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Rupertswood

Shire link to cricket's Ashes

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Newspaper clipping about the life of Janet, Lady Clarke and particularly about the story of The Ashes which took place at Rupertswood, her home near Sunbury.  A cricket match was played between the Clarke household and the visiting English team.  The English team lost and Lady Clarke, as a joke, is said to have presented the captain, Ivo Bligh, with the little urn containing some

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