Bowerchalke CC Accounts 1949-1950 Season

INTRODUCTION
In amongst the various papers we have received on Bowerchalke CC from David Gulliver (our Uncle), we've come across some very interesting items, including the subject of this blog article: the accounts for the cricket club from 1949-50. They provide a fascinating insight into a number of things.

For example:

• Bowerchalke CC used to hire coaches from Adams Brothers (which we believe is now known as Victory Tours) to get to away games. It sounds like it was quite a day out not just for the players but other people from the village! A real outing! We spoke to our Mum about this and she can recall going to away games (e.g. out to the New Forest or down to Poole Park). We wonder if anyone has any photographs of these village outings? They must have been quite an occasion!
• Bowerchalke CC used to have a dinner and a raffle draw. We spoke to our Dad about this and he recalls these being held in the old Bowerchalke Village Hall (no longer there although KeithG can vaguely recall it, a green wooden structure perhaps?). There was some recollection of an after dinner speaker, a Mr. Douglas Horner, who also used to do impressions apparantly. Does anyone remember these dinners? Or have any photographs?
• Cricket bats were referred to as 'willows', how beautiful is that?
• The mower needed a couple of repairs! And Mr Stevens and Mr Gillan used to cut the pitch, for which they were paid.
• Umpires and scorers teas were properly accounted for.
• Looks like our Grandad (Harold Gulliver) received 3 pounds compensation from the insurance company Norwich Union, wonder why? Does anyone recall the story behind that?

THE DOCUMENT
The two pictures below are extracts from a scanned image of the original document which was hand-written and suffering a bit from the ravages of time (and a bit of damp too, hence the brown stain marks).

PICTURE A
This is an extract from the income page of the accounts. It says:

• Brought forward 30 (pounds) 10 (shillings) and 6 (pence)
• Proceeds of dinner 26 8 9
• Bus receipts for away games at Hale (2 0 6), Breamore ( 2 1 3), South Newton (1 10 0), Poole (2 12 0), Bemerton (19 6), Winterslow and Little Durnford (4 12 3), making a grand total of 14 pounds, 5 shillings and 6 pence (written in pencil).
• Draw sale of tickets (15 18 0)
• Returned prizes (1 0 0)
• Balance in hand 1949-50 (26 13 1)
• Making a total of 114 pounds 5 shillings and 10 pence (quite a lot!)

PICTURE B
This is an extract from the expenditure page of the 1950 accounts. Some of the words aren't 100% clear unfortunately but we think it reads as follows:

• March 16th - Willows (?) 6 (pounds) 3 (shillings) 10 (pence)
• May 2nd - J.T. Lowe Ltd. piston rings (in hand) 9 6
• May 2nd - D.M. Porter (?) repairs to mower 2 7 6
• May 3rd - Salisbury Journal fixture cards 1 10 6
• May 4th - Norwich Union Ins(urance) Co (?) SRC? team and 3rd party risks 1 19 0
• May 4th - cutting pitch P Stevens 2 18 0
• May 4th - cutting pitch J Gillan 2 14 0
• May 4th - Scorers and umpires teas 1 8 0
• May 4th - H Gulliver compensation from insurance company 3 0 0
• June 8th - D M Porter (?) repairs to mower 1 5 9
• June 22nd - T Jay and Sons draw tickets 2 5 6
• July 7th - Wiltons Scorebook and repairs 1 9 6
• September 13th - Wiltons rubber and roll of tape 2 4 9
• September 13th - rents for ground 10 0 0
• September 13th - A Butler and J Beckly polish for pitch - - -
• September 13th - Adams Bros. hire of coaches 24 15 0
• Balance in hand as of February 1951 50 15 0
• Making a total of 114 pounds 5 shillings and 10 pence

Keith and Stuart Gulliver

Bowerchalke CC Final Season 1973 or 1974?

The following blog entry has been updated: http://bowerccmem.blogspot.com/2009/04/bowerchalke-cc-fixture-card-1973.html

KeithG

Winners Medal For Knapman Cup Victory 1969

In this blog entry http://bowerccmem.blogspot.com/2009/09/bowerchalke-cc-season-1969-knapman-cup.html we covered Bowerchalke's victory in the Knapman Cup during the 1969 season. Here are a couple of pictures of a winners medal (our Dad's):



Forty years on, wouldn't it be great if the 1969 team could all get together again?
KeithG

Bowerchalke CC Fixture Card 1954

Images Of The Bowerchalke CC Fixture Card 1954


Comments
It's amazing what people have tucked away! Again a member of our family has come up trumps with the 1954 Fixture Card...this was found in the same storage box as the 1968-69 scorebook. Thanks Mum! The good thing is that this card has been annotated, so we can take a closer look at the results for the 1954 season that have been recorded. We assume this was our Dad's fixture card, he would have been in his mid-late teens then. But it could have belonged to another member of the family.


The front cover shows that George Tate was the captain in the 1954 season and John Beckly was vice-captain. There are some familiar names listed as Vice-Presidents.


Now we've got a reasonably good collection of fixture cards it would be a good idea to start to pull together a list of club officers over the years. Something to work on...and more gaps identified to fill no doubt!


It's amazing how good a source of information the fixture card is for a whole host of things; the fact that people took it upon themselves to record some details about the matches as well says a lot.

BOWERCHALKE CC RESULTS 1954

• May 1st versus Hale (away) won (Bowerchalke 133-6, Hale 87 all out. The owner of the fixture card scored 16 not out).
• May 8th versus Breamore (away) lost (Breamore 67-8, Bowerchalke 47 all out)
• May 15th versus South Newton (home) match drawn (South Newton 170-6, Bowerchalke 70-9)
• May 22nd versus CDEE Porton (home) no result recorded
• May 29th versus Little Durnford (home) won (Little Durnford 23 all out, no Bowerchalke details recorded)
• June 5th versus Winterbourne (home) match drawn
• June 7th versus Poole Old Grammarians (home) match drawn
• June 12th versus CDEE Porton (away) match abandoned
• June 19th versus Trinity College Cambridge (home) lost (Bowerchalke 163 all out, Trinity College Cambridge 164-6)
• June 26th versus Breamore (home) won
• July 3rd versus South Wilts (home) won
• July 10th versus Winterbourne (away) won
• July 17th no match, Bowerchalke Flower Show
• July 24th versus Hale (home) lost
• July 31st versus Fordingbridge (away) lost
• August 2nd versus Tarrant Gunville (home) won (Tarrant Gunville 64 all out, no Bowerchalke details recorded)
• August 7th versus Wiltshire Queries no match details recorded
• August 14th no match listed
• August 21st versus Little Durnford (away) no match details recorded
• August 28th versus Agrarians (away) no match details recorded
• September 4th no match listed

SEASON SUMMARY

There were 18 matches listed in the fixture card including the one added on August 2nd. Bowerchalke won 6, lost 4 and 3 matches were drawn. In addition 1 match was listed as abandoned and 4 have no match details recorded.

It's good to see that the Trinity College Cambridge game was played in 1954, this was clearly a long-standing fixture. This is the earliest listing we have come across (so far) for this fixture.

Note also there was no game on the 17th July because of the Flower Show (Dad believes the cricket field was used for the show). If you know anymore about the fixtures with missing details or anymore about the Flower Show let us know, send an e-mail to bowerccmem@btinternet.com we'd love to hear from you.

KeithG

Bowerchalke CC Picture 1923: Update

EMAIL RECEIVED
We've had an e-mail from Roger Case about this blog entry which showed the Bowerchalke team in 1923: http://bowerccmem.blogspot.com/2009/04/bowerchalke-cc-1923.html

Roger says: '...I too have a copy of the photograph of the team in 1923...I was told the chap in the back row was Morland Hardiman, not sure if this is right! Also Mr Hitchings I think was Reg Hitchings....'

Many thanks for this information Roger!

NEW PICTURE FROM 1930s
Roger also sent us this fantastic picture of his Grandfather WAJ Case (Bill) in his cricket whites and his son Norman taken around 1930 at the Bowerchalke CC field. Roger doesn't know the name of the rabbit!!




KeithG

Bowerchalke CC Season 1969: The Knapman Cup

INTRODUCTION
In a previous blog entry we made reference to The Knapman Cup. This was a local cricket knockout competition in the Salisbury and District Area, twenty overs per side, played in midweek evenings. We believe it was organised by Farley CC as that is where The Semi-Finals and The Final were played (nice place to play). We'll need to find out a bit more about the history, we assume that it is still played for today but will try and confirm that somehow. Interestingly, both our Dad (for Bowerchalke and Bishopstone) and KeithG (for South Wilts) have actually played in winning teams! And that leads us nicely on to the 1969 season...

BUT WHAT HAPPENED IN 1968?
As already referenced in this blog, Bowerchalke was knocked out of The Knapman Cup in 1968 by South Wilts. We assume this was in the first round of the competition. The first attempt to play the game on the 14th June 1968 was abandoned because of rain after 9 overs with South Wilts 74-1. On the 24th June 1968 South Wilts made 121 for 6 and beat Bowerchalke (90-5) by 31 runs.

KNAPMAN CUP 1969
Interestingly in the 1968-69 scorebook the scorer highlighted the 1969 first round match as The Knapman Cup along the top of the page, presumably to draw a distinction between this game and the normal fixtures. However, s/he mistakenly started to write in Morrison Cup...and then scribbled it out. We know that our Dad also has a Morrison Cup winners trophy at home...so was The Knapman Cup its successor? All references we can find to The Morrison Cup on the Internet seem to relate to football not cricket. If you know anymore about this let us know, send an e-mail to bowerccmem@btinternet.com

First Round: Bowerchalke Versus Great Durnford played at Bowerchalke on 4th June 1969
Weather: sunny
Toss Won By: Great Durnford
Bowerchalke 112 for 9, C Down 31, D Gulliver 27, G Prince 10-0-53-7-7.57
Great Durnford 94 for 7, R Phillips 28 not out, B Stevens 10-1-49-5-9.8
Bowerchalke won by 18 runs
Bowerchalke team: C Down, T Barter, B Stevens, G Lampert, D Gulliver, A Syrett, R Clough, B Gulliver, D Petch, J Lord, M Lampert

Second Round: Bowerchalke Versus Farley played at Bowerchalke on DATE NOT SPECIFIED IN SCOREBOOK (between 28th June and 5th July 1968 the games before and after in the book)
Weather: sunny
Toss Won By: Bowerchalke
Bowerchalke 124-6, C Down 54 not out, D Gulliver 31, A Syrett 19 not out, C Fletcher 9-0-53-3-17.6
Farley 69-8, S Edwards 27, D Gulliver 10-0-33-4-8.25, B Stevens 9-1-24-3-8, C Down 1-0-9-1-9
Bowerchalke won by 55 runs
Bowerchalke team: P Salisbury, C Down, T Barter, G Lampert, B Stevens, D Gulliver, R Clough, A Syrett, B Gulliver, D Petch, M Lampert

Semi-Final: Bowerchalke Versus Whiteparish played at Farley on 14th July 1969
Weather: sunny / hazy
Toss Won By: NOT SPECIFIED
Whiteparish 106-6, J Rushton 19, C Cobern 22, P Cobern 22, B Ling 22 (there were four Coberns in the Whiteparish team!), D Gulliver 7-0-36-2-18, B Stevens 9-0-45-2-22.5, C Down 4-0-16-1-16
Bowerchalke 108-2 off 17 overs, P Salisbury 47 not out, C Down 20, G Lampert 38 not out, W Alford 6-0-29-1-29
Bowerchalke won by 8 wickets
Bowerchalke team: P Salisbury, C Down, T Barter, G Lampert, B Stevens, D Gulliver, A Syrett, R Clough, D Petch, J Lord, M Lampert
Bowerchalke

Final: Bowerchalke Versus South Wilts II played at Farley on 18th July 1969
Weather: fine
Toss Won By: South Wilts II
South Wilts II 95-9, M Heather 22, D Gulliver 10-0-32-7-4.57, B Stevens 10-0-51-2-25.5
Bowerchalke 99-1, P Salisbury 46 not out, C Down 23, T Barter 24 not out
Bowerchalke won by 9 wickets and win The Knapman Cup! Sweet revenge for defeat against South Wilts a year earlier.
Bowerchalke team: P Salisbury, C Down, T Barter, G Lampert, B Stevens, D Gulliver, A Syrett, R Clough, B Gulliver, D Petch, J Lord