Lives in Cricket No 42 - Frank and George Mann

12 Chapter Two Winchmore Hill Cricket Club The close association of the Mann and Paulin families was increased by their apparently independent decisions to move to Winchmore Hill, Edmonton, about eight miles north of the City of London, where Thomas Mann purchased Laurel Lodge in 1858 and Thomas Paulin bought the Beaulieu estate in 1865. In 1860 Thomas Mann also bought the Roseneath estate in Vicars Moor Lane which came with eleven acres of land and he moved in with his growing family and a cook, servant and two housemaids. It appears that the 42-year-old Thomas had developed an interest in sport and by 1871 he had the paddock on the estate converted into the Winchmore Hill Cricket and Lawn Tennis Club and built a fully equipped pavilion. Membership of the club was expensive and it soon became known locally as something of a ‘Gentlemen’s’ club. In 1877 William Thomas Paulin, a partner in the company since the death of his father Thomas Paulin in 1873, married Fanny, the daughter of Thomas Mann, and they moved into the Broadfields estate with fourteen acres of farmland near Church Hill in Winchmore Hill. William Thomas was also a cricket lover and he played a leading role in the formation of Cricket thrives at the Paulin Ground. Winchmore Hill playing in 2013, with Scott Newman taking strike.