After a gap of five years cricket Torr Park will once again echo to the sound of leather on willow. Without cricket (and bowls) Torr Park was simply reverting to a field, but now it will be a field with a purpose – a cricket field.
The rapidly expanding South Liverpool Cricket Club were looking for an extra facility to acomodate all their teams. They entered into discussions with Wirral Council, came to an agreement, and hope to resume cricket in Torr Park from April this year (2025).
We should like to welcome the club to Eastham, not only from Eastham Village Preservation Association, but from all residents of Eastham. We will do all that we can to help you thrive in a village atmosphere.
The club are running a ‘go fund me’ appeal to help raise the £15000 necessary to get the cricket pitch and the facilities up to standard. Please give whatever you can afford. This is the link, please donate via go fund me – gofund.me/a7c821cf
It is interesting to note that Eastham is becoming quite a sporting hub. It already acomodates a first class golf club (Eastham Lodge), an excellent rugby club (Anselmians) and now a cricket team! Anyone out there want to revive the excellent crown green that still lurks under the mini, seldom-used, football field? And how about quoits and croquet? Eastham had a quoits team and croquet was certainly very popular too.
On an historical note cricket was first played in Eastham in 1854, with the cricket pitch being laid out by Mr John Torr, some three years before he built his family home of Carlett House. He certainly had his priorities right! However the first recorded mention of the cricket team was in a surviving hand-written diary by village resident, John Worthington. John records a brief mention of a scratch game held on Saturday May 17th 1884 when a cricket match was played on the club ground in Carlett Park between the United Bachelors and the Consolidated Benedicts.
View more about the history of Eastham cricket.
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