Mr Wooller's Legacy - A History of Cricket at Colwyn Bay and in Denbigshire (Part 1)

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This book, written and published to coincide with the centenary of Colwyn Bay Cricket Club, looks at the history of cricket in Denbigshire besides tracing how the club based in Rhos-on-Sea has become the venue for top class cricket in North Wales, as well as Glamorgan's northern outpost for first class cricket.

For a brief review of the book you can go here:

https://www.cricketweb.net/books/colwyn-bay/

In this first of two episodes we talk to co authors David Parry and Andrew Hignell covering the first third of the book which deals with cricket in the area in the 19th century, the arrival of the Wooller family in North Wales and the formation of Colwyn Bay Cricket Club in 1923.

Along the way we talk about Victorian Prime Minister William Gladstone.  More about his links with cricket in the area can be found here:

https://glamorgancricketarchives.com/2021/04/20/the-prime-minister-who-played-club-cricket-in-flintshire/

Copies of the book are available form the Museum of Welsh Cricket which can be contacted by email:

higgers@glamorgancricket.co.uk

It's website with much more about the history of the game in Wales is available here:

https://www.cricketmuseum.wales