Lives in Cricket No 15 - Michael Falcon

many years. 55 He also joined the board of Great Yarmouth Water Works. These new jobs allowed him to sell up in Essex and return to live in his beloved Norfolk – which was probably their main attraction. In 1931 Falcon rented Burlingham House, a sizeable property, built in 1790, in North Burlingham, a village midway between Norwich and Great Yarmouth, from Frank Price, a local man in the retailing business. He subsequently bought the property which was to become his home for the next thirty-eight years. Whilst residence in Essex had not prevented him from turning out for Norfolk as a player any more than being an MP had, he had been unable to play much of a role in the administration of cricket in his home county whilst living so far away. His move to Burlingham House gave him the opportunity to rejoin the likes of C.B.L.Prior and R.G.Pilch in looking after the management of Norfolk cricket and to participate Elder Statesman: 1930-1939 93 The former Lacon brewery warehouse in Great Yarmouth, showing the company’s falcon trade mark. The site is now partly occupied by a casino. 55 Not surprisingly, first-class cricketers have had something of a predilection for brewery directorships. Between the wars, about twenty such players were brewery directors, including Frank Mann, Falcon’s former Cambridge colleague, referred to earlier in this tale. The Lacon board during Falcon’s time included C.E.Lucas, who had played occasionally for Cambridge University and Sussex between 1906 and 1908.