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
Cricket all his Life
by E.V. Lucas assembled and arranged by Rupert Hart-Davis
pub. Rupert Hart-Davis 1950 contains chapters on Hambledon and John Nyren
Hambledon v. Feathercombe 1928-1950 The story of a village cricket match
by W. Dean pub. Milford, Surrey 1951
Hambledon Cricket and The Bat and Ball Inn
by Diana Rait Kerr pub. Henty & Constable (Brewers) Ltd. 1951 reprint 1963
A grand Coronation festival old-time match at cricket on Broad Halfpenny Down Saturday 30th May 1953
The Men of Hambledon v. Ancient Firemen pub. Buckley Press Ltd. 1953
The Men of Hambledon v. Ancient Mariners
pub. 1958
Grand Bi-Centenary Cricket Match (1757-1957) on Broad Halfpenny Down, Sunday, 14th July 1957
Hambledon v. Dartford pub. Kemp Bros. & Wooton, Ltd., Gosport 1957
The Reynell Cotton Memorial Match
Rudgwick C.C. v. Rev. David Sheppard’s XI souvenir programme May 23, 1959
The Lord’s Taverners v. Broad halfpenny Brigands At Broadhalfpenny Down
Sunday 10th September 1961
The Lord’s Taverners versus Broadhalfpenny Brigands
Sunday 8th September 1963 programme
The Cricket Quarterly Volume 3, Number 2 Spring 1965
pub. Rowland Bowen, Eastbourne, Sussex article: The Nyren Descent
The Nyrens of Eartham and Hambledon
by Edmund Esdaile pub. Boscombe Printing Co. 1967
Hampshire the County Magazine July 1969
Hambledon the Cricket Village by John Arlott
The Young Cricketer’s Tutor
John Nyren introduced by John Arlott pub. Davis-Poynter Ltd., London 1974
Hambledon, The Biography of a Hampshire Village
by John Goldsmith pub. Winton Publications Ltd., Winchester 1971
Hambledon & Denmead Photographic History of Village Life to 1950
by Terry Norman pub. Norman Mather & Associates, Alresford 1976
Bicentenary Cricket Match Hambledon C.C. v. England (M.C.C.)
on Broadhalfpenny Down, Hambledon, Sunday, 31st July 1977 programme
Hambledon Guidebook
by Kenneth Roberts pub. Hambledon Parish Council 1978
Hambledon C C v. R M C Gilliat’s Hampshire XI
At Brook Lane, Hambledon. Saturday 2nd September 1978
Programme.
Alresford Displayed – Winter 1978-79
Paper No.9 Alresford’s Famous Cricketers by John Arlott
Village Cricket
by Gerald Howat pub. David & Charles (Publishers) Ltd., London 1980 contains a chapter entitled Eighteenth-Century Village
250th Anniversary of the Noble Sport at Slindon Cricket Club
pub. Interscope, Bognor Regis 1981 significant detail on Richard Newland
Tales of Old Hampshire
by Cecelia Millson
pub. Countryside Books, Newbury, Berks 1980
(cover Bat & Ball Inn Sign, Chapter: Cricket at Hambledon)
Tales of Old Hampshire
By Cecelia Millson Pub. Countryside Books, Newbury, Berks 1980 Chapter: Cricket at Hambledon
Wisden Cricket Monthly September 1983
Article: Cricket’s Bestseller by John Arlott
Final of the Village Knock-out Competition Hambledon versus Toft (Cheshire)
Saturday, 26th August 1989 programme
Down Your Way by Brian Johnston
pub. Methuen, London 1990 contains a chapter entitled The South
Bat & Ball C C Invitation XI v. Hampshire C C C
On Tuesday 20th June 1995 on Broadhalfpenny Down
Celebrating centenary as members of the County Cricket Championship Souvenir brochure
The Glory Days of Cricket: The Extraordinary Story of Broadhalfpenny Down
by Ashley Mote pub. Robson Books, London 1997
John Nyren’s The Cricketers of My Time
introduced and edited by Ashley Mote pub. Robson Books, London 1998
Official Opening of The New Pavilion
Broadhalfpenny Down Association Patron’s Invitation XI v Broadhalfpenny Brigands CC
Tuesday 22 June 1999 programme
Hambledon Cricket Club 250 not out. Millennium Souvenir 250th Anniversary Programme
pub. for the club by Holbrooks Printers Ltd., Portsmouth 2000
Start of Play Cricket Culture in 18th century England
by David Underdown pub. Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, London 2000
Hambledon’s Cricket Glory
by Ronald Knight pub. Bat and Ball Press, Weymouth, Dorset
Here’s The Hambledon Club
by Neil Jenkinson pub. Downend Books, Winchester 2001
Hambledon The Men and the Myths
by John Goulstone pub. Roger Heavens, Cambs. 2001
James Aylward: The Untold Story
by Roy Clarke pub. Cricket Lore Ltd., London 2001
Hambledon Cricket and The Bat and Ball Inn
pub. Hambledon Trading Company/Brindley Cards 2004
Centenary Cricket Match on Broadhalfpenny Down Hambledon XII v BHDA Invitation XII
Saturday, September 13, 2008 souvenir programme
Cricket at Hambledon & Broadhalfpenny Down
by Dave Allen privately printed 2009
