Re: Cricket Grounds of The World
Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 2:51 pm
Little Durnford, Turnford, Hertfordshire, England @ Francis Frith Collection (alias Little Turnford via Fumblefingers-on-the-keyboard)
Albondiga wrote: ... There was a place called Little Durnford which sadly no longer stages cricket but besides being an excellent wicket had a backdrop which is impossible to forget. ..
Keepashes: Hi Albondiga, I saw your post when I was totally fed up with searching for the Dead Sea Cricket Ground (which of course would be even further below sea level than Bourda if it happens to exist around here http://wikimapia.org/#lat=31.4286631&lo ... =0&m=s&v=9 somewhere) via the ground used as the cricket venue at the 2009 Maccabiah Games http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket_at ... biah_Games but which seems to be unlocatable at Ashdod, Israel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashdod ( feel free to join in the Ashdod Cricket Ground search at http://wikimapia.org/#lat=31.7946495&lo ... =0&m=s&v=9 somewhere). Eager for a change, I opened yet another window on my notepad and did a quick Google on "Little Turnford" by mistake. The cute picture above came up at http://www.francisfrith.com/turnford/ . A little further research revealed that Francis Frith was a 19th century English photographer who became the largest supplier of postcards in the UK, and whose collection is continuing into the 21st century e-business of the same name, with the aid of thousands of folk who like to contribute their memories of the small towns of England shown in the postcards. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Frith It seemed like a site worth mentioning on this thread.
Wikepedia : "Francis Frith & Co. continues "His family continued the firm, which was finally sold in 1968 and closed in 1970. Following closure of the business in 1970 ... [in] 1977 John Buck bought the archive ...and has continued to run it as an independent business since that time - trading as The Francis Frith Collection" - see http://www.francisfrith.com/ .