Bowerchalke CC Fixture Card 1973

Sadly, this is the final fixture card of the old Bowerchalke CC, well at least that's what we thought! Update on 8th September: the final season may well have been in 1974 not 1973. Our Mum and Dad have spoken to Gordon Lampert who recalls winning the single wicket competition in...1974! And has the tankard to prove it! So that means that there is another fixture card out there somewhere too.

Compared to 1963 and 1965 there has been quite a bit of 'movement' in the opponents listed but one or two familiar names are still there (e.g. Great Durnford, Breamore and Wiltshire Queries) and a few 'new' ones too. It was good to note that Broadchalke CC was listed again (absent in 1965).

Additions include: St. Giles CC, Porton, Bishopdown, Fovant and Amesbury. Trinity College Cambridge is still listed and a Single Wicket Competion has been added on August 11th.

From our perspective it would be really great to hear from anyone at these cricket clubs who might still have scorebooks containing details of these matches. We'd love to hear from you, feel free to drop us an e-mail at: bowerccmem@btinternet.com

KeithG and StuartG

Bowerchalke CC Fixture Card 1963

This is the earliest fixture card we have uncovered so far. As you can see there are some familiar village cricket club names on the list. For example, Hale, South Newton, Great Durnford, Broadchalke, Breamore, Fordingbridge and Little Durnford.

From our perspective it would be really great to hear from anyone at these village cricket clubs who might still have scorebooks containing details of these matches. We'd love to hear from you, feel free to drop us an e-mail at: bowerccmem@btinternet.com

There are also some other great sounding cricket clubs in the fxture list too: Poole Municipal Sports, Poole Old Grammarians, Trinity College Cambridge "Tom Tits", Agrarians, Wiltshire Queries, Whiteheads Sports, Woodstock Agricultural Research Centre and Old Parkstonians.

We'll need to take a closer look at the folded over piece of paper on the edge of the fixture card as that also looks like it has some matches listed on it!

KeithG and StuartG

Wow...

...what a fantastic Easter weekend it's been for this project! Just in time for the start of the new English cricket season! There is something poignant about that.

Like excited, small, rosy-cheeked, children on an Easter Egg Hunt we have a virtual basket-full of new information and material about Bowerchalke CC to share!

Just like those 'old fashioned' Easter Eggs we used to get in the 1970s (you know the ones with a small bag of sweets or chocolates inside the chocolate egg and without the indestructable plastic wrapping) we have had one or two fantastic surprises as well! What's more we are keeping our fingers crossed for some more to come, hopefully sometime next week...so keep watching this blog!

So, what have we received that's got us all excited?

• Some new photographs of Bowerchalke CC teams (and their opponents) going back as far as the 1920s!
• Some fixture cards from the 1960s and 1970s!
• The details of three matches Bowerchalke CC played against Coombe Bissett CC in 1938.
• And just as important in our view a few more stories and snippets of information about the individuals involved, those who actually played for and against Bowerchalke CC. It's amazing what memories are 'triggered' when you start to delve and what gets passed down from generation to generation through word-of-mouth.

We'll start posting the material here on this blog over the next day or so.

We hope you enjoy what we've discovered so far and hope there's more to come for us to share with you. Let us know if you have anything else to add to our virtual basket of Easter Eggs...we always were chocaholics at heart (or should that be cricket-a-holics).
KeithG and StuartG