~ ST. LAWRENCE CRICKET GROUND ~

CANTERBURY

 

St. Lawrence Cricket Ground c. 1902

 

Sutcliffe and Who. 1950's, Photo courtesy of Terry Smith

 

Kent Team. 1950's, Photo courtesy of Terry Smith

 

Cowdrey. 1950's, Photo courtesy of Terry Smith

 

Walcott, Asgarali. 1950's, Photo courtesy of Terry Smith

 

Walcott, Asgarali. 1950's, Photo courtesy of Terry Smith

 

Bert, Sutcliffe, Cave & Darcy. 1950's, Photo courtesy of Terry Smith

 

 

 

Leslie Aimes Stand 2010

 

1889

Kent County Cricket Club. Office in Watling Street. Patron, H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh; President, Right Hon. Earl Darnley; Hon. Treasurer, Col. Hartnell; Secretary, A. J. Lancaster, 21 Watling Street; Banker and Auditor, Geo. Furley, Esq., Canterbury Bank

No. 50 Old Dover Road - Hy. Bass, cricket ground keeper

No. 78 Old Dover Road - Frederick Martin, cricketer

 

Fuller Pilch Memorial, which used to stand in St. Gregory's Burial Ground (minus the obelisk)

MEMORIAL TO
FULLER PILCH
REMOVED FROM
ST GREGORY'S CHURCHYARD
CANTERBURY IN 1978
HE [PLAYED] FOR
KENT 1836 1854
AND WAS THE BEST
BATSMAN KNOWN TO
CRICKET BEFORE THE
[ADVENT] OF W G GRACE
FIRST GROUNDSMAN
OF THIS GROUND
[1847] 1868

Thanks to Tricia for the photo's and the transcriptions

FULLER PILCH

BORN AT HORNINGTOFT NORFOLK

MARCH 17TH 1803

DIED AT CANTERBURY

MAY 1ST 1870

AGED 67 YEARS

Thanks to Tricia for the photo's and the transcriptions

"This bronze likeness of Fuller Pilch was placed on this monument by the Kent County Cricket Club in 1922"

Large obelisk; bronze of a man playing cricket

VIRO SIMPLICI

Cross

CONSTANTI PROBO

Thanks to Tricia for the photo's and the transcriptions

THIS MONUMENT

IS ERECTED TO THE MEMORY
OF

FULLER PILCH

BY UPWARDS OF TWO HUNDRED FRIENDS

TO MARK THEIR ADMIRATION

OF HIS SKILL AS A CRICKETER

AND HIS WORTH AS A MAN

"No races are now held here, but the city has of late years become famous for its cricket matches, held on a large inclosed ground on the Old Dover Road, for one week dating from the first Monday in August, when some of the strongest county teams play against the Gentlemen of Kent."

Kent County Cricket Club - A. J. Lancaster, sec., 45 St. George's Place

From Kelly's 1903 directory of Kent

 

Colin Blythe Memorial

 

"On the right hand of the Dover Road, in the south-east suburb, not far from the nunnery of St. Sepulchre, stood the old Hospital of St. Laurence, of which there are now no remains save in the walls of cottages adjacent to the site. The name lingers on in the title of Canterbury's famed cricket ground."

Canterbury; A History of the Ancient City, J. Charles Cox 1905

 

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