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214 Chapter Four: What Was Cricket Like? Archive material: Shields letter to E.E.Snow: file DE 5886/1, Leicester. Equipment outfitters’ late 1930s brochures: file POL 3/3/8/41, Beverley. E.J.Riley of Accrington and Duke’s adverts in Durham county club handbook for 1914, file D/X 608/44, Durham. You can view Constable’s Flatford Mill at Tate Britain at Millbank, London. For Corfe club book (of the village south of Taunton, not the south coast castle), file A/DGY, Taunton. Woolavington club papers: file D/P/Wool/23/5, Taunton. Henry Vane-Tempest diaries, file LO/F/516, Durham. Newspapers: The 1936 articles in the name of players were from the Lichfield Mercury , read at Lichfield record office. London Evening Standard at the British Library newspaper archive at Colindale (since moved); the Sheffield Green Un and Sheffield Evening Star in Sheffield library; the Wisbech Advertiser in Cambridge library; the Burton Weekly News at the Magic Attic; and the Derby Daily Telegraph in Derby local studies library. The ‘strolling musicians’ and hospitality of Evelyn Ashley MP: from the Western Gazette , read at Taunton. Royston Town club in 1913: the Herts and Cambs Reporter . J.W.Hearne in 1911: from Sheffield Green Un . Alfred Shaw interview: Cricket magazine, May 10, 1900, read at Lord’s library. I interviewed Tom Austin at his Hertfordshire home, May 2011. Books: Cricket and character: Herbert Sutcliffe, For England and Yorkshire (1935), page 118. Oxford University servant Fred Bickerton’s memoir Fred of Oxford was for sale outside Porlock library when I passed on a walking holiday at Easter 2011; rather than buy it and carry it I noted what was of interest to me. Is the book still there?! The Complete Cricketer , by Albert Knight (1905), read at Leicestershire record office. Chapter Five: Why Cricket? Archive material: John Yonge’s diary: Plymouth record office. Will Richards’ diary: file DD2641, Nottinghamshire record office, Nottingham. The Butterflies club booklet was among Freeman Barnardo’s papers: file D272/7/4, Lichfield record office. W.E.Astill’s 1936 letter: among E.E.Snow’s papers, Leicester. Tom Gould from Burton club secretary’s notebook, file D441/7/4, Lichfield. Fred Root’s 1907 contract, file DG42/275 and Frederick Daft’s, 1900, file DG42/279, Leicester. Leicestershire county club finance committee minutes, file DG42/10, Leicester. Newspapers: Dursley Gazette at Gloucestershire record office, Gloucester; The Field at Colindale; the Yorkshire Post and Country Life at Leeds central library; and the Western Daily Mercury at Plymouth library. The Cricketer magazine, and Wisden Cricketers’ Almanacks , read at Lord’s. C.E.Hare on his ‘future business career’ reported in, for example, Wolverhampton Express and Star , August 25, 1937. Dick Pougher obituary, Leicester Sports Mercury , May 22, 1926, Leicester. Herbert Strudwick from the Sheffield Green Un , June 10, 1911. Books: Cricketer’s hopes and fears the same as others’: Cricket – The Silver Lining , by Cyril Washbrook (1950), from the preface. Autumn Foliage , by Cyril Foley (1935), page 32, and Wickets and Goals: Stories of play , by J.A.H.Catton (1926), page 6, Lord’s library. Lord Desborough essay, ‘Sport of many kinds’ from Fifty years memories and contrasts. A Composite picture of the period 1882-1932 by 27 contributors to the Times (1932), page 201. Chapter Six: Who Was A Cricketer? Archive material: Denis Hendren and Durham City, from club minute book: file D/ DCC 68, Durham. Newspapers: World of Cricket magazine at Lord’s; the Nottingham Journal at Nottingham library; the Derbyshire Advertiser at the Magic Attic. Pelham Warner’s speech at the Leicester dinner for the Australian tourists: Leicester Sports Mercury , May 1, 1926. For Surrey larks in Chesterfield, Nottingham Post , July 1, 1909. See Frank Sugg’s column: in the Leicester Sports Mercury , for example. Sources