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His Wicket, Wicket Ways

27 Oct

It’s Just Not Cricket that We Don’t Know More About Errol’s Cricket History. From Hobart to Sydney to England to Hollywood – Let’s See How Much of It We Can Discover & Document! He Surely Played in His Hobart & Sydney School Days. In London as a kid, too. Northampton? How About in New Guinea? Then at Griffith Park and Beyond with the Expats of England in Hollywood Cricket Club.

Here’s the HCC in Vancouver: Saturday, July 4, 1936:

— Tim

 
 
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10 years ago

Terrific thread Tim & the title is very clever. :)

I wonder when & where this photo of Errol signing a cricket ball was taken? Probably after one of the HCC matches?

[img]http://i61.tinypic.com/14m3vi0.jpg[/img]

10 years ago
Reply to  Gentleman Tim

Thanks Tim! I unfortunately cannot see the photo (or any others on the blog as of yesterday) just the link addresses? : /

David DeWitt
10 years ago
Reply to  Lollie

The bottom of the photo tells us where and when this photo was taken. I have been to this spot and what you can’t see is an open breezeway behind the members leading to a small racetrack, and beyond this lay the playing fields. Errol stayed at the Silvia Hotel close to Stanley Park, and ironically, within walking distance of 1310 Burnaby St. where Flynn suffered his fatal heart attack years later.

10 years ago
Reply to  David DeWitt

Why can’t I see any of the photos anymore on all the threads? I can only see the link addresses now,yet a couple of days ago all the pictures were there?

10 years ago
Reply to  Gentleman Tim

Thanks Tim,that really is an interesting article. :)

Yes it’s weird about the pictures,it was fine a couple of days ago,but now pretty much all the photos in all the threads are just addresses.Ugh!

10 years ago
Reply to  Lollie

Tim I found a couple of little articles here mentioning Errol & cricket. :)

www.theroar.com…

www.smh.com…

David DeWitt
10 years ago
Reply to  Lollie

Hmm, I checked Safari, Chrome and Firefox and all images are showing up normally. In adfition, Zacal commented on the photo Delvan posted, so he sees images in his browser. What browsers are you using if you can’t see images?

Also you should only see the “Choose file” button now for adding images to your comments. There was a conflict with the Add Images plugin so I deactivated it. Lollie and Tim, do you see the Choose file button below the comment window?

Try clearing your cache.

David DeWitt
10 years ago
Reply to  Gentleman Tim

Tim, do you see the Choose Image button under the comment window? Also, what browser does your phone use to reach Google? Not sure what your browser is? Try this site:

www.whatismybrowser.com…

You seem to have gotten the image to work in this comment. Can you see it, or not? What do you see exactly?

David DeWitt
10 years ago
Reply to  Gentleman Tim

Tim, do you see the Choose file button, and are you able to use it? What browser are you using?

David DeWitt
10 years ago
Reply to  Gentleman Tim

Try this code instead. I’m using it to restore images on another long thread:

img src=”http://www.pictureshowman.com/images/articles/Articles_graphics/Aubrey_Smith/Aubrey_Smith_SussexCCC.jpg”

Just add the < and > marks to hide the code at the front and end of the coding.

David DeWitt
10 years ago
Reply to  Gentleman Tim

Tim, I looked your comment in the admin view and there was nothing in the comment window, no text, or coding. You need text to go with the image coding, I think.

David DeWitt
10 years ago
Reply to  Lollie

Lollie, do you see the Choose file button below the commet window? What browser are you using? Have you cleared your cache?

10 years ago

David Niven, Cary Grant and C.Aubrey Smith- all of Errol`s old sports were there.

10 years ago
Reply to  Gentleman Tim

Crant was too grand for the small picture. He probably was attending to Barbara in a nearby hut-ton. Anyways here an oldtimers story from the blog on the same top-ic

Flynn in Vancouver 1936—Cricket, anyone?

David DeWitt
10 years ago

Tim, the only thing you forgot were the two marks that hide the code and make it active. You need one < mark in front of the image code, and one > mark at the end. See the amended code below:

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