Old Photographs: Cricket
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Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire
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Group photographs of cricket teams seem to be less common than those of football teams.
On 26th June 1880 The Wiltshire Times reported a meeting was held at the Swan Hotel for the purpose of forming a town cricket club.
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A group photograph that was taken on the occasion of a match between the Bradford rubber works cricket team and a visiting team from the London office of the George Spencer Rubber Company, probably between 1925 and 1935. The location is the Spencer Moulton sports ground in Trowbridge Road; the pavilion still exists, with some alterations. The photographer has made them all look to their right to get their faces in profile.
A cricket team of the George Spencer, Moulton Company from before the First World War. In this case the names are given: back row, left to right: J.A. Tormey, F. Norris, H. Harford, W. Spender, C. Solomon, F. Moore; middle row:W.R. Straw, B.R. Bradley, B.C. Barton, W.E. Wickham, W. Vennell; in front: S. Miller and W. Uncles.
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Another cricket team, but we have no information about who they may be, although some of the faces are familiar.
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A cricket team from the former Fitzmaurice Grammar School from before 1939. Eric Truman is seated on the far right and Dan Windo is holding the cup -can anyone identify any of the others?
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Members of Berryfield Cricket Club in the 1927-1928 season. They played on the land of Berryfield House, the mansion that later became Bradford’s Hospital and has now been developed for housing.
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Winsley Cricket Club members on the verandah of their pavilion