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Line 27: ==1940== In the 1940 ''[[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack\|Wisden]]'', the cricket author [[Harry Altham\|H S Altham]]~~, now an Army Major,~~ described his “sobering experience” when he visited [[Lord's Cricket Ground\|Lord’s]] the previous December. He said: :''...there were sandbags everywhere, and the Long Room was stripped and bare, with its treasures safely stored beneath ground, but ... one felt that somehow it would take more than totalitarian war to put an end to cricket''.

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