forevablue, on 19 August 2017 - 09:34 AM, said:
Hi Nigel, this is fantastic news. All of us of that era have so many wonderful memories of Ernie and the great teams that he played in so good luck with sorting out what I'm sure will be an overwhelming response to your request.
Regarding the Education Department comments I know someone who still goes in the Thorntree Inn at Matlock who was either Ernie's manager back in the day or certainly a senior figure who knew him at the time. I'll see if he has any interesting tales to tell.
Some good players have played in those inter-departmental games with me definitely not being one of them! I played in Carl Swan's team (his Dad was Peter of course) when I worked at Clay Cross and once in a cricket match similarly organised on Matlock's ground was a player who had played second tier in Australia; fortunately it was 35 and out and no-one got hurt trying to stop any of his strikes as most of them ended up over the road in Matlock park.
Happy days, Paul.
Regarding the Education Department comments I know someone who still goes in the Thorntree Inn at Matlock who was either Ernie's manager back in the day or certainly a senior figure who knew him at the time. I'll see if he has any interesting tales to tell.
Some good players have played in those inter-departmental games with me definitely not being one of them! I played in Carl Swan's team (his Dad was Peter of course) when I worked at Clay Cross and once in a cricket match similarly organised on Matlock's ground was a player who had played second tier in Australia; fortunately it was 35 and out and no-one got hurt trying to stop any of his strikes as most of them ended up over the road in Matlock park.
Happy days, Paul.
Thanks Paul.
Any help or information about Ernie's time at County Offices would be gratefully appreciated.
Regards Nigel.