Repro ID: H6479
Title: The Royal Observatory Hockey Club, 1896-97.
Description: The photograph shows the Royal Observatory Hockey club as it was in 1896-97. William Henry Mahoney Christie, the Astronomer Royal and the club’s president, is in the centre sitting down. Chief Assistant Frank Dyson, then team captain and later Christie's successor as Astronomer Royal, is in the front left wearing a white jumper. The team was made up of staff from across the Observatory and included WV Woodman, the foreman of the workshop (who built and repaired some of the Observatory’s apparatus) and several observing and computing (or calculating) staff.
Creator: Elliott & Fry photographers
Date: 1896-97
Credit line: National Maritime Museum, London
