Lives in Cricket No 49 - Enid Bakewell

39 After Dartford A later reference said ‘they acquitted themselves well’. Although the Cricketer , as promised, did have a column on women’s cricket, it was basically a column of observations by Netta Rheinberg and later by Rachael Heyhoe. Volume 49, number four includes a brief sketch of Enid under ‘Tourist tales’: ‘… age 27, started playing when she was nine. Before she married she was a teacher of PE in Nottingham, now works part-time as she has a small daughter to look after. Enid bats right-handed and bowls left- handed medium pace. She made her name playing for Notts and the Midlands as Enid Turton. Also plays representative hockey.’ The reference to ‘medium pace’ suggests she was still not as well known as all that. Enid says: ‘ I was working at Newstead then Annesley old school. This was before the 1968-69 tour to raise the air fare to Australia, £603. I was helping at Newstead and this was convenient as mum and dad looked after Lorna and lived half mile away. The headmaster’s wife at Annesley school had been teaching there but her baby sitters had to go home so there was a class to teach! Forty-plus five, six, seven year old children in a room used as a staff room with open coal fire – it did have a guard though. I was on the go all break time to prepare enough work for the children after break. The headmaster used to ask me to sit down but I told him that the children would have nothing to do if I did! So I worked at the Annesley old school and raised the money - friends and neighbours helped by holding a coffee morning. They had a fish and chip shop opposite where we lived and later their daughter Marie used to come over to play with our three. I could never persuade her to invest her money on the Monopoly board but she now has a family who must be grown up near Market Rasen in Lincolnshire. “I was living in the [old] family home at 97 Forest Road, Annesley Woodhouse, Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Nottingham.’