New storyboards tape-record the background of Lostock Cricket Club

Lostock Cricket Club remains to improve its head office at Chew Moor with the current instalment of a function which, otherwise one-of-a-kind, is definitely extremely hardly ever located in organization cricket circles.

Most club’s screen inconsonant aspects of their background on their structure or club wall surfaces, in the kind of pictures, prizes, bats, and so forth.

But Lostock’s ingenious brand-new function envelops the club’s whole background in a co-ordinated method, utilizing a mix of words and photos on 4 huge ‘storyboard’ panels.

Two of these give a story of ‘potted history’, one includes a striking collection of colour pictures graphically showing the advancement of the brand-new ground at Chew Moor, in Westhoughton, and the quartet is comprised by a panel presenting essential club documents.

The brand-new boards give an excellent enhance to the surrounding likewise outstanding selection of honours boards, revealed 5 years back, and committed to the memory of club stalwart Norman Taylor.

In the context of cricket’s lengthy and fabled background, Lostock, at simply 87 years of ages, is a plain young person, with England’s earliest club established 340 years back, and the world-famous MCC at Lord’s going back to 1787.

However, the Lostock tale is a fairly impressive one, with a lot loaded right into their 9 years, consisting of using 6 various premises, in 7 various organizations, and under 5 various names!

The phase in this vibrant tale leading up to the facility of the brand-new ground at Chew Moor in 2017 consists of lots of injuries, tests and adversities.

But the future is currently worked out and established reasonable, as the club remains to create quickly on and off the area, currently fielding an overall of 8 groups, 3 at elderly degree and 5 at younger degree.

While a business club for much of its background – as De Havilland, Hawker Siddeley, and British Aerospace – considering that relocating to Westhoughton, Lostock CC has actually quickly turned into an effective and preferred neighborhood club and social center, with the exceptional club centers being progressively utilized as the location for a varied series of exclusive features.

One such prominent event was held previously in the month, when Councillor Gillian Wroe, of Westhoughton Town Council, selected Lostock for the congratulatory event following her launch as the brand-new Town Mayor.

And with Councillor Andy Morgan, the recently-retired Mayor of Bolton – and a normal advocate at Lostock in current periods – being amongst the lots of public visitors, the club was honoured when these 2 very important people kindly consented to execute the introduction event of the storyboards, which had actually been mounted simply 2 days previously.

The brand-new screen was assembled and contributed to the club by Rob Lucas of Rob Lucas Consultancy Ltd., that was a principal in guiding the Chew Moor task, and club head of state and life participant, David Kaye, that started having fun with the club 62 years back, back in its De Havilland days.