75 th Northern Cricket Anniversary

 By Brian Sanderson

        On Tuesday evening at the Sandmoor Golf Club ,there will

be pie and pea dinner together with a talk my Steven Patterson

ex Yorkshire captain.

This a celebration of the establishment of the Northern Cricket

Society on the 31 January 1948 at the Queens Hotel Leeds.

The photograph above on the left is Norman Yardley who

was one of the first patrons of the Society. In the middle

is Ron Yeoman who was the first Secretary who helped

to establish the Society. On the right is Sir William

Worsley another Patron.

The photograph of the Bramhope side coming out

at the start of a Boxing Day match in the 1950's.

The Society was famous for holding dinners for

visiting International sides . The first being in 1948

on the 26 July when the Australians were playing

at Headingley. Two of the speakers were Neville Cardus

and A.E.R.Gilligan who captain England in 1920's.

The photograph above is of the South African dinner 

of 1955 which took place on the 20 July.