Lives in Cricket No 46 - George Raikes

121 note 4: Other towns in Norfolk also had annual festivals which were more or less fixed in the calendar – Norwich, Cromer, Sheringham, Hunstanton and Sedgeford were all so endowed. note 5: ‘K’ was one of George’s many nieces. She was christened Lilias Kathleen Cochrane Raikes but was universally known as ‘K’. note 6: For those with a telephone, he was contactable on Great Ayton 7. note 7: At one point the Raikes’s considered moving to a retirement home – perhaps in Wells – but Maud fretted that the beds might be uncomfortable. When it was suggested that she could take her own beds with her, she responded “Oh, ours are terribly uncomfortable.” note 8: After George’s death Mrs Jackson ‘downsized’ to the Old Rectory at Holcombe, which was smaller and cheaper to keep in good working order. note 9: Joan Margaret Raikes was married to Rev Myles Kenneth Raikes. note 10: On being questioned on this point, Peter Wynne-Thomas, the chronicler of all things Nottinghamshire, replied that there was no evidence that Raikes was ever considered as a player for the Midlands county. The Rector of Bergh Apton - The End of a Muscular Christian