Summer Sports - Cricket
With the high cost of copper, and due to the FA rules regarding hot showers, the football club had to move to a new ground instead of repairing and replacing the stolen items
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building maintenance and giving it a good paint job! We are working together to improve the other buildings and facilities at the club as the benefits will be there to be enjoyed by all.
been rediscovered and pesky moles have been unceremoniously dealt with
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After seven years of banging heads against walls and getting nowhere, the main playing members took up an offer from another local village to restart the cricket club in Shipton Oliffe
a midweek team for friendly fixtures, and only the larger, more established clubs are flourishing.
Shipton Cricket Club has always had the facilities, which have been used on and off over the last twenty years. There is a post second world war pavilion, a kitchen building, including the all-important machine shed, and a changing room which was built ‘sometime in the 1960s or 1970s’. The Shipton Sports Field, located between the Shipton Golf Course and infamous Frogmill Inn, was a plot of land owned by the local farmer, and he gave this to the Parish Council so it could be a recreational area for the village.
The Cotswold Classic Car Club started using the pavilion last year and, after the Parish Council organised for it to be rewired, the Car Club did a lot of the work required to get it up to a decent standard again, replacing lots of the rotten wooden shutters, doing various small bits of plumbing and
The square at Shipton Cricket Club has
There was a local football team which also used the field up until around 2010, when the changing room was broken into and the boiler and pipework stolen. With the high cost of copper, and due to the FA rules regarding hot showers, the football club had to move to a new ground instead of repairing and replacing the stolen items. This, in turn, led to the field falling into a state of disrepair. The grass was not cut for over a year, and resembled a meadow. Mr Mike Evans, of the adjacent Shipton Golf Course, then took over the mowing duties, slowly working the land back so it was at least suitable for recreational use. With his help, experience and advice we are now slowly working the ground back to a suitable state for cricket.
The outfield was covered in molehills, where around six different mole colonies existed, although a four day trapping period was all that was required for local mole catcher, Charlie Golding Barrett. He caught nine moles in total and is fairly confident that he has them all. Sure enough, one week on there was no visible fresh activity. A cracking job done by a very skilled man! A message was posted on the Pitchcare message board, entitled “Where to Start?!”, and all of the responses from other board members were extremely helpful, encouraging, with different ideas and techniques offered on how to do things. All were gratefully received.
I am not a professional groundsman by any means - far from it! I studied agriculture at Hartpury College and have always loved working outside and being hands on with whatever I do. I am now an electrician; however, it is always nice to get down to the cricket field and do bits and bobs, and preparing the square and outfield in the summer gives me a great sense of achievement and satisfaction. It would be
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