2-632-261 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Club-house at Ranelagh', c1890, (1912). The Ranelagh Club, a famous polo club located at Barn Elms in South West London, founded in 1878 as a split-off from the Hurlingham Club. By 1894 it was the largest polo club in the world with approximately 3000 members in 1913. On 18 July 1878, the Ranelagh Club became the first to host a sports match under floodlights when it played the Hurlingham Club. From London - South of the Thames, by Sir Walter Besant. [Adam & Charles Black, London, 1912]