"The Cricket Inn" is a pub-restaurant located on the southern perimeter of the city of Sheffield - in a small suburb called Totley Bents. Passing by it is a pleasant feature of my regular suburban circuit - the circular walk I made up over thirty years ago. Usually it starts at Shotts Lane and half way round there's "The Cricket Inn" seen across a grassy recreation ground. Once it was just a drinks- led public house but it has kept pace with the times and transformed itself into a food-led gastro-pub.. It appeals to affluent inhabitants of the south west section of the city - Dore, Totley, Ecclesall, Fulwood, Nether Edge and Whirlow and it is busy every weekend.
Anyway, the purpose of this post is not to explain the game of cricket but simply to share with you six pictures of "The Cricket Inn" I have taken over the years...
Looks like a lovely spot for a pint and a nosh and perhaps a game of cricket if I knew the first thing about cricket!
ReplyDeleteBaseball-loving Americans wouldn't last five minutes on a cricket field. I would love to fire a bouncer at Trump's head. Cricket balls are very hard.
DeleteIn a parallel universe I held my wedding reception in The Cricket Inn.
ReplyDeleteMy bride was a wee lassie called Charlotte who had gold-red hair and who looked like Julia Foster, the girl who has Michael Caine's child in Alfie.
You have set something going here, Neil.
Past life regression is one thing, but what of the life we never had ?
Didn't Bradford-born J.B. Priestley write a play about it ?
Do you mean, "I Have Been Here Before"?
DeleteI seem to recall a television version of I Have Been Here Before.
DeleteAnthony Valentine (1939-2015) was brilliant in the central role.
Is the play about eternal recurrence, and breaking free of it ?
Valentine said, *This has never happened before* - his breaking free.
Priestley the Great War veteran wrote enigmatic non-fiction.
The Long High Wall and Rain Upon Godshill.
Barstow drove me around Halifax talking about Priestley's play They Came to a City which he admired for its vision of the just society.
I bought the DVD of the television version of An Inspector Calls.
The young woman in the central role was outstanding.
I love those daisies!
ReplyDeleteI could sit there and make you a daisy chain Margaret.
DeleteIt is good to see lots of outdoor seating in the last couple of photos. The lack of vegetation in the first photo is striking.
ReplyDeleteThere is vegetation but the picture is black and white - hence no green!
DeleteA lifetime ago when I was a wee lass I spent a year at boarding school in West Sussex and spent my weekends off and holidays with grandparents in a village close by and with godparents who had a pub in Dorset. Your photos have brought back some wonderful memories. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteNo wonder you seem so sophisticated! Part of your education happened in England.
DeleteVery pleasant place for cricket.
ReplyDeleteI would like to bowl at you Red.
DeleteIt's a beautiful old building. I love the stonework.
ReplyDeleteRound here we are blind to the stonework because there is so much of it.
DeleteIt looks like it was once someone's Country Manor, a "summer place" for getting away from the city in the heat of July.
ReplyDeleteI bet there was a time when it wasn't a pub but a map made in 1885 shows it as an "Inn".
DeleteIt does look very appealing. Have you visited for food/drink ?
ReplyDeleteIt must be ten years since I last went in "The Cricket Inn".
DeleteWas the world really black and white or monochrome in 1957?
ReplyDeleteI was four at the time so I can't really remember but the few memories I have got are all in technicolour.
DeleteLooks like a great place for a warm spring afternoon.
ReplyDeleteWe are a long way from that here Travel.
DeleteThere is a cricket field near my home and I have watched teams practicing there but have never figured it out. They sure can whip the ball at the batter, tho!
ReplyDeleteWhen I was fourteen a cricket ball hit me in the face at high speed. It changed my life.
DeleteI like the one with the daisies!
ReplyDeleteWell there's a surprise!
DeleteThey are all beautiful pictures. I honestly can't say which is my favorite. Maybe the first one.....no, maybe the one with the flowers in the field......no, maybe the one with the boys playing football, ....... no, maybe.....
ReplyDeleteYou are so decisive!
DeleteI've always thought it would be quite a satisfying life to just have spent it running some backwater places like the Cricket Inn. You know everyone by name and know the building by heart.
ReplyDeleteThat does have some appeal.
DeleteA beautiful spot, and you captured it in various moods. The daisies are pretty, but the mellow golden light in the next-to-last picture and the view through the gate are special, too.
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