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A Potted History of Torrisholme Cricket Club

Founded in 1947 the club initially played in the Lancaster and District Cricket League and held games on the ground now occupied by the Vale of Lune Rugby Club number three pitch.

Thanks to the foresight and hard work of a group of members the current picturesque ground off Barley Cop Lane was purchased and the club played its first game on the ground in 1969, after joining the Palace Shield Competition to play a higher standard of cricket. In its first season in this competition the club won promotion to the top division and the Meyler Cup.

In the late seventies Jessie Lockwood and her husband Cecil became heavily involved at the club, attending every home game and offering particularly strong support to the junior section (Jessie referred to them as 'her boys'). Initially set up and coached by the remarkable Jim Dyak, who had difficulty walking and used an invalid carriage, many fine local cricketers came through the ranks.

After a period of decline in the early 1990's the junior section was revived in 1995 by John Ball, initially coaching his own son and a group of school friends.

The Torrisholme Cricket Club Junior Section has gone from strength to strength and now runs four age group teams, has well over 100 members and has 8 ECB trained coaches supported by a team of helpers. We have a number of girls involved, several members from ethnic minorities and we cater for a range of disabilities.

The club is affiliated to the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) through the Lancashire Cricket Board (LCB), is an ECB Focus Club and achieved Clubmark Status in August 2005 having implemented the ECB 'Safe Hands' child protection policy and appointed a trained Welfare Officer. We were a founding member of the local Cricket Development Group.

Despite all this hard work, time, effort and commitment no one is paid or takes expenses from involvement in the Junior Section. The clubs senior teams are now seeing the benefit with several current or recent juniors in each team.

Thanks to generous funding from the ECB, SITA Trust and a substantial investment from club funds a new shower and changing block with full disabled access was constructed over the Winter or 2008-09. This facility will be a huge benefit to the club but will also provide a focus for local girls and disabled cricket and a base for district age group squads.

Further grants from Awards for All, the ECB, Galbraith Trust, Lancaster City Council and the Palace Shield Development Fund have allowed the club to replace an artificial wicket, install a CCTV security system, repair the grounds maintenance equipment and make some improvements in the pavilion.

The club is grateful to all these bodies, to main contractor Phil Rogerson Limited for their commitment and flexibility and to the many members, supporters and sponsors who have invested time, energy and not a little money in getting the club to this point.

It is important that this momentum is maintained and that the club remains financially viable and has success on the field.

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