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Description: | Situated where Darnall cemetery is now situated. Extract from 'The Noblest Game', By Neville Cardus & John Arlott North East View of the Cricket Grounds at Darnall, near Sheffield, Yorkshire. Sepia aquatint by Robert Cruikshank "the landscape sketched by R. Thompson Esq." 6.7/8 in x 11in (17.5cm x 28cm) Robert Issac Cruikshank (1789-1856) had not the great gifts of his brother, George, but he was held in some esteem as both illustrator and etcher in an age of intense competition in those fields.He illustrated Westmacott's 'The London Spy, Lessons of Thrift, and The Wit's Almanack' and, in collaboration with his brother, Pierce Egan's Life in London. It is indicative of the importance of Darnall Cricket Ground that it should be the subject of a plate by a fashionable London artist: indeed, the authoritative Bell's Life described it as "second to none" among English cricket grounds.That shown in the picture is the second at Darnall: the first was opened, by a Mr. Steer, in 1821, but in the following year the stand collapsed and two spectators were killed.Mr. Steer at once set about making a larger ground nearby: it was ready for play in 1824.The artificial terrace provided seating for up to 8,000 people and the ground was at first successful.Under the managership of W. H. Woolhouse it put on All England v Twenty-two of Yorkshire in 1825 and, two years afterwards, the first of the historic "Experimental" matches, Sussex v All England, which resulted in change in the laws to permit bowling from the height of the shoulder.All at once, however, for the simplest of socio-economic reasons, the ground failed.Darnall was three miles from the centre of Sheffield the Hyde Park Groung only a mile and a half, Hyde Park became the centre of Sheffield and Yorkshire cricket and no great matches were played at Darnall after 1829. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/uk/ |
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Subjects: | Sheffield | Source: | Sheffield Images | Creator: | Picture Sheffield Administrator | Identifier: | http://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend... | Go to resource |
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