Harrogate Cricket Club
Geographic Details.
County Cricket Board
Yorkshire
Project Start Date
Project Completion Date
August 2011
Funding Stream(s)
ECB and Club Fundraising
Location (Inner-city/Urban/Rural)
Urban
Applicant / Organisation Status
Author and Title
ECB Clubmark, Chance To shine, Focus Club
Accreditation
S R Culleton Chairman
Date
15/11/11
Quantitative and Qualitative Detail.
Background.
This has been the home of Harrogate Cricket Club since 1877 and five years later it staged its first 1st
Class match when an England XI played the touring Australians (believed to be the first 1st Class game
to start on a Saturday). In 1894 Yorkshire staged their first Championship fixture and they continued to
play there regularly until 1996. Between 1974 and 1996 an annual Harrogate festival was held. In 1904
the ground was at the centre of controversy when a game against Kent was abandoned after the pitch
was interfered with overnight - this was not the first time such an occurrence was reported. The best
attendance was 15,000 who attended an India vs. Pakistan charity match in 1996 - Yorkshire's best was
13,630 for a match against Glamorgan in 1962.
In May 2008 the Pavilion that had stood for 109 years was destroyed by arson and so the club
approached the ECB for help and guidance, the rest as they say is history.
Aims and Objectives.
Over the years Harrogate Cricket Club has evolved into a community based club with outstanding
pitches to the front and rear of the site of the old Pavilion. The smaller pitch to the rear of the club is
used predominantly by the Junior cricketers during the week and by the 3rd or 4th Team on a Saturday.
Given the layout of the ground this pitch can feel isolated but the new double fronted pavilion has
succeeded in reinforcing the importance that the club places on all standards of Cricket and in particular
the Junior game.
We are committed to expand Woman’ and Girls Cricket in the locality and our first rate facilities should
prove a draw for girls hoping to take up the sport.
On a more practical level the new pavilion will assist the club, in good housekeeping, through increased
commercial opportunities in these austere times.
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The Construction.
Achievements to date.
 Three years of changing in Portakabins have gone. Warm showers are available for tired
players, and umpires enjoy their own privacy in first class changing rooms
 Hundreds of visitors and the national media attended the opening of the pavilion in August 2011
 Yorkshire Womens County Cricket Team has relocated to Harrogate CC
 Harrogate CC has been lucky enough to stage junior representative cricket matches at the
ground this summer
 Harrogate CC has given the town a sporting facility to be very proud of
Pictures.
Damage caused by the fire to the old pavilion
The brand new Harrogate Cricket Club pavilion
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Main partners involved.
Architects Seven Architecture Harrogate
Project Co-ordinater/ Quantity Surveyors : Evolve Harrogate
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Building Contractors : Houseman Falshaw Harrogate
Comments from the organisation.
Words cannot express the debt of gratitude that we owe to The ECB; we cannot begin to guess where
our future would lie without their expert guidance and their invaluable funding. It is a daunting enough
prospect to confront the destruction of over a century’s worth of history; it is however much more
daunting to contemplate how to satisfactorily replace and improve upon what went before. That was
reduced to a far less ferocious beast by the calming influence of the ECB and all the professionals
mentioned above.
Special mention must go to Dan Musson, the Regional Funding Manager at the England and Wales
Cricket Board, who never tired of foolish questions and was always available to give freely of his time
and expertise.
We have to say that with the manner in which they take care of Cricket at the grass-roots level, and with
their forward looking approach to the development of cricket in England and Wales, it is little wonder that
England sits at the pinnacle of two forms of the game.
Headline Figures and Statistics.
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Pavilion cost £825,000 to build
Harrogate CC will work with 16 schools in 2012 with the support of YCB and Chance to
Shine
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Over 800 children will play cricket next year via Harrogate CC
The new venue will help Harrogate host the Yorkshire County Women’s team and many
other County age group squads
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For further information contact:
Steven Culleton
Chairman
Harrogate Cricket Club
1 St Georges Rd
Harrogate
North Yorkshire
HG5 0SN
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