CRICKET FROM THE NORTH: Arthington - August 1901

Wednesday, 7 March 2018

Arthington - August 1901

Posted by Tony Hutton

Today's offering of cricketing memorabilia comes from our Headingley correspondent, Brian Senior, who researches old newspapers in search of unusual cricket reports. This one comes from the Armley and Wortley News and is something of a classic. The Arthington cricket festival, as regular readers will know features in these columns from mid September to mid October every year.

If only BT Sport had been around in those days and we could see some really sensational action.

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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.