Annals Of The Free Foresters

The Annals of the Free Foresters is a comprehensive history of one of England's most famous amateur cricket clubs. From its founding in the mid-nineteenth century to its continued success today, this book offers readers a detailed and engaging account of the club's triumphs and challenges. With contributions from two of the club's most distinguished members, William Edmund Wood Collins and William Kirkpatrick Riland Bedford, this book is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the history of English cricket. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Excerpt from Annals of the Free Foresters: From 1856 to the Present Day When the idea of a record of the doings of the old Club with which he had been originally so intimately connected was first suggested to the editor of the present volume, he was under the impression that the materials available were more complete than upon minute investigation proved to be the case. For ten or twelve years after its formation the first Secretary had kept a record of its matches, but this miscellaneous chronicle then came to an end; and although in most years a list of fixtures was published at the commencement of each season, it proved impossible to trace the whole of the matches thus advertised, some of which were never played, while others, not on the advertised list, were substituted for them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Annals of the Free Foresters: From 1856 to the Present Day That the joint labours of the two annalists, combined with the illustrative chapters and passages obtained from other sources, will give at least a readable and intelligible summary of a series of campaigns on the mimic battle field, creditable to an association, united in aim though untied by rule, whose boast it is that if their early success sent them up like a rocket, they have not yet come down like the stick. To many Free Foresters who have assisted with reminiscences, and to the members and friends of the Club, who have encouraged the book by their subscriptions, the editor says one word. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A late Victorian wag once claimed that all men were ‘cads, aesthetes or trade’. In his time Bunny Lucas (1857-1923) was said to be all three, but David Pracy here uses a wide range of primary and secondary sources to make the case for us to think of Lucas as an aesthete. Yet his was a life full of intriguing paradoxes. A devout churchman, he was the unlikely co-respondent in an Edwardian divorce case. Conservative in character, he entered the risky profession of stock jobber and probably lost thousands of pounds in an ill-advised investment. Famous as one of the most stylish defensive batsmen of his age, he bowled a ball that inspired a short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In a remarkable first-class career spanning 34 seasons, he was for some seven years an automatic choice for England and the Gentlemen but dropped out of top-level cricket to play for his school Old Boys’ side and for the then minor county of Essex, only to help them achieve first-class status and enjoy his own cricketing Indian summer. Born into a wealthy upper-middle-class family in a fashionable part of London’s West End, he became a great favourite with the often raucous East London crowds that supported Essex at Leyton. As Robin Hobbs suggests in his foreword, if Bunny Lucas had received the media attention given nowadays to players, he would have been a sporting super star.

A celebration of the humble cricket pavilion, an architectural icon of British life. In this lavishly illustrated book, Lynn Pearson explores the history of these often overlooked gems of architectural and social history.