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Britain's Lost Cricket Festivals Chris Arnot

Britain's Lost Cricket Festivals By Chris Arnot

Britain's Lost Cricket Festivals by Chris Arnot


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Summary

The follow-up to Chris Arnot' s Britain' s Lost Cricket Grounds visits 30 lost festival grounds from Bournemouth to Abergavenny, Weston-super-Mare to Harrogate.

Britain's Lost Cricket Festivals Summary

Britain's Lost Cricket Festivals: The Idyllic Club Grounds that Will Never Again Host the World's Best Players by Chris Arnot

Visiting 30 lost festival grounds from Bournemouth to Abergavenny, Weston-super-Mare to Harrogate, Chris Arnot talks to former players, ground staff, club secretaries and spectators to re-live the days when the world's finest players, from Denis Compton to Barry Richards, came to town for one week only, packed the beer tent and thrilled the crowds. Armchair cricket at its best, this is an exploration of the declining phenomenon of 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, often at the seaside, and attracts a large and festive crowd to a bucolic arena fringed with white marquees, beer tents and deckchairs. Nowadays many counties don't venture beyond their Test match-standard stadia all season, and other, once peripatetic counties like Essex, who used to play at Southend, Colchester, Chelmsford, Clacton, Westcliff and Leyton during a single season, now only leave the County Ground once a season at most. Following the huge success of Britain's Lost Cricket Grounds, Chris Arnot goes in search of the boundary ropes from around the country - from Essex at Southend to Wellingborough School - to relive the time when the greats of the international game including Glenn McGrath and Ian Botham lit up summer's afternoons at the summer cricket festivals.

Britain's Lost Cricket Festivals Reviews

'Chris Arnot celebrates this rich but fraying tapestry of country cricket with reminiscences of matches and deeds played out on these grounds.'


'This is a handsome book in every sense, well-written and smartly presented, with dozens of fine photographs'


'This book is a real joy for anyone insterested in cricket, its history, leading players and characters.'


' If you' ve got an eye for history and a love of the county game, the stories and images in this book will give you a real pleasure.'

' Chris Arnot celebrates this rich but fraying tapestry of country cricket with reminiscences of matches and deeds played out on these grounds.'

'This book is a real joy for anyone insterested in cricket, its history, leading players and characters.'

' This is a handsome book in every sense, well-written and smartly presented, with dozens of fine photographs'

About Chris Arnot

Chris Arnot is a national freelance feature writer who has written on specialist subjects including arts and education, property, pubs, food and travel. A regular contributor to the Guardian, he has also written for the Daily Telegraph, the Independent and the Observer. He co-wrote The Archers Archives for BBC Books and his book, Britain's Lost Cricket Grounds, was long-listed for the MCC's cricket book of the year in 2011. He is also the author of Britain's Lost Breweries and Beers, published by Aurum.

Table of Contents

Festivals to include:

ESSEX

Clacton
Southend
Ilford

SUSSEX

Hastings
Eastbourne

KENT

Maidstone
Dover
Blackheath

SOMERSET

Weston-super-Mare
Bath
Yeovil

YORKSHIRE

Harrogate
Middlesbrough

MIDDLESEX

Southgate

HAMPSHIRE

Bournemouth
Portsmouth
Cowes
Basingstoke


SURREY

Kingston
Whitgift School, Croydon

LANCASHIRE

Lytham St Annes

WARWICKSHIRE

Stratford-upon-Avon

NOTINGHAMSHIRE

Worksop
Shireoaks

GLAMORGAN

Abergavenny
Neath

GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Gloucester
Erinoid, Stroud

LEICESTERSHIRE

Oakham School
Ashby-de-la-Zouch

DERBYSHIRE

Buxton
Ilkeston
Burton-on-Trent

NORTHANTS

Wellingborough School

Additional information

GOR006712804
9781781311202
178131120X
Britain's Lost Cricket Festivals: The Idyllic Club Grounds that Will Never Again Host the World's Best Players by Chris Arnot
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Aurum Press
20140515
192
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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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