Thursday 28 May
Posted by Peter Davies
The Viaduct Cafe, Dean Clough Industrial Complex, Halifax for the launch of the 'Cricket & Industry in Calderdale' exhibition. The cafe was a wonderful setting - very posh and trendy - and the display boards looked good in the nearby thoroughfare which, it was claimed, carries 62,000 people per year to the Dean Clough toilets! Special guests were Halifax expert Dr John Hargreaves, ex-Mackintosh's worker and player Geoff Wright, and Todmorden authors Malcolm and Freda Heywood. Each spoke wonderfully about the importance of sport, and cricket in particular, in the context of the industrial north. There was wine - red and white - plus soft drinks and nibbles, and some good discussion about the significance of urban cricket and the role that industrialists and businesses have played in the growth and evolution of clubs. Vic Allen from Dean Clough offered some very kind words of welcome.
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- Fireworks at Shepley
- Meltham in the sun
- Into Lancashire...
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- Cricket Diary 2009 - County 2nd XI cricket
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- Joined at the hip
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About the project:
This blog was originated in 2008 as an offshoot of the separate website ‘The cricket history of Calderdale and Kirklees’ which covered in depth the histories of every league cricket club in these two areas of West Yorkshire. Unfortunately this site fell into disuse although there are now plans to reinstate it by the Yorkshire Cricket Foundation.
Meanwhile the blog has gone its own way and has expanded into a review of cricket at all levels throughout the north of England, both past and present. The three current bloggers are all Yorkshire based. Tony Hutton and John Winn are both members of Durham and Yorkshire county clubs and Brian Sanderson is an active member of the Yorkshire archives committee.
We have now recruited Lancashire based Mike Latham, well known in both cricket and rugby league circles, to provide an ever wider coverage of cricket from the north.
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