don Kenyon & Alec Bedser (in 1969); Herbert Sutcliffe (1955); 15 members of the English Test Team and former players (July 1956) including Peter May, Godfrey Evans, Fred Trueman, Jim Laker, Cyril Washbrook, Colin Cowdrey, Len Hutton, etc., Don Bradman; Prime Minister Harold Wilson; English cricketers in town for the 1957 match against the West Indies, including Tom Graveney, Jim Laker, Tony Lock, Fred Trueman, Gubby Allen, David Sheppard, etc; Peter Thomson; Prime Minister Edward Heath; England Test team v Australia July 1961; Sir John Barbiroli; England Test Team v West Indies, July 1963; England Test Team v Australia, July 1964; England Test Team v West Indies, 1966; England Test Team v India, 1967; and many others.

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