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BRITAIN'S LOST CRICKET GROUNDS
THE HALLOWED HOMES OF CRICKET THAT WILL NEVER SEE ANOTHER BALL BOWLED |
| By: |
Chris Arnot |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£25.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1845135911 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781845135911 |
| Publisher: |
AURUM PRESS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
12 October, 2011 |
| Pages: |
192 |
| Description: |
From county grounds where Denis Compton hit a century to the smallest village field Britain's Lost Cricket Grounds movingly shows how picturesque greenery gave way to shopping malls and housing estates. |
| Synopsis: |
From county grounds where Denis Compton hit a century to the smallest village field Britain's Lost Cricket Grounds movingly shows how picturesque greenery gave way to shopping malls and housing estates. The cricket ground is as much a part of the British landscape as the parish church. Hastings used to have a historic ground in the middle of the town surrounded by elegant houses - but then recently it disappeared under a shopping precinct with a branch of River Island where the wicket used to be. Yorkshire used to play at Sheffield's Bramall Lane - until the football club built grandstands over it. Like so many companies with works grounds, Guinness have closed their cricket ground at Park Royal and sold it for an industrial estate. Now, in a further addition to Aurum's successful 'Lost' series, following Britain's Lost Cities and Lost Victorian Britain, Guardian journalist Chris Arnot tours the country in search of our most lamented lost cricket grounds, hearing reminiscences from former players and spectators, and finding what, if anything, is left nowadays, apart from the poignant photographs of their picturesque heyday that make this a nostalgic and rueful trip back in time. |
| Illustrations: |
200 black & white illustrations |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Aurum Press Ltd |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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