This is not the start of a new Brigg archeaological excavation but does show the remains of one of the cricket nets on the playing field at Sir John Nelthorpe School, close to the boundary with what are now the Health Place offices (formerly Glanford Hospital).
You can see where four cricket nets used to be - side by side- as the bases are still in situ.
In Brigg Grammar School days there used to be nets near the boarding house and along the boundary with the houses on Glebe Road.
Much practising was undertaken. Not that it did very much to improve match performances in some cases!
Much practising was undertaken. Not that it did very much to improve match performances in some cases!
I wonder how historians will view cricket in 10k years' time Nige.
ReplyDelete'Man throws leaded weight at another man with a club....but the intention is to knock over some upright twigs.
In the field, there are other men dressed in ceremonial white. Their job is to catch the leaded weight and throw it back to the man who threw it in the first place.
There are also other men in white coats secretly counting stones in their trouser pocket...and occasionally making symbolic gestures.' perhaps.
Maybe easier to explain quidditch, Nige.
In addition....'there are two clubman, each standing near upright twigs. When one man hits the flying weight, they swap a chain, then stand at their colleague's twig structure.
ReplyDeleteThe activity included a score terms, such as 'Runs', 'All out' and 'Fly-slip'....their etymology is unclear, but there is some, but unproven suggestion that these were colloquial, circa C21st, terms relating to incontinence and such like.
The ceremony was cheered on by tribes of local inhabitants often in a clearing especially maintained for such a summertime performance.'
In addition....'there are two clubman, each standing near upright twigs. When one man hits the flying weight, they swap a chain, then stand at their colleague's twig structure.
ReplyDeleteThe activity included a score terms, such as 'Runs', 'All out' and 'Fly-slip'....their etymology is unclear, but there is some, but unproven suggestion that these were colloquial, circa C21st, terms relating to incontinence and such like.
The ceremony was cheered on by tribes of local inhabitants often in a clearing especially maintained for such a summertime performance.'