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Article: Focus on - Greetland - Future looks bright for club with glorious past.
- Article from:
- Evening Courier (Halifax, England)
- Article date:
- July 8, 2006
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The 11th in a Saturday series on Calderdale cricket clubs by Dr Peter Davies of the Cricket Heritage Project at Huddersfield University
Local cricket historian Andrew Hardcastle has uncovered matches featuring a number of Greetland teams during the mid-nineteenth century, with the earliest coming in 1858.
By 1864 a team called Greetland Royal Albert was playing matches, and in that year they met West Vale United.
By the time the Halifax Parish Cup committee carried out a report on the grounds of member clubs in 1891, Greetland's move to West Vale had taken place.
The report explained: 'When completed, this field gives promise of being ...