Uppingham Town Cricket Club
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Uppingham Town Cricket Club
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Club History Pre 1939 by T.P Scott Club President as he can recall;
For many years the club played on the Leicester Road Victoria field, the western end of the town known as the Uppingham School Rugby field up until about 1930. In the early 1930,s a side was formed called the Uppingham Nondescripts and they played at Glaston on a field on the right as you entered the village. At around 1935 a club was established in Uppingham and played for one to two years off the Leicester Road in a field now known as Shepherds Way. T.P Scott first played cricket there about two years later the club moved area to the opposite side of the road, up until 1939 when ALL cricket ceased. The Uppingham Town Hockey Club also played on this field. Post War; At around 1948 Canon ??Aldred who was Rector here at Uppingham was very keen to see the cricket club reformed. He approached the Headmaster of Uppingham School and obtained permission for the club to play on the western end of the middle, the ground, which the club still, plays. The Rector summoned a meeting in the Church Hall (now the Town Hall) with the object of reforming the club. Unfortunately only six people attended, Rev Edwards, Harry Bradshaw, Louis Smith, George Stubbs, T.P Scott and an other. It was obvious it was impossible to form a club on that strength. We were each asked to canvass possible players and then to convene a further meeting. This was done and the next meeting mustered about twenty people, the Uppingham Town CC was formed. The first season was a great struggle to raise both eleven players and also to raise funds. One of the first purchases was the small hut from the Ayston Hall tennis court, which six members hoisted over the stonewall. This only housed the two scorers. T.P Scott remembers the club bought a 12” mower form AE Bilsdons for around £14, on the condition we payed for it at the end of the season. Now nearly sixty years on the club has gone from strength to strength, long may it continue to do so.
Signed T.P Scott. -----------------------------------------------
If anyone has any old match reports, photographs, newspaper cuttings etc about the club, we would be grateful if you could pass them on to us (or copies) so that we could put them up on the website.
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