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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… grandstand was erected in 1846 and demolished in 1876. 128 Cricket was played at Marlborough in 1774 when Marlborough … c. 1881. 130 In the late 19th century Wiltshire County Cricket Club occasionally played matches at Marlborough. 131 …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Upper Lode. 38 A rowing club was formed in 1835 39 and a cricket club some time before 1845. 40 In the 20th century …
A History of the County of Warwick
… Hampton Road in the early years of the 20th century and a cricket field was established by 1904. 13 More residential …
A History of the County of Warwick
… in the provinces. 48 During the 19th century golf and cricket seem to have been the most popular sports in the … club was using the Pigwells by 1911. 50 The Warwick Old Cricket Club was founded in 1841, and the Warwick New Club …
Old and New London
… the school is in Goswell Street. The Upper Green was the cricket-ground of the "Uppers." The gravel walk to the left … the indiscriminate fagging inflicted by strangers. The cricket-fagging was the worst. I have been kept stopping … unfastened at seven o'clock, and school began at eight. Cricket was the chief game in the summer quarter; during the …
A History of the County of Warwick
… a place for walks, and plenty of room for bowls. 65 Cricket was not played very much although there were matches … as elsewhere, was the growth of organized sport. Local cricket predated this tendency. A Coventry cricket team had played a match against Barwell (Leics.) in …
A History of the County of Warwick
… reserved to the inhabitants the privilege of playing cricket and other games there, although grazing was still …
A History of the County of Durham
… races were run on the Smiddyhaughs, now the University cricket ground. This annual institution continued until 1887 …
A History of the County of Leicester
… pay a fairly heavy subscription there was the Wharf Street cricket ground, opened in 1825 on a site near Humberstone … up. 269 The ground possessed a bowling green as well as a cricket pitch and was used for entertainments of various …
A History of the County of Hertford
… Blundell Maple, the desire of the donor being to encourage cricket and other manly sports, the Herts County Cricket Club to have priority of user of the latter ground; …