While friends and relations are jetting off to such exotic locations as Barbados and St Moritz for their winter holidays we prefer somewhere much closer to home for a short mid winter break. Where else but Scarborough of course. A quick look at the North Marine Road ground and hotel bookings made for cricketing visits in June, July and August.
A day in Whitby, still recovering from recent flooding, found a couple of excellent second hand book shops and a chance to browse through a few cricket books.
Came across Scyld Berry's recent book and was surprised to see a picture purporting to be of Lascelles Hall cricket club, rightly praised as the cradle of Yorkshire cricket.
However the picture, which I have seen wrongly attributed before, is certainly not Lascelles Hall, but a view from a ground on the north west side side of Huddersfield, probably near Huddersfield New College at Salendine Nook judging by the distant view of Castle Hill. I will consult our Huddersfield friends at our next meeting.
This was not the only mistake I spotted, coming across a copy of Alan Hill's book on Herbert Sutcliffe, I found a photograph of the Yorkshire team of the 1930s going out onto a ground which Mr Hill obviously thought was Bradford Park Avenue. Clearly it is not the Park Avenue pavilion in the background, but more obviously Fartown at Huddersfield.
All a bit surprising to find two such well known cricket authors probably being led astray by others who provided the photographs.
After the day in Whitby it was off down the east coast exploring the delights of Bridlington, Hornsea and Withernsea, before arriving as near to Spurn Point as one can get these days. Lots of protests everywhere against the large new tourist centre being proposed. A quick look at Easington where I spent many boyhood holidays during and just after the Second World war. Unfortunately the White Horse Inn was closed.
So it was back inland in search of refreshment to Patrington where the cricket ground has been on my list to visit for several years. It was easy to find on the south side of the majestic St Patrick's Church, known as the Queen of Holderness with it's 189 foot spire. The ground is appropriately named Southside and the club's website states that the church is regarded by learned scholars as the most beautiful parish church in the entirety of England.
Patrington, which is not far from the Greenwich Meridian and sixteen miles east of Hull, is probably as far east in Yorkshire that you can find cricket being played, although it only just beats the neighbouring village of Roos to this title. This all assumes that cricket is not played in Withernsea as the cricket club went out of existence as long ago as 1955. Cricket may still be played at Withernsea High School
but details are hard to find.
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