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MOORLANDS CC

Memorial Park, Mirfield WF14 9HP

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Central Yorkshire League

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John Sheard

 
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Founded: 1884 as Dewsbury Moorlands Methodist CC
Nearest Landmark: Mirfield Fire Station
Nearest Railway Station: Mirfield
By Bus: 203/253/278/X61/X62 from Dewsbury Bus Station
Nearest Other Club: Mirfield
Nearest Pub: Black Bull
Former Ground: Sands Lane

Club

Timeline (44kb PDF)

Early Years (651kb PDF)
Later Years (8.5mb PDF)

Official Club History (12kb PDF)

Concise History of Club (10kb PDF)


1884 (24 May) 1st Match v Dewsbury Friends (106kb PDF)

1933 Junior Cup Winners (28kb PDF)

1933 2nd XI Cup Victory (135kb PDF)
1935 Dewsbury League Final v Brownhill (399kb PDF)

1935 Junior Cup Winners (80kb PDF)

1939 League Winners (51kb PDF)

1952 Poem (567kb PDF)

1956 Scorebook v King Cross (124kb PDF)

1957 Section 'B' Winners (63kb PDF)

1970 Scorebook v Ruddlesdens (134kb PDF)

1976 Scorebook v Upper Hopton (152kb PDF)

1983 2nd XI Champions (54kb PDF)

1984 Centenary Diary (311kb PDF)

1985 (2 Sep) Paul Jones Cheque (83kb PDF)

1986 Handbook Entry, Sands Lane & Committee Minutes (1 Oct) (218kb PDF)

1987 Royson Cup Finalists & Huddersfield Town Cheque (1.5mb PDF)

1987 Royson Cup Finalists - Team Photo (65kb PDF)

1987 Balance Sheet (170kb PDF)

1988 Under-15s & Section 'D' Winners (98kb PDF)

1988 Club Women & Team Photo (108kb PDF)

1988 Scorebook v Gawthorpe (157kb PDF)

1989 WYMAS Cheque (66kb PDF)

1989 Scorebook - Under-15s v Liversedge (138kb PDF)

1990 Huddersfield Town Cheque (1.7mb PDF)

1991 Stepping Stones Appeal, Club Photo & Trophies (1.9mb PDF)

1992 Committee Minutes (2 Apr) & Huddersfield Town Cheque (112kb PDF)

1993 Under-17s Team Photo (59kb PDF)

1993 MacMillan Nurses Trust Fund (1.6mb PDF)

1993 Allsop Cup Final Badge (65kb PDF)

1994 Under-13s - Team Photo (46kb PDF)

1994 Lord's Taverners Kit Bag (70kb PDF)

1995 Under-13s - Team Photos (104kb PDF)

1995 Scorebook v Shelley (137kb PDF)

1996 Allsop Cup Winners (83kb PDF)

1996 Allsop Cup Winners & Under-15s - Team Photos (124kb PDF)

1996-7 Allsop Cup Winners, Armitage Cup Winners, Juniors & Tug-of-War (360kb PDF)

1997 (Jun) Lee Fortis (884kb PDF)

1998 Reporter Trophy Winners (71kb PDF)

1998 Mirfield Sports Council Awards (105kb PDF)

1999 2nd XI Division 2 Winners, Brackenbury Cup Winners & Under-12s (241kb PDF)

1990s Women (65kb PDF)

2004 Century-Makers (299kb PDF)

2005 Heritage Exhibition Launch Poster (67kb PDF)

2005 Heritage Exhibition Launch Tickets (65kb PDF)

2005 Heritage Exhibition Launch Event (334kb PDF)

2006 (13 Mar) Vandalism & Kirklees Council (596kb PDF)

2006 Project Letter (130kb PDF)

2007 'Moorlands Move Second' (460kb PDF)

2008 Golf Day (54kb PDF)

2008 Presentation (61kb PDF)

2008 Snack Bar (51kb PDF)

2008 Finals (28kb PDF)

2008-9 Fees (59kb PDF)

2009 Teamsheets (48kb PDF)

2009 Football Letter (58kb PDF)

Award Winners - undated (67kb PDF)

Club Badge (27kb PDF)

Club Ceremonies - undated (1.4mb PDF)

Club Honours (103kb PDF)

Club Photo - undated (66kb PDF)

Day Centre donation - undated (1.8mb PDF)

'End of an Era' - undated (265kb PDF)
Family Ties (16kb PDF)

Fundraising - undated (79kb PDF)

Opening Batsmen - undated (72kb PDF)

Paddling Pool - undated (82kb PDF)

Social Evening - undated (65kb PDF)

Trophy Winners - undated (45kb PDF)

LEAGUES: Central Yorkshire League (web link)

People

Who's Who (396kb PDF)

Mr Baldwin

Stuart Battye

David Blakeley

Dave Collins

Glen Coughlan

Ann Cousins

Elsie Cummings   'Umpire' Story (165kb PDF)

Gilbert Cummings   Photo (77kb PDF)

Steven Bruce Ellis

Marcel Engelbrecht

Ashley Fortis

Keith Fortis

Malcolm Fortis

Lee Fortis

Nadim Hussain

Neil Midgley

Greg Moore

Baber Naeem

Andrew Newby

Gordon Newsam   Photos (201kb PDF)

Ruby Newsam

Matt Page

Gary Ramsden

Brett Sachs

John Sheard   Oral History

Marian Sheard

David Sykes   Oral History

David Taylor

Derek Taylor

Andy Walker

Jack Walker

Michael Watson   1993 Allsop Cup (94kb PDF)

Pat Webber

Eileen Wood

Richard Wood

Team Photos

1930s (106kb PDF)

1950s (63kb PDF)

1980s (353kb PDF)

1990s (816kb PDF)

2000s (646kb PDF)

Undated (521kb PDF)

History of Ground

Story of Memorial Park (2.1mb PDF)

1998 New Clubhouse (1.5mb PDF)

2006 (Sep) Memorial Park (512kb PDF)

2007 (22 Apr) Moorlands v Houghton Main (949kb PDF)

2008 (23 Aug) Moorlands v Wakefield Thornes (1.5mb PDF)

2009 (11 Jul) Moorlands v Carlton (1.1mb PDF)

Clubhouse - Pre-Enlargement (54kb PDF)

Dressing Room - undated (44kb PDF)

Line Drawing by Sue Brant (PDF)

Ground Today

Action

Clock (48kb PDF)

Entrance (248kb PDF)

Flowers (135kb PDF)

General Views

On the Boundary (232kb PDF)

Pavilion (873kb PDF)

Players (341kb PDF)

Roller (157kb PDF)

Scorebox (227kb PDF)

Signage (233kb PDF)

Spectators (689kb PDF)

Views from the Main Road (248kb PDF)

Wicket & Square (128kb PDF)

Oral History

John Sheard & David Sykes

Elsie's Apple Pie (audio)
Huddersfield Town (audio)
Ian's Hobnailed Boots (audio)
Lottery Funding (audio)
Name Change (audio)
Nearly Folded (audio)
Rivalries (audio)

Local Context

Profile of Mirfield (56kb PDF)

Mirfield (Wikipedia)

GENUKI, 1820s (web link)

Mirfield Area Committee (web link)

Mirfield in Pictures (web link)

Mirfield Memories (web link)

Mirfield Past & Present (web link)

Mirfield Railway Station (web link)

Mirfield Show (web link)

Mirfield Tennis Club (web link)

Mirfield Town Council (web link)

1867-90 Other Cricket Teams in Mirfield (8kb PDF)

Former Cricket Clubs in Local Area (web link)

Further Reading

F.Stott, Looking Back at Mirfield (2000)

F.Stott, The Changing Face of Mirfield (2003)

Mirfield Reporter

The Press

Club Archives

West Yorkshire Archive Collection (Stored at Huddersfield Library)

 

With grateful thanks to John Sheard and David Sykes (MCC).

If you have any information about this club or any others in this area that could be of use please feel free to contact us via p.j.davies@hud.ac.uk.

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Greatest Moment

Helping to form the Dewsbury & District Cricket League in 1911.

Local Hero

Gilbert Cummings - hardworking club stalwart.

Bizarre Fact

Elsie Cummings once gave her husband, Gilbert, out...when she had been co-opted, at the last minute, as a matchday umpire!

Methodist Link

Moorlands were originally founded as a church cricket team in 1884.

Their full title was Dewsbury Moorlands Methodist Church Cricket Club and they were based at the church in West Town.

They played in the Sunday School League, and there was a strong link between church and cricket team.

Attendance Rubric

In fact there was a rubric which said that in order to play, members of the cricket club had to attend either the Moorlands Methodist Sunday School or church services.

Young men were issued with an 'attendance card', which had to be stamped each Sunday they attended.

In turn, this enabled the church authorities to determine whether individual players were eligible for cricketing duty.

This ritual eventually proved to be the undoing of the church-cricket club connection.

Home Soil

From the early 1950s up to 1987, Moorlands played their home matches at Sands Lane – a council-owned pitch.

They then moved to the Memorial Ground – where they play on an adjacent field to Mirfield CC.

Fundraising Success

During the 1980s and 1990s the club engaged in a variety of fundraising activities.

The club also formed a link with a local day centre, and helped with raising money; and in 1994 the club itself was delighted to receive a bag of cricket kit from the Lord’s Taverners.

Home Sweet Home

Moorlands’ ground is located in Memorial Park, on Huddersfield Road, next door to Mirfield Harry Lime’s HQ.

Home to two local cricket clubs, the Memorial Ground is a unique cricketing venue. Moorlands’ ‘half’ is pleasant and easy on the eye.

It is circled by a ring of dark and emerald green trees, so much so that the main road is hardly visible.

Apart from the pavilion and scoreboard, there are no other buildings visible, save the rear of the Mirfield CC pavilion and the kiddies’ play area diagonally across from the pavilion.

Near Neighbours

To be fair, Mirfield’s ground is well hidden by trees and buildings, but occasionally you do catch sight of a few small figures in white or you do hear the noise of ball on bat.

Two cricket matches for the price of one – heaven, surely, for the passing cricket-lover?

Mirfield Cricket Club’s pavilion backs on to Moorlands’ outfield. Local children have painted a football net on the brick building. To the left, more elegant trees; to the right, the Mirfield CC car park.

Building Blocks

Building work on Moorlands’ new pavilion started in 1996 and 1997 and the structure was ready for the 1998 season.

The glass frontage opens out onto the outfield, and the club has been able to display a number of advertising boards within the window panes.

Pavilion Project

Like many local cricket clubs, Moorlands are indebted to national funding bodies.

The total cost of the pavilion project was £120,000 and the club was aided by a Sport England Lottery Fund grant of £75,000.

In front of the pavilion is a garden of beautiful flowers.

Scorebox and Pool

The scorebox is sited adjacent to the pavilion, behind the bowler’s arm at the main-road end of the ground.

It houses the two scorers – one from the home side and one from the away side – and can be ‘shuttered’ up when it is not being used.

The back of the Mirfield CC pavilion forms the boundary in one part of the ground.

And a children’s paddling pool is

sited beyond the boundary diametrically opposite the pavilion.

Silverware Joy

1991 was a particularly successful year, thanks in part to a successful junior policy.

The Armitage Cup was won by the Under-17s, the Wakefield Cup and Divisional Championship were won by the newly formed Sunday XI and the Tinker Cup was won by the 2nd XI.

The Under-17s won the Armitage Cup again in 1993 and were losing

semi-finalists in 1996.

 

Busy Year

The 1st XI won the Allsop Cup in 1996 and the Evening League side won the Denby Grange Evening League in the same year.

1997/98 saw many changes for the club - it was accepted into the Central Yorkshire Cricket League, the new clubhouse was officially opened and it changed its name rom Dewsbury Moorlands Cricket Club to Moorlands Cricket Club, to reflect the fact that it was now firmly based in Mirfield.

In 1999 the 2nd XI won the 2nd XI championship and the Mirfield Sports Council Team award, while the Under-17s won the Brackenbury Cup.

The club gained promotion to Division 1 in 2001. In 2004 the 1st XI won the President's Trophy for 1st XI runners-up in the Yorkshire Council play-offs.

Disclaimer - Designed and programmed by Lee Booth.

 
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