Download or read book Britain s Lost Cricket Grounds written by Chris Arnot and published by Aurum Press Limited. This book was released on 2014-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From county grounds where Denis Compton hit a century to the smallest village field Britain’s Lost Cricket Grounds movingly shows how picturesque greenery gave way to shopping malls and housing estates. The cricket ground is as much a part of the British landscape as the parish church. Hastings used to have a historic ground in the middle of the town surrounded by elegant houses – but then recently it disappeared under a shopping precinct with a branch of River Island where the wicket used to be. Yorkshire used to play at Sheffield’s Bramall Lane – until the football club built grandstands over it. Like so many companies with works grounds, Guinness have closed their cricket ground at Park Royal and sold it for an industrial estate. Now, in a further addition to Aurum’s successful ‘Lost’ series, following Britain’s Lost Cities and Lost Victorian Britain, Guardian journalist Chris Arnot tours the country in search of our most lamented lost cricket grounds, hearing reminiscences from former players and spectators, and finding what, if anything, is left nowadays, apart from the poignant photographs of their picturesque heyday that make this a nostalgic and rueful trip back in time.
Download or read book Britain s Lost Cricket Festivals written by Chris Arnot and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cricket festival - when one of the county cricket clubs takes a week or so of games out of its home ground to a club ground somewhere else in the county, and attracts a large and festive crowd to a bucolic arena fringed with white marquees, beer tents and deckchairs - is a declining phenomenon. This follow-up to 'Britain's Lost Cricket Grounds' visits 30 lost festival grounds from Bournemouth to Abergavenny, Weston-super-Mare to Harrogate, and talks to former players, ground staff, club secretaries and spectators to re-live the days when the world's finest players came to town for one week only, packed the beer tent and thrilled the crowds.
Download or read book Cricket Grounds Then and Now written by Brian Levison and published by . This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of beloved cricket grounds from around the world. Using a Then and Now format, historic pictures of cricket grounds are paired with their modern-day equivalent to show the dramatic changes that have taken place.
Download or read book London s Lost Cricket Grounds written by John Goulstone (Historian) and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cricket Grounds written by William A. Powell and published by Specialist Marketing International. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cricket Grounds from the Air written by Zaki Cooper and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents aerial views of Britain's leading county grounds together with a history of each ground and vital facts and figures about the county.
Download or read book Cricket Grounds written by Roger D. C. Evans and published by STRI. This book was released on 1991 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering all aspects of cricket groundsmanship, this text sets the maintenance of modern cricket grounds in historical context by a survey of the groundsman's art since the 1600s. The work details the history of groundsmanship either side of World War II, looking at the modern role of agronomists and other scientists in the study of cricket surfaces. Subsequent topics include: the assessment of an existing table; pitch preparation; mechanized maintenance operations; fertilizer and top dressing; weed, moss, worm and pest control; renovation and repair; and care of the outfield. A chapter is devoted to the planning and construction of new grounds.
Download or read book The Shorter Wisden 2011 2015 written by Scyld Berry and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 1850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shorter Wisden is a compelling distillation of what's best in its bigger brother. Available from all major eBook retailers, Wisden's digital version includes the influential Notes by the Editor, all the front-of-book articles, reviews, obituaries and all England's Tests from the previous season. Brought together for the first time, here are the first five editions of The Shorter Wisden, distilled from the Almanacks published between 2011 and 2015.
Download or read book Shadowlands A Journey Through Britain s Lost Cities and Vanished Villages written by Matthew Green and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2022 A “brilliant London historian” (BBC Radio) tells the story of Britain as never before—through its abandoned villages and towns. Drowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff. This is the extraordinary tale of Britain’s eerie and remarkable ghost towns and villages; shadowlands that once hummed with life. Peering through the cracks of history, we find Dunwich, a medieval city plunged off a cliff by sea storms; the abandoned village of Wharram Percy, wiped out by the Black Death; the lost city of Trellech unearthed by moles in 2002; and a Norfolk village zombified by the military and turned into a Nazi, Soviet, and Afghan village for training. Matthew Green, a British historian and broadcaster, tells the astonishing tales of the rise and demise of these places, animating the people who lived, worked, dreamed, and died there. Traveling across Britain to explore their haunting and often-beautiful remains, Green transports the reader to these lost towns and cities as they teeter on the brink of oblivion, vividly capturing the sounds of the sea clawing away row upon row of houses, the taste of medieval wine, or the sights of puffin hunting on the tallest cliffs in the country. We experience them in their prime, look on at their destruction, and revisit their lingering remains as they are mourned by evictees and reimagined by artists, writers, and mavericks. A stunning and original excavation of Britain’s untold history, Shadowlands gives us a truer sense of the progress and ravages of time, in a moment when many of our own settlements are threatened as never before.
Download or read book The Great Romantic written by Duncan Hamilton and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neville Cardus described how one majestic stroke-maker 'made music' and 'spread beauty' with his bat. Between two world wars, he became the laureate of cricket by doing the same with words. In The Great Romantic, award-winning author Duncan Hamilton demonstrates how Cardus changed sports journalism for ever. While popularising cricket - while appealing, in Cardus' words to people who 'didn't know a leg-break from the pavilion cat at Lord's'- he became a star in his own right with exquisite phrase-making, disdain for statistics and a penchant for literary and musical allusions. Among those who venerated Cardus were PG Wodehouse, John Arlott, Harold Pinter, JB Priestley and Don Bradman. However, behind the rhapsody in blue skies, green grass and colourful characters, this richly evocative biography finds that Cardus' mother was a prostitute, he never knew his father and he received negligible education. Infatuations with younger women ran parallel to a decidedly unromantic marriage. And, astonishingly, the supreme stylist's aversion to factual accuracy led to his reporting on matches he never attended. Yet Cardus also belied his impoverished origins to prosper in a second class-conscious profession, becoming a music critic of international renown. The Great Romantic uncovers the dark enigma within a golden age.
Download or read book Britain s Lost Mines written by Chris Arnot and published by Aurum Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed author of Britain's Lost Cricket Grounds and Britain's Lost Breweries, comes a journey underground to the mines that built the nation and defined a century. Twenty minutes from the Regency elegance of Bath and half an hour from the Glastonbury Festival, you might notice looming over the Somerset village of Paulton what appears to be a dormant volcano. In reality it is a colliery spoil tip, and one of the few reminders that until the 1970s men worked here far beneath the green fields of England - digging for coal. Walk the clifftop path hugging the Cornish coast: those gaunt brick chimneys and wind-ravelled winding-houses are the ruins of a once vast tin-mining industry. Until very recent times hundreds of thousands of men dug deep underground - sometimes miles out under the sea - for all kinds of minerals and ores, from slate in North Wales to gold in Dorset. Their labour was the most backbreaking of all, amidst swirling dust and sweltering temperatures, and the mines they descended scarred and re-made the landscape. But the closure of Daw Mill colliery in Warwickshire in 2013 confirmed the almost total demise of this once-ubiquitous and proud industry, whose pithead baths and winding-wheels have since disappeared under retail parks, football stadia or at best become part of the heritage industry. Now, in Britain's Lost Mines, Chris Arnot seeks out thirty lost mines within Britain's shores, from Scotland to Kent, where men mined anything from fluorspar to salt, iron ore to copper, and re-discovers the unique culture that spawned brass bands and male voice choirs, terrifying fast bowlers and rock-hard rugby league players. Illustrated throughout with a stunning array of photographs, and filled with the reminiscences of the ex-miners he meets, he evokes a vanished and truly remarkable way of life for men who did not just work together, but played, sang and drank together as brothers under dust-encrusted skin, looking out for one another as they risked their lives daily. Within a generation, most of our miners will no longer be with us; this mesmerising book will help ensure their history is in no danger of being buried forever.
Download or read book Cricket Grounds written by William A. Powell and published by . This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Shorter Wisden 2012 written by Bloomsbury Publishing and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shorter Wisden is a compelling distillation of what's best in its bigger brother. Available from all major eBook retailers, Wisden's digital version includes the influential Notes by the Editor, all the front-of-book articles, reviews, obituaries and all England's Tests from the 2011 season.
Download or read book Defunct Cricket Grounds in England written by Source Wikipedia and published by Booksllc.Net. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 80. Chapters: Angel Ground, Antelope Ground, Ashford Road, Ashton Club Ground, B. M. Close's Ground, Baker Perkins Sports Ground, Barker's Ground, Bestwood Park Cricket Ground, Beverley Ground, Bishopsbourne Paddock, Boothferry Park, Botanical Gardens Cricket Ground, Bowman's Lodge, Bramall Lane, British Aerospace Company Ground, Broughton Cricket Club Ground, Bullingdon Green, Burton-on-Trent Cricket Ground, Castleton Cricket Club Ground, Caterham Common, Cattle Market Ground, Cemetry Road, Central Recreation Ground, Hastings, Chalvey Road, Cheden Holt, Cheriton Road, Chiswick Park Cricket Ground, Clifton Villa Estate, Cobham Park (cricket ground), College Ground, Loughborough, County Cricket Ground, Southampton, County Ground, Lakenham, County Ground, Stoke-on-Trent, Courages Cricket Ground, Courtaulds Ground, Coventry Road, Coxheath Common, Crabble Athletic Ground, Crystal Palace Park Cricket Ground, Dandelion Paddock, Darnall New Ground, Darnall Old Ground, Dewsbury and Savile Ground, Durdham Down, East Gloucestershire Cricket Club Ground, East Sussex Cricket Ground, Ellerman Lines Cricket Ground, Epsom Down, Erinoid Ground, E Tredcroft's Ground, Fartown Ground, Huddersfield, Ferham Park, Forest New Ground, Foxgrove Road, Beckenham, Fox and Goose Ground, Garrison 1 Cricket Ground, Garrison Stadium (cricket ground), Gigg Lane, GP Codie's Ground, Guildford Bason, Harlow Sportcentre, Hatton Park, Wellingborough, Hawkhurst Moor, Hensted Park, Holt Pound, Hyde Park Ground, Ideal Clothiers Ground, Imperial Athletic Ground, Itchin Stoke Down, John Player Ground, JW Hobbs Ground, Kennington Park, Lamb's Conduit Field, Langton Park, Lillie Bridge Grounds, Lillywhite's Ground, Linthorpe Road West (Cricket Ground), Lord's Middle Ground, Lord's Old Ground, Manor Ground, Bexhill-on-Sea, Meadow Road, Beeston, Merefield Ground, Michelin...
Download or read book Going to the Cricket written by Robin Osmond and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Official ECB Guide to Cricket Grounds written by William Powell and published by Sutton Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2003-04-24 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only official England and Wales Cricket Board guide to the grounds used for Test and County cricket in England and Wales includes a plan of every ground featured, details of how to get there, advice on places to stay and places to eat, ground histories and records.
Download or read book Snow Stopped Play written by Graham Coster and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
