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220 Chapter Eighteen: Pitches Archive material: George Thorp diary, file L DIGT, Hull. Addington Park club: file A/AKO/1/11, Taunton. Sir Julien Cahn presenting £500 to Leicestershire, and 1935 letter to club: file DG42/10, Leicester. Pennycook on retirement to Hove, Fission Fragments, issue ten, June 1967, file DE4591/Box11, Leicester. Newspapers : ‘Lively’ Okehampton, Western Daily Mercury, July 13, 1864. Wretched Pocklington ground, Beverley Guardian, June 9, 1877. More good clubs than good grounds: Burton Chronicle , March 2, 1950. Tarpaulin at ends of pitch: Derby Daily Telegraph , June 14, 1920; and whole pitch, Burton Daily Mail , September 5, 1907. Ground-keeper Rigby: Torquay Times , August 25, 1880 and August 10, 1887. Ted Leyland as father of Maurice: Nuneaton Chronicle , June 20, 1930 for example: Nuneaton library. Slack Durham City members: Durham County Advertiser , March 12, 1909. No nets better than bad nets: Lichfield Mercury , May 29, 1936. Books : Heinrich Boell on the English lawn, Missing Persons and other essays (1977), page 9. Natural Dorset down turf: Memoirs of an Amateur Musician, by Edmund Fellowes, (1946), page 38. No end of reminiscences include games on pavements or ‘recs’: for a cinders pitch, see Figures in a Bygone Landscape: A Lancashire Childhood , by Don Haworth (1986), pages 176-9. Chapter Nineteen: Watching Archive material: ‘The Voice’, Leciestershire 1963 yearbook, file DG42/251, Leicester. Newspapers: An American at Lord’s: Bristol Evening Post , August 13, 1944. Plaindealer at Trent Bridge: Ashbourne Telegraph , June 18, 1926. Running fire of appeals: Derby Mercury , September 26, 1849. Flying machine stops match: Ashbourne Telegraph , June 26, 1914. Ovation for late-arriving WG: Derby Mercury , August 19, 1874. Steve Bloomer: Derbyshire Advertiser , August 20, 1926. George V praised as sportsman: Sheffield Green Un , June 24, 1911; and Plaindealer, Ashbourne Telegraph , May 23, 1930. Arthur Henderson defending workers’ rights: Derby Football Express , October 30, 1909. Uncropped picture of Sutcliffe, Hutton and Boycott: Sheffield Telegraph , August 15, 1977; or An Eye for Cricket , by Patrick Eagar and John Arlott (1979), page 196; or Cricket Reflections: Five Decades of Cricket Photographs (1989), page 125. Lustily cheering Sunderland visitors: Durham County Advertiser , July 26, 1912. Fielder told to ‘soop laad’: Ashbourne Telegraph , June 18, 1926. On ‘grass chewers’: Times , January 31, 1933. Barracking in Ballarat: Sydney Morning Herald , January 25, 1933. ‘Stentorian voice’: London Evening Standard , January 16, 1933. Chants at Leeds: Yorkshire Post , July 26, 1968. Complaint about transistors: YP , August 1, 1968. Packer ‘razzamatazz’: Country Life , May 17, 1979. Plea for soft music: Nottingham Evening Post , June 8, 1964. Slow handclap: YP , July 31, 1968. Slow batsmen warned to be careful: Walsall Observer , May 22, 1909. Books: Portrait of a Village by Francis Brett Young (1937), pages 136-8. County game as ‘millstone’: Pommies , by William Buckland (2008), page 241. Barbed wire as insult to Kennington Oval patrons: Surrey 1971 yearbook, page 43. Oval litter: Surrey 1967 yearbook, page 29; and 1975, page 43. For foreign views see Anyone But England: An Outsider looks at English Cricket , by Mike Marquesee (third edition, 2005) and The British , by Drew Middleton (1957), page 242. Trevor Peacock: conversation at Bomber Command veterans’ gathering on The Strand, London, Sunday morning, June 5, 2011. Chapter Twenty: Women Archive material: Mrs Tattersall’s reply: C/DSUS/3/4, Hull. Women membership according to Yorkshire yearbooks: DDX 1690, Beverley. Newspapers: Appeal to women to hold a bazaar: Torquay Directory , August 3, 1864. Creditable gentler sex: Montgomery County Times, June 13, 1896. Weaker sex: Western Morning News , August 21, 1882. Exchange of letters: Derby Evening Telegraph , May 2 and 3, 1933. Women’s works match: South Devon Times , July 13, Sources