LIves in Cricket No 31 - Walter Robins

9 Early Years in Staffordshire to the committee, on which he served continuously from 1905 to 1911. Veral Robins was also elected a member in 1904 and Vernon in 1905. Sometime in the summer of 1904, the young Mabel Scott entered the life of Vivian Robins. Daughter of a wealthy mining engineer, John Scott, living at Kidderminster in Worcestershire, she had come to stay in Stafford with a friend whose father was the Lord Lieutenant of the county. Mabel was glad to be escaping the restrictions of a home where her father imposed strict rules of behaviour on his three daughters. At Stafford discipline was more relaxed and Mabel and Miss Williamson were even allowed to go horse-riding together without a chaperone. On one of their rides they encountered Vivian Robbins on his bicycle and he was able to offer some assistance to the riders. Further meetings took place between Mabel and Vivian alone and towards the end of her visit a clandestine marriage took place. Mabel returned home where she intended to wait until she heard from Vivian that he had made arrangements for her to join him and that their marriage could be announced. But her secret was revealed and after an argument with her father Mabel went back to Stafford earlier than she and Vivian had planned but was immediately welcomed into the home of the Robins family. Modest beginnings. Robbie was born in this street in Stafford in June 1906. Photograph taken in February 2013.