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Article: When women cricketers were 'too anxious to run'!
- Article from:
- Dewsbury Reporter (Dewsbury, England)
- Article date:
- August 10, 2006
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Doctor PETER DAVIES, senior lecturer in history at Huddersfield University, has been given a Heritage Lottery Fund grant to research cricket history in Kirklees. Here he tells us something about the history of Thornhill Cricket Club. Here is the first in a series of features profiling clubs in Dewsbury and Mirfield
THORNHILL'S first ground was situated where Valley Road Estate now stands. The club played here between around 1861 and 1887.
In the beginning Thornhill Cricket Club was connected to Thornhill Parish Church.
Indeed, in the 1880s the church magazine made regular mention of the cricket club, and on one occasion actually referred to it ...