Flashing Scores at Wimbledon – British Invention for Tennis Fans – the First Electronic Scoreboard at Wimbledon

Published on 5 July 2013 by

We’ve been reading stories about the history of Wimbledon in The Archive, and have found some terrific newspaper reports.

Here’s an article about the arrival of the electronic scoreboard on Centre Court in 1929, published in the Derby Daily Telegraph.

Read some of the other historical newspaper stories about Wimbledon that we’ve been posting on the blog.

Derby Daily Telegraph – Friday 21 June 1929

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News from the British Newspaper Archive

Published on Fri, 5 July 2013.