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Every more you cherish the 
earth, and I need you to know 

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when your eyes sing. 
Young far the Lord fall dead. 

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Far the door fall dead. 
Ken Shopcott is one of Burnley 

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Cricket Club's best known fans, 
but I'm sure he'll be the first 

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to admit he does have an 
affinity and a bit of a soft 

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spot for the lower house as 
well. 

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Known to everybody who's watched
Lancashire League cricket, Ken's

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now going to share a few of his 
lower house memories with us. 

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One of my earlier recollections 
of local Derby matches, Edward 

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was at lower house in 1958 in a 
Worsley Cup game. 

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The rules of that time state a 
bit, if a team not 130 for less 

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than three wickets they had to 
suspend their innings. 

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Lord House battered first and 
knocked 130 for two and when 

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they suspended their innings 
little did they imagine the 

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carnage that that was to follow.
That same afternoon and free sun

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drenched evenings, Burnley and 
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Indian professional Collie Smith
amassed a colossal total of more

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than 530 runs for the loss of 
nine wickets before declaring 

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Collie Smith's innings with the 
highest and almost certainly the

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greatest innings in Lancashire 
League history. 306 not out. 

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He couldn't take sixes at Law 
House in those days, even if the

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ball went as far as Rose Grove 
railway station, which it nearly

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did on some occasions. 
Smith was awesome and I as a 

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young 12 year old, along with 
Law House supporter David 

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Ashworth were on full time duty 
climbing out of the ground to 

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throw the lost balls back. 
David and I are still supporting

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our respective teams and he 
constantly reminds me that 

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Burnley unnecessarily ground the
Law House noses into the dust. 

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When Loras resumed their innings
were not surprisingly were all 

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out for little more than two 
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A thoroughly demoralised outfit.
What a pity Collie Smith was to 

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die in a car crash a few months 
later. 

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However, times have changed. 
Loras have finished above 

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Burnley in the league now for 
the last 10 seasons. 

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The fiercely competitive Derby 
games, the wonderful banter 

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between supporters have 
contributed immensely to my 

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enjoyment of watching the 
Lancashire League. 

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Although I am a Burnley 
supporter, Loras Cricket Club 

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means a lot to me and I'm going 
to do my utmost about lower 

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house and to continue my visits 
to bare ground with a couple of 

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pints on the lower house steps 
and the running battles between 

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myself and Brian Moorhouse and 
Co are to me the best value 

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entertainment in the world. 
Among our House's many 

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supporters is local Independent 
councillor Harry Brooks. 

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Harry's been watching Lancashire
League cricket for several 

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decades now and has many, many 
memories. 

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Would you like to share some of 
your memories of Lower House 

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with us? 
Well, there's there's really so 

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much Edward, but I think what 
stands out most vividly in my 

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memory is the end of the 1991 
season. 

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Manoj Prabhakar, a professional,
was a a very gifted Indian test 

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all rinder who hadn't really 
delivered his potential and 

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hadn't fitted him well in the 
dressing room. 

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We went to this point when he 
cried off for the last half 

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dozen games claiming injury, but
I was left with the job of 

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finding substitute professionals
for the rest of the season. 

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As it turned out we we had a 
great run, winning five of those

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last six games and and two of 
them I'll never forget. 

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Going in reverse order, we had 
David Caple, the Northampton 

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England all rounder for the last
game of the season at Nelson and

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they've been Championship 
contenders for most of the 

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season and they destroyed us at 
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summer. 
Now capable of Caple had been 

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spoken of not long before as the
natural successor to Ian Bertham

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and he certainly didn't 
disappoint us. 

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Nelson could only muster 139 for
eight and Keppel took five for 

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46, including the wicket of 
Colin Heap, the Nelson opener, 

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who was caught at slip off his 
glove and for good measure taken

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off to hospital with a broken 
hand. 

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When we battered Keppel went in 
at 11 for three and plastered 

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the Nelson bowlers including Joe
Scuderry all over Sea Deal for a

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brilliant quick fire 78. 
We won by 6 wickets and to 

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Capitol Cable a real gent gave 
all his 50 LB collection to the 

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amateurs to celebrate the 
victory with. 

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It was a glorious end to the 
season and the the other game 

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was a win against a very strong 
E lengths side at lower house a 

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couple of weeks before and it 
featured what could have been 

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perhaps the best ever all round 
performance for lower house. 

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The sub pro was Robert Haynes, a
giant young Jamaican who was 

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playing for Morecambe in the 
Northern League. 

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East length clocked up 189 and 
Haines stuck 7 for 59 with his 

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leg spinners and had a share in 
three run out victims so he he 

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was involved in every wicket. 
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slow and when Haines went in 
with three wickets down we still

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needed 104 runs from 19 overs. 
He gave the best display of 

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clean hitting I've ever seen and
we went with eight overs to 

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spare. 
Robert made 91 nut out and 

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finished the game with a huge 
six off pole rifle who's been 

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such a success for Australia in 
international cricket. 

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Haines strolled off in the 
sunshine as though he'd just 

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been for a gentle afternoon walk
with the lawyer supporters 

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chanting Hero and sign him on. 
Unfortunately we didn't, but 

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those who were there that day 
will, I'm sure, never forget his

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performance. 
There was a double irony about 

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it all. 
Haynes had subbed proof for East

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lengths in the Wellesley Cup 
final a couple of weeks before 

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and he'd had a poor game as they
lost to Enfield. 

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And he wouldn't have played at 
all against E lengths if I'd 

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managed to fix up Sachin 
Tendulkar, who was on holiday in

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Lancashire at the time, as our 
substitute professional. 

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Among the House Cricket Club's 
more colourful supporters is 

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Brian Moorhouse. 
Anyone who's ever been to a game

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at the West End Ground will 
certainly know who Brian is. 

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He certainly makes his presence 
felt while the House are 

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playing. 
Over the years he's collected 

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many happy memories of watching 
the team in action and I'm sure 

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he'll entertain us all by 
telling us them now. 

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Now memories and memories all to
be treasured. 

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Our favourable memory was at the
end of the season we went on a 

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Cricket Club day out to 
Blackpool. 

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End of season trip, Alan. 
Unknown to me, there was another

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trip from Berkeley from the post
office and it's all right. 

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Good day out, really good day 
out. 

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Plenty of beer, plenty of 
singing. 

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Making our way back to Princess 
Suites car, Princess Street car 

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park and underage the railway 
bridge. 

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There's this body lead in the 
gutter. 

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I got nearer to it and I said to
Fred Betts. 

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I said that looks a bit like 
Ronnie Berry. 

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So we turned him over and Ronnie
Berry was a post office worker 

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and he was been on the post 
office trip. 

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So we picked him up. 
I said come on, we'll take him 

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back, put him on his coach. 
We got to the coach station, 

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only our coach on. 
So I said to Fred. 

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I said come on, let's get him on
our bus, I'll take him home. 

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He only lives around the corner 
from me so I'll ripped him off 

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the bus. 
So long come round, still flat 

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out full a beer. 
Walked him up Rosedale Ave Got 

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to his cottage door, went 
knocked on the door. 

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No light. 3:00 in the morning, 
no light whatsoever. 

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No answer. 
Banged and banged and banged 

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again. 
Went through his pocket looking 

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for his household key. 
Could not find one. 

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All of a sudden, the lady next 
door in the next cottage, 

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bedroom window open. 
What's going on down there? 

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Oh, I said hello, Missus Robson,
I said I just brought Bonnie 

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back from from Blackpool. 
I said I can't get in, can't get

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him in, so you won't be able to 
do. 

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He went with his mother this 
morning for a week.