Defunct North East Cricket Leagues

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Sir Talbot Buxomley

Sir Talbot Buxomley

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I am not talking about the Durham Senior League etc, but the smaller " grassroots " leagues that have gone by the wayside.

Can anyone remember the Coxhoe and District League containing Durham North End CC and I believe a second team from Fishburn CC and possibly Winterton Hospital CC, and at one time a team from Eppleton Colliery Welfare Cricket Club who's ground was now where the Hetton Centre building stands ?......or how about the ( I think it was ) the Sunderland and District League which was played midweek with teams such as Vedra CC and Albion CC.

I am not talking about Victorian times here.....hell I am not near pension age, but these leagues were going strong when I was a kid.
 


Eppleton CW played in the Coast League. Don’t know when the Sunderland and District League ended, but was still around in late 80s, using matting pitches.
 
C.ra.ig said:
Eppleton CW played in the Coast League. Don’t know when the Sunderland and District League ended, but was still around in late 80s, using matting pitches.
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I remember going to eppleton cw with me da when they were in the coast league - must have been late 80's/early 90's iirc. was a canny little ground iirc.
 
Johnap said:
Eppleton CW were in the Coast League in the late 70s.
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Their ground was just over the beck from my back garden. A couple of years before I moved there, there was a Durham Coast League cricket team and a Northern League football team. Games I could have watched from the comfort of my back bedroom!

Sir Talbot Buxomley said:
Eppleton CW also played in the Mid Durham Senior League and entered a team in the Coxhoe and District League at one time.
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My former club Belmont played in the Mid Durham Senior League 1957-70. Some clubs had pros so must have been a fair standard. I think it went sometime in the 1980s. Hunwick, Willington, Ushaw Moor and Bearpark were also in it.

There was also the Tyne and Wear Midweek League which ended in 2007. I played in it for Chilton Moor in the 1990s, there might even have been 2 divisions at that point and for Belmont in its last year's. Brandon were members.
 
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brandon said:
It's too easy marra.
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Maybe but its still the truth. The best league by far in the NorthEast destroyed by petty ambitious administrators.
And look where we r . Local cricket languishing and the precious county in the second division for not being able to run their own finances properly.
Lets hope there's a market for used electric scoreboards.
 
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wicketkeeper said:
Maybe but its still the truth. The best league by far in the NorthEast destroyed by petty ambitious administrators.
And look where we r . Local cricket languishing and the precious county in the second division for not being able to run their own finances properly.
Lets hope there's a market for used electric scoreboards.
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:rolleyes:
 
wicketkeeper said:
Maybe but its still the truth. The best league by far in the NorthEast destroyed by petty ambitious administrators.
And look where we r . Local cricket languishing and the precious county in the second division for not being able to run their own finances properly.
Lets hope there's a market for used electric scoreboards.
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And off we go
 
wicketkeeper said:
Maybe but its still the truth. The best league by far in the NorthEast destroyed by petty ambitious administrators.
And look where we r . Local cricket languishing and the precious county in the second division for not being able to run their own finances properly.
Lets hope there's a market for used electric scoreboards.
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:lol:
 
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