While this was in the Eastbourne College album, and the blazers give it away, it would be good to gather any further information. Names and dates would help to complete this picture. I’ll post t...
Another unconfirmed team, but I do know that this came with the album that contained all the Radnorshire paraphernalia. The batch included scorecards, newspaper reports and a few of these team photos....
Bullseye! If you take enough photographs at cricket grounds, eventually one will show the ball hitting the stumps. Here is that successful shot, along with a few more of Sir Paul Getty’s XI v th...
Normally I like to take several photos of a ground, but this was a grim day. I didn’t want Woolpit to look too bleak so I just settled on the pavilion. As Suffolk play here, it’s clearly a...
I found yet another matchbox label. I really think this is the last one from the current collection. Once again, it would be nice to see the ground, but I thought I should include this to continue the...
For the sake of completion, this is the third and last matchbox label from my collection. There are just three that show cricket clubs and the rest are pubs with cricketing themes – most of whic...
A while ago I posted a matchbox label featuring Carlton Cricket Club in Yorkshire. This is from that collection – this time it’s for Bromley Cricket Club in Kent. I appreciate it probably ...
This was my first visit to Grace Road and it was a great day – apart from the fact that Notts lost. This was in the days when the One Day Cup was still a serious competition, and featured the to...
I wouldn’t normally include a photo of an umpire, but that is no ordinary umpire. The man making the signal is none other than David Ivon Gower, scorer of over 11,000 of the most elegant interna...
I couldn’t get in to the ground so this is all I have from Grindleford. Another nice looking set up, and particularly impressed with the pavilion. As you can tell if you’re here from the s...