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Description: | It is considered that Slough Cricket and Bowls Club has had the longest continuous existence of any sports club in Slough. Before moving to the Chalvey Road East ground, the club played at the Dolphin Ground on the Uxbridge Road. An annual match was reported between Slough and Colnbrook in 1860 and it is believed that the club existed at least ten years before that date. The club move to a ground on Chalvey Road East in 1899.
The Dolphin Hotel adjoining the ground was built in 1869 to replace an earlier hotel nearby on the Bath Road. Up until about 1925 the ground was used by Slough Football Club and in 1928 the ground was converted into a Greyhound Track. The football team moved to Wexham Park. G.Bennett senior, who had taken over the running of the hotel in 1914, converted the hotel to a boxing training headquarters in 1932. This closed in 1937. In 1986 the greyhound track was closed and the site redeveloped as a supermarket. The Dolphin Hotel was rebuilt at the same time on the same site as the earlier building. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Rights holder: | Slough Library | Subjects: | Dolphin Ground ; Slough Cricket Club Cricket ; Sports and games | Temporal: | start=1892-01-01; end=1892-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Copy by Reg Harrison | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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