Metadata
WORK ID: YFA 2646 (Master Record)
| Title | Year | Date |
| THE NORTHERN CRICKET SOCIETY 1948 | 1948 | 1948-01-01 |
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Details
Original Format: 16mm Colour: Black & White Sound: Silent Duration: 3 mins 45 secs Subject: Sport |
| Summary This film shows the Northern Cricket Club playing a match, presumably against a Hovingham XI, at the cricket ground in front of Hovingham Hall. The Northern Cricket Club team would undoubtedly feature some famous players of the day. |
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Description
This film shows the Northern Cricket Club playing a match, presumably against a Hovingham XI, at the cricket ground in front of Hovingham Hall. The Northern Cricket Club team would undoubtedly feature some famous players of the day.
The film opens with team members and a few of their wives who are getting onto on to a bus in a city centre. Next they are at the cricket grounds at Hovingham. The team members, now dressed in their white uniforms, make their way onto the field. The pavilion and...
This film shows the Northern Cricket Club playing a match, presumably against a Hovingham XI, at the cricket ground in front of Hovingham Hall. The Northern Cricket Club team would undoubtedly feature some famous players of the day.
The film opens with team members and a few of their wives who are getting onto on to a bus in a city centre. Next they are at the cricket grounds at Hovingham. The team members, now dressed in their white uniforms, make their way onto the field. The pavilion and estate can be seen in the background. There are many shots of the action which takes place during the game especially focusing on the bowler and the different players who are up to bat. There is also footage taken from farther back which shows all the different players on the field. The first team then comes in. There is a brief shot of two dogs playing before the next inning begins.
Context
1948 is the first season for the Northern Cricket Society, and here they put on a fine display of batting and bowling against a Hovingham XI at their ground in front of Hovingham Hall, home of Sir William Worsley, past captain of Yorkshire County Cricket Club.
The Northern Cricket Society was formed in January 1948, the first of its kind after the Cricket Society, founded in November 1945 at Great Scotland Yard, London. The match was probably arranged by Sir William Worsley, the owner of...
1948 is the first season for the Northern Cricket Society, and here they put on a fine display of batting and bowling against a Hovingham XI at their ground in front of Hovingham Hall, home of Sir William Worsley, past captain of Yorkshire County Cricket Club.
The Northern Cricket Society was formed in January 1948, the first of its kind after the Cricket Society, founded in November 1945 at Great Scotland Yard, London. The match was probably arranged by Sir William Worsley, the owner of the Hovingham Estate, who also captained Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 1928-29, later becoming President of Yorkshire from 1960 until his death in 1973. In fact he may well have filmed this as well, as he was a keen amateur filmmaker, who filmed other cricket matches at Hovingham in the 1930s. The Northern Cricket Society has held a charity cricket match on Boxing Day without fail since 1949 – there is film of the 1952 match in the snow at Branhope, with a young Brian Close. |
