Welcome to Waldron Cricket Club & Club History
• The club was founded in 1757.However the first match recorded was in 1746
• The Centenary game, scheduled for 24th May 1857, never took place because of heavy snow. A notice board (later found in Warren Lane) was put up on the ground to notify the travelling party (horeses and carts) that the game was off.
• The Cricket Club initially played its home fixtures from the point of origin on Church land now a grazing field in the property named the Old Glebe. At the turn of the 19th/ 20th centenary the President was the local vicar of All Saints Church (origin 1195) and this may well have been the tradition for much of the history of the club. This site lies to the north side of the road opposite the existing ground. The Ground was named by the locals as the Cattam, which may have been after a Breton word for a Ladies game that materialized into stoolball.
• The Lucas Family offered the Cricket Club the use of the existing site (now again called the Cattam, in 1921, probably because it was flatter and better drained. Although flatter it also included a bank in the playing area to the north of the square which also carried a name with a Breton origin. This was “the batter” which came from the Breton word, similar to abattre, “a wall that diminishes upwards!”
• In 1923 the Local men of the Village on coming home from the First World War built the pavilion over a long weekend. There is a plaque on the building which reads:-The Pavilion was erected and given to Waldron C.C. by R.E. Hassell esq. June 1923. In the memory of his late Brother Lt. Col. Robert de Bray Hassell O.M.C. When the floorboards collapsed in the late 1990s the discarded beer bottles were found in the rubble underneath from that original working party.
• The new pavilion was opened in 2007 - the 250th anniversary of the Club.
• The Club has a recent history of managing to play its cricket matches uninterrupted by weather largely due to the outstanding drainage of the ground on sandstone and on a windswept slope. Combining that with the discovery of the origins of the cricket club being identified first of all by the centenary match being snowed off, the club motto has become “Nives Ludum Impedire Solum Possunt” which when translated from the Latin means “Only snow can stop play!”
• If you are interested in joining Waldron CC as a Player, Junior or Non-playing Member, please contact Tim Page-Ratcliff on 01435 862031, or email tim@page-ratcliff.com
• Visitors and Non-Playing members are always welcome at the Club. A tea is served between innings (approx 4.30pm). All we ask for is a small donation. We look forward to seeing you.
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