Broadhalfpenny Down
Press Cuttings & Bibliography
Broadhalfpenny Down has been featured in numerous newspapers and cricket magazines, most recently in The Times and Sunday Telegraph.
Bibliography of The Hambledon Club and Broadhalfpenny Down.
Compiled by Stephen Saunders; please let us know via the contact page of any errors or omissions so we can update this list.
The Wiccamical Chaplet, A Selection of Original Poetry
edited by George Huddesford, pub. Leigh, Sotheby & Son 1804
Cricket Song. For The Hambledon Club, 1767
by Rev. Reynell Cotton (pages 131-133)
Pierce Egan’s Book of Sports and Mirror of Life
printed for T.T. and J.Tegg, Cheapside, London 1832, No. XXII The Cricketers (Hambledon – page 338)
The Young Cricketer's Tutor
by John Nyren pub. Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange, London 1833 (ten further editions were published)
Leigh Hunt’s London Journal, Wednesday, May 21, 1834
Containing review of The Young Cricketer’s Tutor and a personal description of John Nyren
The Cricket Field
by James Pycroft pub. Longman, Brown, Green and Longman 1851 (eight further editions were published)
Chronicles of Cricket
pub. Swan Sonnenschein & Co., London 1888 including Nyren’s Cricketers Guide
Nyren’s Cricketer’s Tutor
A New Edition with an introduction by Charles Whibley pub. David Nutt, The Strand 1893
Hambledon – E. V.Lucas’s Pilgrimage of 1896
Scrapbook. Also containing another pilgrimage described in Bailey’s Magazine of April, 1903
Old cricket and Cricketers
by H.H. Montgomery, D.D. pub. H.Stracey Gold, London & Wright & Co. London 1890
The 1p Pictorial Magazine
July 7th 1899 edited by Charles P. Sisley
A Peep into the Past
by W.R.Weir pub. Ayres 1902
Nyren’s Cricketer’s Tutor (The Sportsman’s Classics)
edited with an introduction by F.S. Ashley-Cooper pub. Gay and Bird, London 1902
Memorials of old Hampshire
edited by G.E.Jones pub. Bemrose 1906 contains ‘The Hambledon Cricket Club’ by Horace Hutchinson
The Hambledon Men
edited by E.V.Lucas pub. Henry Frowde, London 1907
Hambledon v. All England 1908
Illustrated Souvenir of the Cradle of Cricket no imprint 1908
Hambledon, Hants, Past & Present
by Dora Goldsmith
pub. T.Martin & Sons, 11 & 12 The Broadway, Bromley 1908
The Cradle of Cricket. A Hambledon Souvenir
by W.R.Weir pub. Wright & Co. 1908 (2nd edition 1909)
The Illustrated London News, August 12 1922 – 246.- The Birthplace of Cricket: Hambledon, Hants
by E.H.D. Sewell
All About Lyss
by Mrs. Bashford pub. D.H.Watney 1922
The Hambledon Cricket Chronicle 1772 – 1796
by F.S.Ashley-Cooper pub. Herbert Jenkins Ltd., London 1924
Cricket Match. New Year’s Day 1929
Broadhalfpenny Down, Hambledon, Hampshire Eskimos v. Invalids programme
The Cricketers of Hambledon song with a chorus for voice and piano
composed by Peter Warlock (pseudo.), words by Bruce Blunt (composed for the above match)
A Match at Cricket Hambledon v. H.M.S.Nelson, Broad-Halfpenny Down, 1st August 1931
souvenir programme printed on board H.M.S.Nelson, Portsmouth 1931
East of Itchen
by Gordon Lee Wheeler pub. Wodeland Publications, Guildford 1932
English Leaves
by E.V.Lucas pub. Methuen & Co. Ltd., London 1933 including John Nyren and The English Game
Nyren. A Short Bibliography
by G.Neville Weston privately published 1933
Cricket, Its Origin and Development
introduction by T.W. Garrett. book by George L. Garnsey pub. John Sands Ltd., Sydney 1935
The Island
by F.B. Young
pub. Heinemann 1944
including ‘On Windmill Down A.D. 1789
The Open Road
by E V Lucas pub. Grant Richards 1899 contains an article on Tom Sueter by John Nyren.
The Field is Full of Shades
by G.D. Martineau
pub. Sporting Handbooks, London 1946
Cricket on Saturday
by Graham White pub. Sporting Handbooks 1947 contains a chapter entitled The Way Back
The Cowden Clarkes
by Richard Daniel Altick pub. Oxford University Press 1948
The Cricketer’s Tutor: 1833 introduction by Neville Cardus
wood engravings by John O’Connor pub. The Dropmore Press, London 1948
From Hambledon to Lord’s. The Classics of Cricket
edited by John Arlott pub. Barry Shurlock & Co. Ltd., Winchester 1948 (new edition 1975)
including The Cricketers of My Time by John Nyren
Inns of Sport
pub. Whitbread & Co. Ltd. 1949 including The Bat and Ball, Hambledon