Dimming of the Day

Thanks to Contributors Though my name is on the cover, this book is in essence a collaboration between a number of ACS members, and I am deeply grateful to all of them. The original idea was Roger Moulton’s and he left me to run with it as I pleased. There was also important support from John Bryant. Professor Eric Midwinter kindly wrote a piece which is now the foreword of the book. Other contributors who researched what had happened in their own localities (and here in no particular order) included Stephen Musk (Norfolk), David Main (Scotland), Jack Gillett (Kent), Stephen Baldwin (Leamington), David Pracy (Essex), Dave Boorman (Sussex), Chris Overson (Harrow), Keith Walmsley (Berkshire), Julian Lawton Smith (Oxfordshire), Andrew Hignell (Wales), Mick Pope and Mark Rowe. I am also grateful to the Lord’s library for the chance to read World of Cricket and to Phil Hadwen for the loan of a number of county histories. I should also like to thank Roger Moulton for his work as editor, Ric Finlay and John Ward for proofreading and Jenny Moulton for compiling the index. I am most grateful to the following who provided pictures: David Griffin (Derbyshire), Andrew Hignell (Neath CC), Roger Gibbons (Gloucestershire), Dave Allen (Hampshire), David Robertson (Kent), Richard Holdridge (Leicestershire), John Watson Northamptonshire), Peter Wynne- Thomas (Nottinghamshire), Steve Hill (Somerset), Bill Gordon (Surrey), Sussex Cricket Museum (Sussex), Phil Britt (Warwickshire), Tim Jones (Worcestershire), Mick Pope and Brian Sanderson (Yorkshire), Tim Jones for producing the Essex/Worcestershire photograph and David Pracy for his help in identifying the Essex players, Mary-Louise Rowland (Hurstpierpoint College), Alexandra Aslett (St Paul’s School) and Tom Moulton (St Lawrence College). I must also thank Emily Sweetman for designing the cover and also all those at City Press involved in typesetting and printing. 118