Cricket Witness No 5 - Whites on Green

84 Wartime and after But it was not all doom and gloom within Glamorgan’s ranks as the well- attended game had boosted Glamorgan’s accounts. £4,842 was taken on the gate, of which £934 went in entertainment tax and £1,766 to the Indians, whilst the scorecards brought in £121 5s 6d. It also heralded a return to normal in the calendar for the sports-lovers of Swansea and its environs, and mirroring the rebuilding work taking place in the town’s bomb-damaged centre, the fact that Glamorgan, and their mix of old and new faces, were playing again on a regular basis at the ground overlooking Swansea Bay, provided an appetising mix of comfort and hope for those who had suffered the depravities of war both at home and on foreign fields. 1. J.H. Morgan, Glamorgan County Cricket (Convoy Publications, 1952). 2. J.Arlott, Indian Summer (Longmans Green and Company, 1947). 3. ibid It’s business as usual at St. Helen’s in 1946 as a large crowd watch the action in Glamorgan’s Championship match against Leicestershire.