Calf Fallow Cricket Match
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On their way to Calf Fallow Cricket field with the tea. Photograph courtesy of John Trotter
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John Trotter
On their way to Calf Fallow Cricket field with the tea. S Gray, J Cotteral, Sid Mason Younger.
Posted on: 10/09/2007 15:55:22
Bob Irwin.
John Trotter. I know the exact spot where they are standing. The cart track to Kennedy's Farm and over the wash is just in front of them and to the left. The cricket field is again just a few yards further to the left. I worked with John Cotterill. I don't think he ever grew much more than you see him in the picture. I have enjoyed viewing the photographs you and your Mother have supplied.
Posted on: 12/09/2007 10:56:05
Bob Harbron
John, what an appropriate picture as this afternoon Monday 10th I spent over an hour in this Lane 'Brambling', collecting over 5lb. Not as big as last years crop but more berries. A few cars passed on the way to the riding-school, by the Beck, but it was really beautiful white high cloud, dazzling sun gleaming on the brambles, with the only sound a bright green combine-harvester buzzing away toward Wynyard, the Beck-side bushes turning gold and red. Do people 'Bramble' these days or is it another tradition thats going the way of the milk-man and blacksmith, the reason I ask? Years ago these cascade of berries would have been gone over the school-holiday time, when jam-jars , even hankies were used to take home this hedgerow bounty
Posted on: 11/09/2007 08:34:56
peter newell
I still go every year Bob you cant beat a fresh bramble pie. You will laugh when I tell you what happend last month while picking mushrooms, the farmer who was a young lad came over to me in the field and asked me what I had lost, I told him I was picking mushrooms then he scratched his head and gave me a funny look as if id just got out of the funny farm
Posted on: 11/09/2007 12:40:18
Bob Irwin.
A trip down 'Memory Lane.' I can remember the exact spot that this photograph was taken. It was our walk to Hawes Wood and also over to Wynyard. Seeing that small boy with the braces. The dress of the time. In fact it could be me but I don't think so. Remembering the cricket,the Kennedy brothers, John and Walter were quite a strong force with them. I think that Ken Crawford who lived in Calf Fallow also played. In the photograph is John Cotterill who worked with me for a number of years. Lovely photographs both you and your Mother are publishing. Thank you.
Posted on: 12/09/2007 12:59:09
Bob Harbron
Working by the sun-shadow , (2-30pm / 3-00pm , this nostalgic picture was just on the bend below Calf-fallow fields, with the slag-tip just in the picture left. The slight dip in the track behind the 'Tea-Walahs', was always wet, the field drain from Calf-fallow and after rain or wet weather was a running stream to BILLY-beck'. 'The Cricket-Field' still very rural is now a small holding with a shed and pig-shelters. This track was also the way 1st Norton Scouts took their tents and camping equipment to Hawes-wood site via 'Trek-Cart' more often than not a two wheel single shaft painters cart (Turners) The only sad absence these days is the ever climbing singing sky-larks, which once sang along this valley.
Posted on: 12/09/2007 14:43:08
Derek Graham
I played for Calf Fallow Cricket Club in the early 60's. The field we played on was rather rough to say the least. A pitch was cut out but the surround had to be used for cattle therefore it was uncut. To achieve a score of any kind you had to hit the ball into the air. Later we moved to Smith's Dock in Normanby for home games where we were promoted through the divisions of the Middlesbrough Mid Week League actually reaching "A" division. Names over the years I remember were Blakemores, Crawfords, Stephensons , Kennedys,Dennis Suttle, Harry Fawcett(scorer) and Station Master Mr. Brown Albert Thomas(Presidents) these stretching from the club restarting after the war up to its demise in the late 60's.
Posted on: 14/09/2007 10:44:51
gary Thompson
My father Raymond Thompson played for Calf Fallow in the late fifties early sixties mainly as a bowler after playing in the Lancashire leagues after the war.
Posted on: 19/11/2007 10:21:50
Sandra
Bob Irwin - You mentioned the cart track to Kennedy's farm. Do you know who owned this farm or anything about them?
Posted on: 01/02/2008 08:17:43
peter newell
Walter Kennedy,it was his father's before him and his sister still lives beside the farm (Mrs Woods ) the last I heard Walter was living in Station road in Norton. When we were kids it was common knowledge you kept well away from Kennedy's land , so no one chanced it.
Posted on: 01/02/2008 10:27:53
Bob Irwin
As far back as I remember the Farm belonged to Bob Kennedy which he farmed with his 2 sons John and Walter. John moved on later to a Farm along Blakeston Lane that belonged to Nuns or some religious group from the North Riding. Although this Farm was along Blakeston Lane it was adjacent to his Fathers land. The old man Kennedy in the early years lived in the Farmhouse but later on had a new house built (Rose Lea) and he moved in with his youngest daughter Dolly and her husband John Cotterill. One of the sons Walter then moved into the Farmhouse. Another daughter who married a man called Jack Wood also built a house near to the new one of Mr Kennedy. I believe that the Woods son Martin bought the Mill just below the Farm house. In the late 70's Bob Kennedy died and the Farm and land was divided up between the family as per his Will but was never farmed after that by the Kennedy's. Parts of it was sold and some of it leased for a number of years but the houses were still lived in by part of the Kennedy's.
Posted on: 01/02/2008 15:32:23
peter newell
Hi Bob , I can remember talking to old mr kennedy many years ago and I can always remember him saying all the land you can see between his house and blakeston lane was in his family thought he was joking he called it the ponderosa lol,and the house Walter lived in is now owned by Geordie Mellons daughter who has riding stables ,mrs woods only has the land behind her house now (the valley) up till last year she had a few sheep, and most of old mr Kennedys land is owned By David Elstob (tommy Elstobs Son )
Posted on: 04/02/2008 08:11:56
Tony Husband
What great memories this picture conjours up. My Dad, George, was brought up in Calf Fallow Lane. I spent many a long lazy summer in the 60s playing down the "fairy ring" and the old Stockton Stone/Concrete (later Marshalls) slag tip with my cousins Colin and David (Dodds). I believe David played for the Calf Fallow team along with Colin and Ian Crawford from the Lane. I still remember the sweet fresh taste of the water from the natural spring next to the tea hut and the electric cattle fence around the cricket pitch (ouch). We used to go skinny dipping down the Wash and hunt immaginary wild animals in "Johnny Hawes's Wood" and try to hitch a ride on the hay trailer back up to "Stivies (Stevensons) Farm" to feed the calves. Happy Days!!
Posted on: 04/02/2008 15:43:07
Barbara Madden
Oh yes memories of the farm! I was only about 5 but remember walking over to the farm with my mum Shirley Kennedy. Bob was her uncle and I remember some fun times. I lost all contact with the Kennedys when my mum was ill and later died. Often wondered about them and found out a lot by reading this, thanks for the memories.
Posted on: 24/07/2008 23:00:28
robert james morgan
just came across the perticular photo and the comments from tony husband, that name really brings back memories, dont know if he still looks on this site but if memory serves me correctly did he not come down and stay with colin dodds at weekends if it is the same person me and colin/david used to wait for him to get of the bus at the top of station road - still see ian crawford - not seen doddsy tho' for years. last i heard was that they lived in one of the roads of leven road
Posted on: 04/09/2008 14:46:55
Bob Irwin
Next to, and over, the hedge back to the cricket field on the side nearest to Hawes was a small house. To get to it you climbed over a stile. You could walk through the front of the house towards the Wash. When the door was open you could see a large fire burning. Could anyone name the people who lived there? I thought that they may be called Elliott, but I might be mixing them up with the people who had the smallholding at the beginning of Station Road on the R/H corner.
Posted on: 04/12/2008 14:25:04
Sylvia Trotter neeGray
I remember this house you refer to, it was known as Elliots hen farm. Situated near the wash, my brothers were always told to keep away from the wash as there had been a few accident's, young boys drowned.
Posted on: 05/12/2008 20:18:22
Alan Prosser
I remember a young lad drowned in Hawes wood (Ossie Wood) pond around 1958, a magical magnet to every kid in the area, full of frogs and newts, including greater crested newts about 8 inches long. Last time I was there it was a rubble fill site.
Posted on: 20/12/2008 18:19:39
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