Memories
Earlier in the week we posted this story about a Marsden Park team from way back and wanted more information about the team and bowlers. Dave Parkin has been digging in The Examiner archives and come up with a few options as to what the team and year was.
Barbara Peacock shared the photograph with me from a family collection that features her Grandfather, Fred Coupland, who is featured on the far left of the back row. Barbara believes that the photograph was taken at the green at Marsden Park and estimates the year could have been from the mid-1920's but that may be well off the mark. On the back of the photo is a list of numbered names which she assumes reveals the names of the bowlers, working left to right starting with the back row.
Back row: 1. Fred Coupland 2. Tom Thornton 3. unknown 4. Wilf Gledhill Middle row: 5. Maurice Horncastle 6. unknown 7. Alf Mason 8. Mark Ward 9. unknown 10. Brodie (Broadbent) 11. unknown
Front row: 12. Wilf Sykes 13. George Wood
Dave Parkin has uncovered three articles from The Examiner archives from the period 1925 to 1938 when the Marsden Cricket & Bowling Club team enjoyed some success winning the Drayton Cup and the Binns Cup and there is a decent match of names in the articles compared with Barbara's original photograph.
In addition Dave derives from these articles that Barbara's grandmother also bowled and is mentioned in the report on the 2nd Huddersfield Merit in 1935.
Dave goes on to say:
I did a bit more digging & Marsden won Binns Cup in 1930 & many of the names on Barbara’s list appeared in the reports. The photo below is poor quality sadly and grandad Coupland is not in the team but did play in the 12 man Henry Taylor earlier in the year.
If reading any of these press cuttings has prompted your grey cells and you think that you can add to any of these stories then please get in touch and help Barbara to fill the gaps in her family history further.
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