Help create club history for 150th year

To celebrate our 150th anniversary Merstham Cricket club would like to collect memories from its members, past and present.
There are now two albums - one at Quality Street and one travelling with me - for you to write about your involvement with the club. Alternatively, you could email me your memories, including words and pictures. We might even get them up on the website!
A ‘100 years of cricket’ booklet (now hanging framed on the wall) was published in 1964, but this project is planned as a more detailed snapshot of history, for people to look back at in, for example, another 50 years.

We would welcome your favourite memories from down the years of how you and your family have been involved. Perhaps your father or grandfather played here. Perhaps you played junior and senior cricket.

Please write something about your time at the club, long or short. Feel free to go away and think about it and bring back documents and pictures of players, teams and activities past. If you have pictures of memorabilia such as signed bats, hats and shirts, please feel free to include these too.

Everyone is welcome to contribute – junior players, senior players, parents, retired players, social members or tea 'ladies' (or men, who we know supply this service too!).

Please detail your involvement. Begin with your name and the year you started playing and let the memories flow! Please include which teams you have played for within the club and if you have served as an officer, captain or coach, the dates if you can remember.

Details could include your favourite moments on the field, who you played with, which of your peers went on to play for the county or elsewhere or simply describe how much the facilities and club have changed.

Pack your tales with facts - and add in a little colour about how much you have enjoyed playing at Merstham CC.

Please leave your contact details tucked in with your contribution - our 150th anniversary celebrations are attracting interest from local media (don't worry, we will liaise with you over this!). We also plan to put the memory book on display at our anniversary dinner - where we shall try to collect more memories.

Ian Lamont
Information manager 
Merstham Cricket Club