A tour of Lord’s Cricket Ground for two with Alex Gibson outside the cricket season

A tour of Lord’s Cricket Ground for two with Alex Gibson outside the cricket season - to include the Pavilion and Long Room and also the Real Tennis Court to watch a game and have it explained.

Kindly donated by Alex Gibson

Marylebone Cricket Club was founded in 1787, taking as its home a cricket ground set up by the ambitious entrepreneur Thomas Lord staged his first match – between Middlesex and Essex – on a ground on Dorset Fields in Marylebone.

In the 1870s, MCC decided it wanted to get involved in county cricket, which was growing in popularity, and, in 1877, it invited Middlesex to adopt Lord's as its county ground - an arrangement which continues over 140 years later.