Kirkstall Educational Cricket Club A POTTED HISTORY Date or National event Yorkshire event / Leeds Club history date band event/Cricket event Victorian period: 1837 – 1901 1853 Victoria is Queen. Sir Titus Salt builds Salts A group of young men from a club George Hamilton Mill, a textile mill, in called the Kirkstall Educational Gordon is the Saltaire near Bradford. It Society decide to start a cricket club. Prime Minister. opens on his 50th birthday. They play at Kirkstall Abbey fields. The world’s first The team is made up of teachers and public aquarium students. opens in London Zoo. 1854-1856 The Crimean War fought by Britain and France against Russia. 1854 A cholera epidemic leads to demands for a clean water supply and proper sewage systems in the big cities. 1856 Ben Witham, known as ‘Spank’, the team’s star player, introduces the round-arm method of bowling the ball. 1857 The Club move to their present ground, which was then part of the Kirkstall Grange Estate. The owner of the land, William Beckett, allows the Club to use the field virtually rent free providing the Club keeps the word ‘Educational’ in their name. Kirkstall Educational Cricket Club Date or National event Yorkshire event / Leeds Club history date band event/Cricket event 1858 Leeds Town Hall is built. 1870 There are enough teams in the local area to play weekly matches. 1872 The first FA cup Leeds Public Library and final football Roundhay Park open. match is played at The Oval in London. 1878 Grand Theatre is built. William Schofield is allowed “the eatage of the grass in the Cricket Field, and to turn his own working horses and cattle, with the exception of strange horses such as are calculated to get over the fence of the levelled part, or fat bullocks, to keep the said grass well eaten off”. For this arrangement, Mr Schofield pays £9 per year – the equivalent of about £600 today. 1878 Thorntons Arcade opens. 1880 The Education Act makes schooling compulsory for all children between 5 and 10. 1884 Marks & Spencers open their first penny arcade in Leeds. 1885 City Varieties Music Hall is built in Leeds. 1887 Become a founding member of the Leeds Second Class League. Kirkstall Educational Cricket Club Date or National event Yorkshire event / Leeds Club history date band event/Cricket event 1891 Free education for every child aged 5-13. 1893 Become a founding member of the Leeds Second Class League. 1894 Electric trams replace horse drawn carriages. 1897 The Club moves to playing in the Yorkshire Central League. 1898 Grand Arcade and Victoria Arcade open. 1899 It becomes compulsory for Leeds houses to be connected to a sewer. Edwardian period: 1901 - 1910 1901 Queen Victoria dies. Her son, Edward VII, becomes King. 1904 Leeds City Football Club is formed. 1904 Leeds University is founded. 1905 The first cinema is built in Leeds. Apr 1908 Olympic Games open at White City in London. May 1910 Edward VII dies and is succeeded by George V. 15 Apr The Titanic ocean 1912 liner sinks with the loss of 1,503 lives. Kirkstall Educational Cricket Club Date or National event Yorkshire event / Leeds Club history date band event/Cricket event 4 Jun 1913 Suffragette Emily Davison is killed by the King's horse. First World War: 1914 – 1918 28 Jun Archduke Franz 1914 Ferdinand is assassinated in Sarajevo. 4 Aug 1914 Britain declares The Club play friendly matches war on Germany during the war. in response to the invasion of Belgium. 16 Dec German Imperial Navy 1914 attack Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby. 137 people die and 455 are injured. 6 Jun 1915 German Zeppelin air raid on Hull. 1916 1st Jul - 18 Nov: 5th Dec: Major disaster at Battle of the Barnbow munitions factory. Somme. The explosion kills 35 of the women workers. 1918 George Ellison from Leeds is the last British soldier killed in the First World War. 11 Nov Germany sign 1918 the Armistice ending the First World War. 1918 Women over the age of 30 and who own property are given the right to vote for the first time. Kirkstall Educational Cricket Club Date or National event Yorkshire event / Leeds Club history date band event/Cricket event 1918 Spanish Spanish influenza epidemic influenza strikes and by 1919 kills spreads across 1,800 Leeds people. the world killing an estimated 50 million people. Inter war period: 1919 - 1938 1922 Howard Carter Win the Yorkshire Central League discovers Championship. Tutankhamun’s tomb in Egypt. 1924 Win the Leeds Evening League, defeating a strong team from Leeds. 1925 The Club joins the Yorkshire [cricket] Council. 1927 Bill Bowes (1908-1987) begins his cricketing career at Kirkstall, aged 18. He later plays for Yorkshire and the Marylebone Cricket Club. 1928 Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin. 1929 The Club joins the Leeds League, with 6 other clubs, after two previous unsuccessful attempts. 1930 George V dies and is succeeded by Edward VIII. 1936 Edward VIII abdicates in order to marry Wallace Simpson. 1937 George VI, Edward VIII's younger brother, the Duke of York, is crowned King. Kirkstall Educational Cricket Club Date or National event Yorkshire event / Leeds Club history date band event/Cricket event 1937 The famous aviator Amelia Earhart (1897-declared dead 1939) disappears over the Atlantic Ocean. She and her plane are never found. Second World War: 1939 – 1945 3 Sept 1939 Britain declares war on Germany. Sept 1940 Battle of Britain. 1941 The worst air raid on Leeds kills 60 people. 8 May 1945 Victory in Europe Day. 15 Aug Victory over The Jack Appleyard’s XI 1945 Japan Day. play at Roundhay Park during World War Two. Post war period: 1946 – 1999 1946 Kirkstall tie with Hunslet in the Hepworth Cup tie. 1948 The National Health Service is created. 1948 The Olympic Games take place in London. 1952 George VI dies. Elizabeth II becomes Queen. Kirkstall Educational Cricket Club Date or National event Yorkshire event / Leeds Club history date band event/Cricket event 1958 The Jinnah Mosque is the first mosque to open in Leeds. 1960s Jim Love (b.1955) is a prominent Junior player. He goes on to play cricket for Yorkshire and England and work for Yorkshire Cricket. 1966 England win the World Cup. 1968 Yorkshire Television opens studios on Kirkstall Road. BBC Radio Leeds begins broadcasting. 1969 The first Hindu temple opens on Alexandra Road. 1970 Leeds Polytechnic forms. 1971 Britain changes from pounds, shillings and pence to the decimal currency system. 1979 Margaret Thatcher becomes Britain’s first woman Prime Minister. 1980 A new clubhouse is built, with dressing rooms and showers. 1981 Riots in Chapeltown. 1982 April – June: The Falklands War. Kirkstall Educational Cricket Club Date or National event Yorkshire event / Leeds Club history date band event/Cricket event 1984 Miner’s ke over pit closures. 1989 Tim Berners-Lee invents the World Wide Web. 1991 The First Gulf War. 1992 The Channel Tunnel opens. 1999 The Club play their last season in the Leeds League. The first XI win the Division One and reach the final of The Hepworth Cup. 21st century: 2000 – present 2000 Millenium Crowned champions of Division C in celebrations take the Airedale and Wharfdale Senior place across the Cricket League. world. 2001 9/11 - Terrorists crash two planes into the World Trade Center towers in New York. 2003 The Second Gulf Celebrate 150th anniversary of the War. Club. 2006 Mohammed Iqbal becomes The 1st XI win the Division 1 the first Muslim Lord Championship for the first time. Mayor. The club enjoys a sensational season, 2008 winning the Waddilove Cup and the Birtwhistle Cup. 2012 Olympic Games are held in London. Kirkstall Educational Cricket Club Date or National event Yorkshire event / Leeds Club history date band event/Cricket event 2020 Leeds United Football Club promoted to the Premier League. 2020 Coronavirus March - Leeds, along with spreads across the rest of the UK, goes into the world. Lockdown to help prevent the spread of Coronavirus..