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The dawn breaks as the mist rises off the River Irwell at the bend of the river in Salford, and one of Manchester's earliest cricket clubs is born. At the break of day cricketers meet to play at the Adelphi, a green field opposite The Crescent in Salford. The team was called 'The Aurora' for they met at dawn to play cricket. This was Salford 100 years before Lowry painted the mill chimney and factory streets.<p>
Meanwhile thirty miles to the west, in Liverpool, young men wipe the sleep from their eyes as they assemble in the cow shed on Mosslake Fields, to change their clothes and to take a drink of fresh milk to serve as their breakfast. They are anxious not to be late and incur a fine for their transgression from the fellow members of the 'Original and Unrivalled Mosslake Fields Cricket Society.'<p>
This was the grass-roots of our cricket here in Lancashire. Enthusiastic young men determined to play the g~me even if it meant getting up at the crack of dawn and getting in a couple of hours play before their elders and betters demanded all their time for work and lessons.<p>
To set out and document the First-class cricket grounds in Lancashire has been an interesting and rewarding journey. Thanks should be given to the late Gordon Tratalos who set us on course by providing the definitive list of grounds.<p>
Among the grounds are a few surprises:- Ashton-under-Lyne, where Yorkshire played a home match! Nelson, allowed to stage matches as a goodwill gesture for the signing of their professional, Ted McDonald; an obscure ground in Bolton and Lancaster's solitary county match; and Whalley, where the first Roses Match was played-and newcomer Lytham. In contrast there is mighty Liverpool who at one time thought to challenge Manchester as a cricketing centre, and superior Western who did not allow the general public to enter to watch the important matches played there. <p>
Researching these grounds one realises how colourful cricket was in the 19th century. The large crowds drawn from all sections of society. The amateurs in their spacious pavilion, the professionals in their converted cow-shed! The Ormskirk Gingerbread Lady selling her delicacies at Old Trafford and Lillywhite's tent, with his portable printing press for the scorecards. The All England Eleven and the large amounts wagered on their matches-and an unusual figure at their games sitting and painting the scene. The watercolourist Nicholas Felix, producing the most evocative paintings of cricket grounds during that period. <p>
Manchester's great underarm bowlers Lea Birch and John Sherman not to mention one Julius Caesar who played for the club. 
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Fred Reynolds, the ground-keeper, shooting pigeons as he strode across the field at Old Trafford-and his secret whisky store in the roof of the pavilion. <p>
Gilbert Jessop hitting a mighty six into the Warwick Road Station, and the ball being recovered by a signalman from between the rails. The splendour of the Old Trafford pavilion, where it is said that Walter Brearley once laid a bet that he would leave the pavilion, complete his innings, and be back in the pavilion in the time it took the clock to strike twelve. And won! <p>
lan Botham's spectacular innings in 1981 against Australia and Viv Richard's devastating 189 in a limited overs match. Not to mention the 35-minute century by Steve O'Shaughnessy to equal the world record. Each of the grounds we have visited has a story to tell, and all twenty have witnessed the drama of First-class cricket. It is a sobering thought that this booklet could be complete for a long time as it seems very difficult to imagine where the twenty-first ground in Lancashire will be where First-class cricket might be played. <p>
MALCOLM LORIMER, Hon. Librarian<br/>
DON AMBROSE, Assistant Hon. Librarian.<br/>
Lancashire CCC<br/>
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