Pitch Thawing

22nd December 1938: Ground staff at Stoke City tending the braziers which have been placed on the football pitch in an attempt to thaw the frozen ground. Player, Stanley Matthews, warms his hands over one of the fires. (Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Pitch Thawing
22nd December 1938: Ground staff at Stoke City tending the braziers which have been placed on the football pitch in an attempt to thaw the frozen ground. Player, Stanley Matthews, warms his hands over one of the fires. (Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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Credit:
Fox Photos / Stringer
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3307550
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Hulton Archive
Date created:
December 22, 1938
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Hulton Archive
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HH9234
Object name:
96g/11/huch/3579/18
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