Vice Presidents for Stowupland Cricket Club
Thomas Brame from Poole Farm, Thorney Green, so he would not have had far ro walk to watch the cricket.
Unfortunately Mr Bertie Lazell felt unable to become a VP, possibly as the local post master he felt he did not have the time. This photo shows Bertie in his younger days as a fireman.
Mr Leslie Berridge from The Old Farm, Mill Street accepted with a very generous donation, bemoaning the fact that he felt he was too old to play.
Eric Stearn’s family had farmed at Sheepcote Hall for many decades. His wife was very involved in the WI and they often opened their gardens for village and church fetes.
Mr E.Wilden of Millgreen Farm, Mill Street, felt that he could not take on another commitment so declined to be a VP, but did make a donation.
Mr Peter Henry Carter, from Green Farm i.e. just behind the Green where the cricket pitch was, accpeted the role of VP and luckily for the club offered to help with the pitch preparation.
Mr Thomas Chaplin from Stowupland Hall. He and his wife Muriel had moved into Stowupland Hall 6 years earlier.
We know very little about the occupiers or owners of Braziers Hall.
Mr and Mrs Frank Mann were the last shop keepers in the shop on the front Green that had for several years been known as Matthias’.
Mr Charles Mills of Willowcroft was delighted to become a VP and also gave a donation of £5.00
In 1967 Major Philip G Tanner had replied to a letter from SCC accepting the invitation of becoming a VP so long as he could be an ‘absentee for the time being’. He concluded ‘I am sorry I shall not be able to get to your party on 8 November, Berlin is rather a long way to come.’
In the attached letter of 1968 he writes that he is ‘definitely leaving the army this year’.
