Category: Recent Additions

We were so pleased to receive a donation of this delightful miniature bat measuring 3inches high from Ms Jane Hodgkin, autographed by the Somerset CCC players from 1964.

Some recent additions to the Somerset Cricket Museum collections- with grateful thanks to the donors

Batting gloves belonging to Bill Andrews, an SCCC mug and a Lashings shirt autographed by Viv Richards

We are very grateful to Joanna Cotterell for the donation of this cricket bat, from the collection of the late Dave Gilham, autographed by the Somerset team as part of the centenary celebrations 1891 – 1991.

We are very grateful for this donation of a 1957 Fixture Card, sponsored by the (then) Somerset and Wiltshire Trustee Savings Bank. We are sure some readers will remember both the Bank and some of the matches in this very crowded season.

We are very grateful to SCCC scorer Polly Rhodes for passing on this collection of Umpire’s clothing from Jasmine Naeem.

Umpires Naeem Ashraf and his wife, Jasmine, made history, when they became the first husband and wife to officiate together at a professional cricket match.

The Museum is in the process of widening the display of Women’s Cricket Memorabilia as the Club takes on its Tier 1 role in 2025.

The Somerset Cricket Museum is very pleased to have received this donation from Andy Caddick – thanks Andy.

We are very grateful to former Somerset Scorer, Colin Crees for his painstaking research in producing and publishing a 50 page booklet of County Cricket at Glastonbury and Street.

A wonderful record of matches played there between 1952 and 1978.

As Colin says in his conclusion , all proceeds from the sale of the booklets (£5) will go to the Somerset Cricket Museum. Do let me know if you would like a copy.

Thank you Colin.

The Somerset Cricket Museum is very grateful to Somerset County Cricket Club scorer, Polly Rhodes, for passing on these two international umpires shirts from Sue Redfern.

After a long playing and umpiring career, in September 2023 Sue became the first female umpire to stand in a first-class match in England and Wales. She umpired in the match between Glamorgan and Derbyshire at Sophia Gardens.

Two wonderful items to join our Women’s Cricket collection.

We are very grateful to Museum Volunteer, Patrick Draycott for researching and setting up the new Vic Marks display along with one of the three international blazers that Vic donated to the Museum.

We are very grateful to Mr John Wall for the loan of this autographed miniature bat from the 1964-65 tour to South Africa. Of particular interest to Somerset fans are signatures of Jim Parkes and Tom Cartwright both of whom played for us in the latter parts of their careers

This collection of trophies that came into the Somerset Cricket Museum are associated with the (former) Taunton Nomads CC and Mr Ken Knight mostly from the late 1960s.

If anyone has any knowledge of the Nomads CC please let the Museum know via the Contact page.

The trophies, some of which are pictured below, range from Winners and Runners Up of the TNCC Single Wicket Competition, the TECL (Taunton Evening Cricket League?) winners in 1969 and 1970 plus the HGS (Huish Grammar School?) 1939 junior cricket team championship winners.

Several pieces of cricket memorabilia found their way into the museum this week for which we are very grateful.

• an Umpires badge brought in by the son of Mr Rex Sims from Sidmouth CC
• an autographed programme from the 1980 Blackthorn Challenge – Viv Richards v Mike Procter, signed by Joel Garner and Hugh Gore
• some old Cricket rule books

We are very grateful to Mr. Michael Metherell for these two items. The match / programme is mentioned in his article Cricket Memories of Somerset and Berkshire (on the website).

And on the sweater, can anyone help with some history of the old Taunton Outcasts CC for whom Michael played. I will collate any responses into an article for the Club History section of the website.

We are very grateful to Mr. Ian Keitch, who brought these items of memorabilia into the Museum today. The items belonged to his father, Geoff Keitch, a Somerset CCC member, who had recently died. Thank you Ian for the booklet, programme, ticket and scorecard.

They will certainly complement the article on the website, The Forgotten Final, by Richard Walsh.

We are very grateful to Mr Roy New (Museum member and former Secretary to Berkshire County Cricket Club) for finding and donating this plaque, commemorating the Life Time Membership of SCCC awarded to Mr C.J. Ondaatje, to the Museum (September 2023)

We are very grateful to Richard Twort (author) for the donation of this book – an extensive book that documents the history of Uphill Castle Cricket Club. Extracts from the book will be published shortly on the Club History section of the Museum’s website.

We are very grateful to Richard Brice for this 1983 bat and case (pictured below) autographed by the Somerset team.

We are moving the Women’s Cricket displays from being England centric to a more regional base, do come to the Museum and see the new Anya Shrubsole display and memorabilia.

We are very grateful to Mr Roger Hines for the donation of this bat autographed by team members from Somerset, Kent, Middlesex, Surrey and Northamptonshire.

We are very grateful to Mrs Patricia Minson for the donation of many items of cricket memorabilia from her late husband’s collection – including an SCCC Members Blazer (circa 1985-1990), an autographed picture of Viv Richards, a home made SCCC pennant (taken to all away games) and a cricket cap with badges from all 18 counties.

We are very grateful to Mr. Malcolm Hill for donating several boxes of books for the Museum Bookshop and this game of Wicketz

We are very grateful to an anonymous donor for giving these Annuals (amongst other things) to the Museum. These and the Playfair Annuals ran concurrently until the same publisher owned both and decided to merge them in 1963, Playfair taking on the format of the News Chronicle annual.

We are very grateful to Mr. David Seaman and Mr. Geoff Dawe for the books they have donated to the Museum and to David for the lovely set of framed cards pictured below,

Thanks to James for this autographed bat

We are very grateful to Mr.Tony Elston for the donation of two books which will be placed in the upstairs Museum bookshelf for avid researchers to wend their way through.

We are very grateful to Museum Volunteer, Mr. Paul Smith, for donating this game to the Museum and filling a gap in the Cricket Toy display drawer.

We are very grateful to Sarah Hawken for sending the autographs to the Museum. Another reminder of the long association of the Somerset and Kidmore End Cricket Clubs.

To look at the history of this long association click here.

Former England and Somerset cricketer Jan Godman (pictured here with Museum Volunteer Patrick Draycott) recently called into the Somerset Cricket Museum at the Cooper Associates County Ground in Taunton to donate a Cup and Photograph to add to the Women’s and Girls Cricket collection

We are very grateful to Mr Garry Merrifield from Bristol and Mr Lloyd Shattock for their kind donations of bats to the Museum. Garry has sent us a bat (in memory of his Auntie Pat who took him to Taunton to watch cricket matches), autographed by the 1984 West Indies Touring Team including some Somerset CCC favourites and Lloyd has given us an SS Jumbo bat, once owned / used by Viv Richards.

We have recently acquired two framed commemorative prints donated by Somerset County Cricket Club, A list of Somerset Stragglers members who presented a silver bowl to the Revd. E.P. Spurway in 1912 and a list of SCCC Supporters who donated to the 1991 Centenary Appeal.

We are very grateful to Mr. Harry Everrett for the donation of a small bat autographed by the Somerset Stragglers team following their match v Ramblers July 2022, continuing their long history. The bat pictured below has been added to the Stragglers collection.

We are very grateful to Mr. I Stone, pictured here with Richard Johnson, for loaning this autographed cricket shirt (from the 2005 season) to the Somerset Cricket Museum.

We are very grateful to Brigid Riddell for two donations from her fathers cricket collection. An autographed salver commemorating the SCCC wins in the Gillette Cup and John Player League in 1979 and tankard presented to her father for his role as President of the Somerset Wyverns between 1984 and 1986.