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First-class Cricketers from Rossall School: The Victorian Era

Gerry Wolstenholme

Published in 2012 by Red Rose Books. (ISBN 9780957354005)

Original stiffened wrappers.

iv + 56 pages, illustrated.

Minor wear, no inscriptions, staples rusty, overall a good copy of an out-of-print title.

UK post free only, please e-mail for overseas postage charges

First-class Cricketers from Rossall School: The Victorian Era

Gerry Wolstenholme

Published in 2012 by Red Rose Books. (ISBN 9780957354005)

Original stiffened wrappers.

iv + 56 pages, illustrated.

Minor wear, no inscriptions, staples rusty, overall a good copy of an out-of-print title.

Limited edition number 24 of 100 copies, signed and numbered by Gerry Wolstenholme.

'Rossall School on the north west coast of Lancashire opened in August 1844 with 70 boys and a headmaster, Dr John Woolley, who was a keen sportsman and who, in 1845 approved the formation of a cricket club. This was to be the beginning of a heritage that spawned a number of first-class cricketers, many of whom came to the fore in the Victorian era when Alfred Clarke and H H Stephenson, both of the All England XI, were coaches at the school. William Wingfield was the first Old Rossallian to play first-class cricket and he was quickly followed by such as Lancashire's Rowley brothers, Alexander and Edmund...'