Ada Smith and Hilda Smith

Scope and Content

Copies of photographs and identity cards of Ada Smith and Hilda Smith, who both competed in Great Britain's women's gymnastics team at the Amsterdam Olympics of 1928. The photographs, apart from one, are of the women's 1928 Olympic gymnastics team. The other, taken in 2004, pictures girls from the Leigh Gymnastics Club holding Olympic memorabilia once belonging to Ada and Hilda. Compiled by John Taylor.