Aldworth's place in history
Interesting to see that The World Cup's leading runscorer Claire Taylor attributes part of her success to the distraction of playing the violin for Aldworth's Philharmonic Orchestra. Now Aldworth is a village well known to most fellow burblers and if you visit its ground on Google's satellite photo you can actually see players on the pitch (not in position so probably just about to start play). I haven't found any other pitch with players on it yet.
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There is a ground in St Albans - just north-east of the train station - that has players in position on.
Hello there!
You've made a common but entirely forgiveable error. The orchestra is neither based in nor named after the village. It's named after Richard Aldworth, the founder of Reading Blue Coat School, where APO rehearses. We've got a lovely concert on this Saturday, if you're interested. Claire obviously won't be playing having been somewhat busy with other things (and I might add we're very proud of her), but you're all welcome anyway! Check out www.aldworthphilharmonic.org.uk for details.
I completely agree, by the way, that Aldworth is a lovely village. Would love to play there, sometime.
Best wishes,
Andrew Taylor
Conductor of the Aldworth Philharmonic
Oops.(The error is even worse since I grew up in Cold Ash which is no great distance from Reading or Aldworth).
But good luck on Saturday and keep following the blog !
I think it's brilliant that Cricket Burbler's are looking at Google to look for pitches with cricketers on!!! The amount of research done just to keep the readers of this blog fully informed really is unlimited!
Curiously, though three of the above posters share a common cricket club, none of them have noticed that their own home ground features two games of cricket in progress on Google earth!
The second pitch sees mid-off and mid-on posted on the boundary, while the men saving one 'on the 45' behind square perhaps indicate a spinner. Mr Davis, perhaps?
Meanwhile the first pitch features an attacking field, with a catching cordon, and, intriguingly, both a short- and a deep-fine-leg. The slips are too far back to be Muttley bowling - I can only presume it's me...
Next mission: a google image of the Aldworth Philharmonic in concert!
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=croxley+green&sll=51.513112,-1.198386&sspn=0.000376,0.000864&ie=UTF8&ll=51.655768,-0.442141&spn=0.002995,0.006909&t=h&z=17
Sadly the covers were on by the time the Streetview car came round though! My bowling had obviously induced an early declaration.
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=croxley+green&sll=51.513112,-1.198386&sspn=0.000376,0.000864&ie=UTF8&ll=51.655506,-0.445204&spn=0.002689,0.013819&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=51.656102,-0.440237&panoid=lT6fAdQyc104iDPicpVfZQ&cbp=12,263.94134849712214,,3,3.986801242236023
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