The Cricket History of Calderdale and Kirklees

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to 'The Cricketing Heritage of Calderdale & Kirklees' website. This project received a £43,400 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund - it is about cricket, community and the local heritage in the Halifax, Huddersfield and Dewsbury areas. More >>

COMING SOON

Pennine Cricket Society at Golcar Cricket Club, Huddersfield
THURSDAY 23 FEBRUARY 2012
GUEST SPEAKERS: Hanif Mayet and Farid Karolia, Mount CC (Batley)
"From Sachin to Samosas: Grassroots Asian Cricket in Yorkshire"
7pm Start

MENU
White teacakes: chicken and stuffing; roast beef
Wholemeal bread: Double Gloucester and Branston; egg mayo
Wraps: chicken tikka, salad, mint yogurt
Open ciabatta: tuna paté and cucumber; Milano salami and tomato relish
Selection of mini savoury pastries
ALL WELCOME

NEW PUBLICATIONS

B.Sanderson, T.Hutton & P.Davies, Bloggers on the Boundary: Cricket Diary 2010. £5. Please email peterdavies80@hotmail.co.uk to reserve a copy.

D.Peel, History of Mirfield & District Evening League, 2011

P.Davies, Say Cheese! Team Pictures from Calderdale and Kirklees: 2011
P.Davies, Cuckoos and Moonrakers: The Cricket Clubs of the Colne Valley, 2011

P.Davies, Gone But Not Forgotten: The Lost Cricket Clubs of Calderdale and Kirklees, 2011

NEW BOOK FOR SALE: Two Men and a Blog - Order Form

Professional Cricket Watchers

Project Publications for Sale

LATEST HEADLINES - OCTOBER 2011

Latest Site Additions New History of Illingworth St. Mary's CC by Andrew Smith (979kb PDF) History of Mirfield & District Evening League by David I. Peel (690kb PDF) New Book: History of Burnley CC (26kb PDF) Web Link Book Review: 'Captain of the Crowd' by Tony Laughton (31kb PDF) Local Cricket Artist Martin Farrar - Prints for Sale (90kb PDF) Project Publications For Sale Catalogue (108kb PDF) UPDATED Project Timeline UPDATED Home & Away: Tony Hutton Photographs UPDATED Press & Media Coverage of Project 2004-11 NEW! Photographic Database of UK Cricket Grounds Cricket Teas Around Calderdale and Kirklees - 2008 (1.2mb PDF) Local Cricket Coaching: www.procricketcoachingacademy.com www.procoachcricketacademy.co.uk www.playinthevcricketbats.com 'Buy & Sell' Small Ads (19kb PDF) Click Here to Play Stumped Google Earth - The Cricket Grounds of Calderdale and Kirklees Like-Minded Sport Heritage Projects: Up & Under, GAA, Tale-Enders COMING SOON 2011 (23 Oct) New Dewsbury League History (72kb PDF) 2011 (27 Oct) Launch of Pennine Cricket Society (93kb PDF) 2011 (6 Dec) Cricket Talk at Beaumont Park (72kb PDF) 2011/2 Cricket Talk at Marsden History Group (58kb PDF) 2012 (31 Mar) 8th Pennine History Conference (64kb PDF) 2013 Huddersfield Central League History (60kb PDF) Web Link 2014 Halifax League Centenary History (17kb PDF) LATEST NEWS SEP 11: New Project Publications (72kb PDF) MAR 11: 7th Pennine Cricket History Conference OCT 10: Talk at Brighouse Historical Society AUG 10: Exhibitions on Cricket and Public Houses (33kb PDF) JUL 10: 'Pagodas & Potato Salad': History of Honley CC (32kb PDF) JUN 10: Barnsley Lecture on Women and Cricket (web link) JUN 10: 'Huddersfield Seminars': Social History (69kb PDF) MAY 10: Launch of Yorkshire Cricket Collection (689kb PDF) MAY 10: Yorkshire CCC and Asian/Caribbean Cricket (17kb PDF) MAY 10: Bradford Industrial Museum and BCL Exhibition (32kb PDF) APR 10: Almondbury Casuals Annual Dinner (199kb PDF) APR 10: Talk at Dewsbury Matters APR 10: Media & Journalism Seminar on Calderdale Cricket (71kb PDF) MAR 10: Grimsby After-Dinner Speech (1mb PDF) MAR 10: Arrow Huddersfield Central League Annual Dinner (18kb PDF) MAR 10: 6th Pennine Cricket History Conference - Photos (621kb PDF) MAR 10: 6th Pennine Cricket History Conference - Publicity (46kb PDF) FEB 10: Drakes Huddersfield League Annual Dinner (18kb PDF) JAN 10: New Books: Two Men and a Blog & Project Anthology (38kb PDF) DEC 09: Boxing Day Cricket Match at North Leeds CC - Photos (5mb PDF) DEC 09: Two Men and a Blog Featured in Northern Echo (web link) DEC 09: New History of Dewsbury & District League (44kb PDF) DEC 09: Batley CC Presentation Evening (29kb PDF) DEC 09: Batley CC Presentation Evening - Photos (246kb PDF) DEC 09: Report on Project for Huddersfield League AGM (37kb PDF) DEC 09: Project Features in Asian Express (47kb PDF) ACROSS CALDERDALE AND KIRKLEES Sowerby Bridge CC under Water (66kb PDF) Snowy Shelley (1.5mb PDF) Profile of Clive Lloyd (Holmfirth & West Indies) by Aaron Gales (17kb PDF) New Linthwaite Photos (397kb PDF) Sir Charles Sykes and the Sykes Cup (324kb PDF) Early Golcar CC Photos (188kb PDF) Profile of Paul Jarvis (Batley & England) by Michael Ward (21kb PDF) Profile of Ronnie Hart, Gomersal/N Zealand, by Ashley Ball (24kb PDF) Profile of Wilf Barber (Gomersal/Brighouse) by Matt Carswell (20kb PDF) CURRENT RESEARCH The Great & the Good: Memorials, Plaques & Dedications A-Z Hall of Fame: The 50 Best Calderdale & Kirklees Cricketers Early Cricket in Calderdale & Kirklees (pre-1900) Women: Interviews, Profiles and Photos Groundsmen: Interviews, Profiles and Photos Webmasters: Interviews and Profiles Poetry & Verse Cartoons & Caricatures Leagues & Cups: Past & Present Municipal Grounds: Fartown, Thrum Hall & Savile Ground PHOTOGRAPHIC CHRONICLE OF 2011 SEASON Sat 16 April: Linthwaite v Cawthorne (Huddersfield League) Sat 16 April: Slaithwaite v Broad Oak (Huddersfield League) Sat 16 April: Marsden v Scholes (Huddersfield League) Sun 17 April: Kirkburton v Shepley (Heavy Woollen Cup) Sat 23 April: Mirfield Parish Cavaliers v Sat 30 Apr: Copley v Sat 30 Apr: Mytholmroyd v Sat 7 May: Denby Dale Sat 7 May: Kirkburton Sat 14 May: Lepton Highlanders v Rastrick (Huddersfield League) Sat 14 May: Lascelles Hall v Cawthorne (Huddersfield League) Sat 14 May: Kirkheaton v Hoylandswaine (Huddersfield League) Sat 21 May: Mirfield Parish Cavaliers Sat 21 May: Hanging Heaton Sat 28 May: Denby Dale Sat 28 May: Skelmanthorpe v Kirkburton (Huddersfield League) Sat 18 Jun: Lightcliffe Sat 18 Jun: Brighouse Sun 19 Jun: Golcar v Delph & Dobcross (Sykes Cup) Sun 26 Jun: Almondbury Wesleyans Sun 26 Jun: Cumberworth Sat 2 Jul: Greetland Sat 2 Jul: Barkisland v Meltham (Huddersfield League) Sat 2 Jul: Elland v Golcar (Huddersfield League) Sat 2 Jul: Blackley Sun 10 Jul: Shepley v Slaithwaite (Heavy Woollen Cup) Sun 31 Jul: Heavy Woollen Cup Final at Spen Victoria Sat 6 Aug: Illingworth Sun 7 Aug: at Almondbury Wesleyans Sat 13 Aug: Silkstone Common v Sat 13 Aug: Sun 14 Aug: at Scholes Sat 20 Aug: Marsden v Sat 27 Aug: Sun 18 Sep: Upperthong v Sun 18 Sep: Holmbridge v Sun 18 Sep: Thurstonland v Almondbury Wesleyan PHOTOGRAPHIC CHRONICLE OF 2010 SEASON Sat 17 Apr: Skelmathorpe v Honley (550kb PDF) Sun 18 Apr: Spen Victoria v Woodlands (2.6mb PDF) Sun 18 Apr: Gomersal v Baildon (2.9mb PDF) Sun 18 Apr: Scholes v Kirkheaton (3.5mb PDF) Sun 25 Apr: Old Almondburians v Birkby Rose Hill (1.8mb PDF) Sun 25 Apr: Almondbury Wes v Flockton (1mb PDF) Sat 1 May: Stainland v Luddendenfoot (48kb PDF) Sat 1 May: Greetland v Queensbury (1.5mb PDF) Sat 1 May: Copley v Greetland (1.8mb PDF) Sat 1 May: Blackley v Booth (981kb PDF) Sat 8 May: Linthwaite v Hall Bower (359kb PDF) Sat 8 May: Broad Oak v Marsden (391kb PDF) Sun 9 May: Stones v Old Town (1.4mb PDF) Sun 9 May: Blackley v King Cross (874kb PDF) Sun 9 May: Kirkburton v Barkisland (588kb PDF) Sat 15 May: Hopton Mills v East Ardsley (1.7mb PDF) Sat 22 May: Holmfirth v Armitage Bridge (1.2mb PDF) Sat 22 May: Thongsbridge v Kirkheaton (1.4mb PDF) Mon 31 May: Shelley v Meltham (294kb PDF) Sat 5 Jun: Mytholmroyd v Jer Lane (1.9mb PDF) Sat 5 Jun SBCI v Sowerby St. Peter's (1mb PDF) Sat 5 Jun Blackley v Thornton (511kb PDF) Sat 12 Jun: Shelley v Lepton Highlanders (43kb PDF) Sun 13 Jun: Skelmanthorpe v Marsden (123kb PDF) Sat 19 Jun: Kirkburton v Skelmanthorpe (289kb PDF) Sat 26 Jun: Denby Dale v Thurstonland (414kb PDF) Sun 27 Jun: Shepley v Holmfirth (461kb PDF) Sun 4 Jul: Elland v (55kb PDF) Sun 4 Jul: Outlane (589kb PDF) Sun 4 Jul: Rastrick (443kb PDF) Sat 10 Jul: Lightcliffe (476kb PDF) Sat 4 Sep: Skelmanthorpe v Elland (751kb PDF) Sat 4 Sep: Kirkburton v Emley Clarence (523kb PDF) Sun 12 Sep: Denby Dale v Cawthorne (1.2mb PDF) CUP FINALS: YEAR BY YEAR Sykes Cup 1920-2010 Paddock Shield 1922-2010 Parish Cup 1888-2010 Crossley Shield 1948-2010 Allsop Cup 1928-2010 Tinker Cup 1926-2010 Heavy Woollen Cup 1883-2010 CLUBS: PAST AND PRESENT Former Clubs in Calderdale, North Kirklees & South Kirklees Club Histories in Local Press A-Z Club Anniversary Brochures Current Dewsbury & District League Clubs Current Quaid-e-Azam Sunday League Clubs Current Sharjah League Clubs Current Huddersfield & District Evening League Clubs 'NOTHING TO PLAY FOR' BY DAVE WALKER - MEMORIES OF ALMONDBURY CASUALS CC. Contact Dave via dawalker@doctors.org.uk 1 April - Annual General Meeting (26kb PDF) 2 April - First Game of the Season (24kb PDF) 3 May - A New Cricket Writer on the Block (32kb PDF) 4 May - Not Selected (29kb PDF) 5 May - No Need for a Ringer (28kb PDF) 6 May - Not a Full Side Again (16kb PDF) 7 June - You Have to Catch the Bloody Thing (20kb PDF) Memoirs of a Cricket Graduate (13kb PDF) Senior Moments (15kb PDF) HERITAGE GRAPHICS: LOCAL GROUNDS UNDER THE SPOTLIGHT Dalton Fold, Edgerton & Dalton CC (45kb PDF) Upper Lane, Emley CC (42kb PDF) Lockout Park, Flockton CC (102kb PDF) Hall Bower Lane, Hall Bower CC 55kb PDF) Woodhead Road, Holmbridge (62kb PDF) Bridge Fold, Holmfirth (59 kb PDF) EXTRAS Order Now! '180 Not Out' Photographic Anthologies (94kb PDF) Listen to the Project on Radio 4 - You & Yours (mp3) - Images (276kb) Listen to the Project on Radio 4 - Open Country (mp3) Project Outreach (10 Perspectives) and Project-Clubs Relationship Pennine Cricket History Conferences 2005-10 Meet the Team (1.0mb PDF) - and our Placement Students (1.8mb PDF) Exhibition Launches and Heritage Displays A-Z Project Publications

Disclaimer

This is a not-for-profit community project which aims to collate images and other items for general public interest. We apologise if there has been any inadvertent breach of copyright. If any oversights have been made, we would be happy to rectify them.

Public Outcomes

Since 2004 the Project has had many public outcomes including the following:

Over 100 exhibitions about local cricket
Electronic cricket archive at www.ckcricketheritage.org.uk
Archives set up at Halifax and Huddersfield town libraries
Oral history interviews conducted and now broadcast on website
Cricket heritage walks devised and now downloadable
Activity packs for schools created and being distributed
Three annual Pennine Cricket History conferences held
'Bat & Ball' course staged & books, booklets and articles published

North Kirklees

South Kirklees

Calderdale

GEOGRAPHICAL AREAS

Maps Showing Local Clubs

Cricket in Calderdale

Cricket in Kirklees

Essays on Cricket in Huddersfield

Cricket in the Holme Valley

Cricket in the Colne Valley

Altitudes and Distances

SOCIAL THEMES

Asian Cricket

Caribbean Cricket

Women & Cricket

Religion & Cricket

Industry & Cricket

County Grounds: Fartown, Thrum Hall & Savile Ground

AUDIO, TEXT, IMAGES

Oral History: Memories & Reminscences

Creative Writing by Mark Whitcombe

Club History Booklets

Photographic Chronicle of 2007 Season

Photographic Chronicle of 2008 Season

Photographic Chronicle of 2009 Season

Photographic Chronicle of 2010 Season

Photographic Chronicle of 2011 Season

PROJECT

Paintings & Drawings of Local Grounds

Exhibition Launches

Special Long-Term Displays

Story of the Project

SPECIAL STUDIES

D.Peel, History of Mirfield & District Evening League, 2011

P.Davies, Say Cheese! Team Pictures from Calderdale and Kirklees: 1878 to the Present Day, 2011

P.Davies, Cuckoos and Moonrakers: The Cricket Clubs of the Colne Valley, 2011

P.Davies, Gone But Not Forgotten: The Lost Cricket Clubs of Calderdale and Kirklees, 2011

The Cricketing Heritage of Calderdale and Kirklees

• Have you got memories of cricket in the local area?

• Do you possess any old cricket club minute books or scorebooks?

• Have you got any old cricket photos or newspaper cuttings?

• Do you have any old bats and balls, pads or stumps, in your attic?

• Have you kept any old cricket trophies or medals?

If you can help, please do get in touch. You can donate materials to the archive or deposit them temporarily.

We could also come and loan items, or photocopy them, or even photograph them, for the website. We would also like to interview you if you’ve got a cricketing story to tell.

Contact Dr Peter Davies, Project Leader, via 01484 472405 or p.j.davies@hud.ac.uk

or c/o Department of History, University of Huddersfield, Queensgate, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire HD1 3DH

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