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Inglewood Lawn Tennis Club, 1899

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Inglewood Lawn Tennis Club, 1899

Tennis clubs allowed people to play competitively, with other members and players from other districts. This is the Inglewood Lawn Tennis Club in Taranaki in 1899. The smart little tennis pavilion contrasts with the surrounding landscape, which is still littered with felled native trees.

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Auckland Council Libraries − Tāmaki Pātaka Kōrero o Tāmaki Makaurau, Sir George Grey Special Collections

Reference: AWNS-18990512-2-1

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Joseph Romanos, Tennis – The development of tennis, 1870s to 1910s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/37336/inglewood-lawn-tennis-club-1899 (accessed 5 June 2026).

Story by Joseph Romanos, published 24 February 2012.