Cricket Heritage Roadshow
A display based on research work carried out by
CK Cricket Heritage Project
at the University of Huddersfield has taken
place here in the EBCC tea room on 22nd May 2009 at 8pm.
There is a large wall display in the tea room charting the club's history. The
event was opened by Gavin Hamilton (Scotland cricket captain).
If you have any old memorabilia that you would like to bring to the opening we
would be delighted to show them at the event.
>> Cricket Heritage of East Bierley
Click on any of the images below for a larger and higher quality version.
- Dr Peter Davis wrote:
- "The East Bierley Cricket Heritage Exhibition...four
years too late! We should have done this display in 2005 with the rest of our
cricket club exhibitions but we didn't realise that the ground was 75 yards
inside Kirklees! So we ignored it, got reminded about it, and then did the
necessary research in 2008 and 2009. A great opportunity because East Bierley
are a big Bradford League club with a beautiful ground.
The launch went well with fantastic buffet food courtesy of the EB tea ladies
and some VIP guests including Alan Birkenshaw, Mike Baker and Bob Shackleton
from the Bradford League and Scotland skipper, England Test cricketer and East
Bierley star all-rounder Gavin Hamilton. He said a few words at the start and
then took part in the end-of-evening picture quiz. Some of my female friends
were drooling over his good looks and sportsman's body! He said he was
disappointed that Scotland had now been overtaken by Ireland in the world of
international cricket and that he was happy to take on the captaincy. I had
googled 'Gavin Hamilton Scotland' the night before and the articles all said
he was determined to give Scottish cricket a kick up the backside so that the
country could revisit its former glories. They'd just beaten Kent in the
Friends Provident so he was reasonably happy!
The winner of the picture quiz was Ian Ormondroyd - Bradford City footballing
legend and East Bierley's Bradford League representative!"
