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or e-mail us at: admin@pottersbarcc.co.uk During the summer the club has matches at home most weekends both Saturday and Sunday. If you are passing come in and watch for a while, chat with members  or apply for membership

The clubhouse Phone Number is: 01707 654801 (which does have an answerphone)

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A Short History. by Richard West PBCC Chairman 2004

 Cricket was first played in Potters Bar as part of the life of the village  and, as with most village institutions, it is difficult to ascertain precisely when the inhabitants decided to meet at regular intervals to take part in this historic game. However it is certain that organized cricket was being played at Potters Bar in 1862, with the result that all subsequent Annual General Meetings of the club have been numbered from that date.

In the early 1860's, cricket matches were played once a month in a field known as Cow Pasture that lay between the present Cotton Road and Chace Lane. No accounts of these matches are available, but the wearing of top hats was apparently obligatory! By 1870, the club was flourishing and the ground was in Mutton Lane, in a field that was subsequently used exclusively used for football.

The rules of the club were first laid down in 1871, at the instigation of the Rev.H.G.Watkins, the first vicar of Potters Bar and one of the oldest recorded Presidents of Potters Bar Cricket Club. The subscription for a playing member was agreed at 8d per month or 4/-for the season, with all matches being played on Wednesdays or Saturdays beginning at "4 o'clock in the afternoon punctually," presumably after work for the day had been completed. Any member found guilty of objectionable language or conduct on the field was liable to expulsion. By the end of that season, the club had 53 members and a healthy cash surplus over expenditure of £22-17-9d, albeit this was apparently not enough to approve the expenditure of £12 on the leveling of 50 sq.yds of the ground!  READ MORE....

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