Galleries

Here is just a small selection of the images from the Played in Britain collection. The selection will be updated regularly. If you have a photo of a favourite sporting place, email it to us at with full details and we will do our best to find a slot. Note we are particularly interested in unusual details: plaques, weathervanes, turnstiles and so on.

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Sporting places

Stands and stadiums, grounds and greens, pools and pavilions, billiard halls and ice rinks, racecourses and golf courses, lidos and boat houses - Played in Britain celebrates all forms of historic and modern sporting architecture. Delve here for the power of place, the power of play...

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Sporting plaques

A number of local authorities and agencies have put up plaques to commemorate sporting heroes or key locations, as have English Heritage. If you would like to nominate someone or somewhere in London for a distinctive English Heritage blue plaque before the 2012 games, please email it to .

Note on copyright: please note that all images are copyright and cannot be reproduced without permission.