It was nostalgia all the way at the Reminiscence Afternoon yesterday as Richard Griffiths and Brian Sanderson from the Yorkshire Cricket Foundation put on a presentation based on the history of SCL.
The pair are using our Yearbooks and visitors books from our beginnings in 1960 to illustrate just how many cricketing figures and personalities have entertained members with their presence since then.
This week covered the period between 1976 to 1984; big screen photographs and images bring history to life but it is the interaction from members that add so much to the experience. The format allows members to interject wherever they feel they want to voice their own memories as each nugget is revealed.
Whether it was putting names to players on team pictures, scrutinising scorecards or recalling players and matches, the audience defied the passage of time to demonstrate that cricket memories don’t seem to fade with the years!
A personal favourite revelation for me was learning that at our Annual Dinner in 1978, one of the speakers, Ian Lavender – of ‘Dad’s Army’ fame – signed his address in the visitors book as ‘Walmington-on-Sea’. If you know, you know…
Incidentally, the night – a tribute to Brian Close – was hosted by Michael Parkinson, years later to become Sir Michael Parkinson CBE … and the Society’s President
Andy Pack