The Summer Field

213 Sources Chapter One: Chimneys and Fields Archive material: At Somerset record office, Taunton: W.P.Hayter’s 1894 diary, file A/CLP/1/1; and Ham Hill club records, DD/LV7. Newspapers: You can read the Sydney Morning Herald online at the ‘Trove’ part of the website of the National Library of Australia. Rushcutter Bay game: SMH , January 26, 1933, pages 9 (report), 12 (photo) and 15 (scorecard). ‘Mr Pips’: the Nottingham Free Press, August 17, 1860, Nottingham public library. The Derby Mercury and Ashbourne Telegraph are kept at the Magic Attic local history centre in Swadlincote, Derbyshire. Western Daily Press upstairs in Bristol central library; the Loughborough Echo in Loughborough library; the Hull Daily News in Hull History Centre. For two examples of how persistent ‘proper’ village cricket is, see Reflections from a Village , by Frank Swinnerton (1969) for a 1956 centenary match in an unnamed home counties village; and the letter by Roger Hart of Witham, Essex, Times , December 2, 2013. Books: Outfield shared with local fauna: Peace and War: A Soldier’s Life , by Lieutenant- General Sir Frederick Morgan (1961), page 94. Cricket in North Hants: Records and Reminiscences, by Lieutenant-Colonel John May of Basingstoke (1906), Portsmouth library. Chapter Two: Clubbing Together Archive material: ‘Hedon and Holderness gentlemen’, file DCC 45/41; and Langton Wold club, DDSQ/ X3/7/1: East Riding Archives, Beverley. East Riding Constabulary records: Beverley, file POL 3/3/8/41. Renishaw Ironworks club records: file D6817/1/1, Derbyshire record office, Matlock. Beverley Town club records, file DDBD 5/148, Beverley. Yorkshire Gentlemen’s club’s check on AM Ivey: file U DDFA X5/13/988, Hull History Centre. Newspapers : English Public Schools Association lunch for bodyline tourists: Sydney Morning Herald , January 26, 1933. Sheffield Independent at Sheffield central library; Walsall Observer, Walsall local history centre; the Herts and Cambs Reporter, Cambridge public library; the Beverley Guardian and East Riding Chronicle, Beverley; and the Torquay Directory , Torquay library. Books: Good clubs and correct behaviour; The Corner Stone of English Cricket , by Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable Gerald French (1948), page 141. Sussex Cricket , by A.E.R.Gilligan (1933), Brighton library. Chapter Three: Making the Grades Archive material : Burton Hunt League records: file Misc Dep 660/1, Lincolnshire Archives, Lincoln. Nutting letter to E.E.Snow: file DE 5886/12, Leicestershire record office, Leicester. Hull club fixture book for 1914: DDX 1178/6/3, Hull History Centre. Job applications for Durham City professional-coach job, 1920: file D/DCC/71, Durham record office. Newspapers: Leamington Spa Courier in Leamington public library; the Burton Observer at the Magic Attic; and the Bridgnorth Journal in Bridgnorth library. Books: Yorkshire Cricket Council 1899-1952 , compiled by Thomas Harrison, (1952), page 9, for why the council formed. The History of the Walsall Cricket Club , by Benjamin Evans (1909), at Walsall local history centre.