Cricket In Calderdale & Kirklees

q       Have you got memories of cricket in the local area?
q       Do you possess any old cricket club minute books or scorebooks?
q       Have you got any old cricket photos or newspaper cuttings?
q       Do you have any old bats and balls, pads or stumps, in your attic?
q       Have you kept any old cricket trophies or medals?

Dr Peter Davies, Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Huddersfield, has been awarded a grant of £43,400 from the Heritage Lottery Fund to reconstruct the heritage and social history of local cricket in Calderdale and Kirklees. Since 2004 the Project has had the following public outcomes:

•       Over 100 exhibitions about local cricket
•       Electronic cricket archive at www.ckcricketheritage.org.uk
•       Archives set up at Halifax and Huddersfield town libraries
•       Oral history interviews conducted and now broadcast on website
•       Cricket heritage walks devised and now downloadable
•       Activity packs for schools created and being distributed
•       Three annual Pennine Cricket History conferences held
•       ‘Bat & Ball’ evening course staged & various books, booklets and articles published

If you can help, please do get in touch!
 
You can donate materials to the archive, or deposit them temporarily. We could also come and loan items, or photocopy them, or even photograph them. We would also like to interview you if you’ve got a cricketing story to tell…

CONTACT Dr Peter Davies: 01484 472405 or via p.j.davies@hud.ac.uk or c/o Department of History, University of Huddersfield, Queensgate, Huddersfield HD1 3DH