A question answered

posted by John Winn

Passing the time in Northallerton today while my car was serviced I went into the library where they hold a reference copy of Welbury: a local history, the book to which I referred to in yesterday's posting. Edited by Angela Ovenston and Mike O'Carroll the book was a millennium project and there is a chapter headed Social and Sporting activities in which there is a picture of the team that won 'the league cup' in 1949. The text reveals however that rather than being a Langbaurgh League competition it was for The Northallerton and District League.

There is also a team photograph with tea ladies taken in 1974 but cricket in the village appears to have died out not long after this time. The book describes two grounds on which the club played, one in Bell's Lane and one by the station where passenger services ceased in 1954. Next time I am in that area, a little north of Northallerton, I shall visit the village and look for signs of the two grounds.