Brocklesby Park Cricket Club's history may have been traced back as far as 1872.
The club - based on the Earl of Yarborough's ancestral estate - has a super website administered by Richard Bedwell, whose research into BPCC's history remains ongoing.
"I've been busy myself, with a visit to the Lincolnshire Archives in Lincoln to try and turn up some more information on the early days of the Club," he comments. "So far I've established that a game was played at Brocklesby Park between Kirmington and Caistor in 1872. This might be a case of mistaken identity on behalf of the Caistor scorer, and further research is needed to see if this was actually a Brocklesby Park team."
Club stalwart Michael Davey, back in 1995, wrote a brief history of the club - a very interesting read. You can download copies in PDF format direct from the website. It's well worth doing so.
Bedders reveals the Lincolnshire Archives contain scorebooks from Hainton Cricket Club, 1868-96 (that will be the Hainton club from the East Lindsey League, not the one based for some time at Healing), plus information about Britannia Works CC, Gainsborough, 1896-circa 1959; Lincolnshire Clergy Cricket Club, 1923-50; Lindum Cricket Club (Lincoln), 1872-1957; plus others.
Here's the link direct to the relevant page of the Brocklesby Park website so you can take a look BROCK PARK
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