3-053-647 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

National Rifle Association Prize Meeting; preparing for the camp at Wimbledon, [south-west London], 1873. 'Cooking at Jennisons; Bottling Ginger Beer; Telegraph Bus; Billiard Tent; Telling off Markers to the different Targets...The fourteenth annual prize meeting of the National Rifle Association began on Monday...The camp of rifle volunteer corps on Wimbledon-common looks very much as in bygone summers, and our page of sketches, made on the camping-ground last week, shows many familiar incidents of that free military village, built with canvas in a few days or hours. There are matters of business, such as the appointment of markers to attend the shooting-targets; there are also refreshments and amusements to be provided for; and we observe among the latter a novel institution for ball practice at Wimbledon - that of a pair of billiard-tables, under their particular tent...The Canadian riflemen have pitched their tents near the iron house, with their flag displayed on a lofty mast...The first day's shooting was good, Mr. W. C. Fordyce winning the prize in the Alfred series of seven shots at 200 yards, with a score of 28, the highest that could possibly be made'. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.