Lives in Cricket No 14 - Jack Bond

Earning £6 or £7 a week at the power company, where he had now moved to the ordering department, a young man in Jack’s position would better himself financially, during the summer months at least, if he were taken on by Lancashire, one of the more generous of the county clubs. So when the sub-committee recorded of J.D. Bond that he was ‘to be offered engagement at a weekly wage of £10 until the end of the cricket season,’ there was little to prevent Jack from accepting – except the little matter of his honeymoon. ‘ We thought you were nineteen’ 22 Jack and Florence on their wedding day in 1955. Worsley Road North Methodist Church, as it was when Jack and Florence were married.