History of Farndon CC - Update

Just a quick blog to update y'all (five of you) interested in my work in researching and writing the history of my local village cricket club, Farndon. For foreign/Brits not familiar with my circumstances - I am referring to Farndon in Nottinghamshire, near the better known Newark-On-Trent, rather than the poor excuse of a Farndon in Cheshire.

Yesterday, rather than drinking like normal, ironic, given it was the eve of my 18th birthday, I went down to the club to secure a vital part of the jigsaw, and something which I can chisel (metaphorically) away at during the winter. I now have all of the score books, dating from 1954 to the present day. Now, to the average reader this may seem insignificant, but given a) the task of looking through the archiving machine at the rather lonely Newark Library and b) the lack of information available in the 50s, 60s and 70s without the score books - now I have them I will probably save countless hours of potentially fruitless research.

The next step will be to arrange and record interviews with players of the 50s, 60s and 70s - again, they provide a valuable anecdotal reference and particularly with sorting out the gaps I have in the leagues Farndon played in - they seem pretty incomprehensible up until the mid 70s.

9-8 - R.Helliwell.

Having had a quick flick through, I have to say I found a few things of interest - 25/07/74 - Mark Fell bats at 11 in his 1st XI debut. Also, as the picture below shows - R.Helliwell in 1975, taking 9 for 8, the best ever bowling in Farndon's history. Fairly remarkable. On the side, there were also some photo-albums, some very useful in showing team photos etc - others just including some lovely images of player's wangers (God knows).

Yesterday, Farndon won promotion to Division D - on my birthday - that in itself will merit an extra chapter - hopefully the club has much greater things to come, as the youth section flourishes and the first team achieve more. I predict we will have another county player within the next decade and a half.