In this second episode authors David Parry and Andrew Hignell outline some more of the history of cricket in North Wales focussing on the Colwyn Bay Cricket Club which was formed in 1923.
The episode opens with a discussion about Sydney Barnes, one of the most famous English cricketers of the Twentieth Century and his links to this part of Wales. See here for a brief outline:
https://www.cricketmuseum.wales/sydney-barnes-a-great-welsh-bowler/
There is some talk of the welsh cricket union and Gwilym Evans Rowland and his involvement with a team known as the Welsh Cygnets. See here for more details:
https://www.cricketmuseum.wales/the-welsh-cygnets-part-one/
David Parry outlines the emergence of Colwyn Bay Cricket Club as a source of great fundraising income in the years immediately after the Second World War. He also talks us through some of the first class cricket records which have been set at the Colwyn Bay ground during the time Glamorgan have played there. You can find more details here:
https://www.cricketmuseum.wales/colwyn-bay-cc-by-david-parry/
Copies of the book are available from Andrew at the Museum of Welsh Cricket. To make a request, please send an email to:
museum@glamorgancricket.co.uk