Unfortunately, we have been sent news this evening of the passing of Sadfar Hamid ‘Jim’ Minhas who passed away two days ago at the age of 91. His funeral is tomorrow in Karachi. Jim was played in the league between 1955 and 1966. Scoring 3142 league runs and 343 league wickets. His son in law…
Shandana, the daughter of former Lowerhouse and Todmorden professional Jim Minhas will be in Burnley on July 29th . Shandana is very interested in talking to anyone who remembers Jim and would have some stories to recount of his time here . Jim talks very fondly to her about his time in our area…
Another find from the Burnley Express dug out by Anne Cochrane, a piece when Jim Minhas returned to the club to join a player’s reunion in 1960
As stated in a post previously this week, ex Lowerhouse Professional and amateur Jim Minhas’ son has been in touch to try to find some old photos of his Dad playing in England. Jim also had a stint at Todmorden as professional. Naturally, our archive team (notable Anne Cochrane) got to work and found quite…
As stated in a post previously this week, ex Lowerhouse Professional and amateur Jim Minhas’ son has been in touch to try to find some old photos of his Dad playing in England. Jim also had a stint at Todmorden as professional. Naturally, our archive team (notable Anne Cochrane) got to work and found quite…
By Paul Hargreaves After Lowerhouse’s ‘Game to Remember’ marvellous victory just two weeks previously we had another epic and pulsating match at home to Todmorden. I suspect, though, that this game will be better remembered east of Cornholme. It was a bumper crowd on a sunny day and ‘House fans must have had a ‘where…
Background and early years Tommy Shutt’s story starts with his parents, William Shutt and Sarah Holden living in Lowerhouse in the second half of the 19th century. People were coming into Lowerhouse village from all over to work in the textile industry, often living in overcrowded, insanitary conditions. The Shutts came from the Colne area…
By Paul Hargreaves There’s a saying nowadays that cricket’s a batters’ game. There’s probably a great deal of truth to that but it wasn’t always the case. There was a time when, unencumbered by overs quotas, most of the sport’s heroes were bowlers. This article will look at the dozen times in Lowerhouse history a…
The Civic Trust have posted another brilliant Lowerhouse featured article. You can check it out here. Anne has shared the photos (plus extras with us) I’ve added captions from the site where possible.
At Lowerhouse C.C. we are now in the no man’s land between seasons. Our Worsley and Holland Cup successes of 2018 are in the rear view mirror and our Ron Singleton Cup fixture against Walsden some way off. I thought it would be good to find a topic that might cause an interesting debate in…
LOWERHOUSE CC NEWS SPONSORED BY H.RIGG PROPERTIES Obituary The club were sorry to hear of the death of John Neville Hitchen. Known to all as Neville, he was a long-time member of the club having originally been a Colne player. Neville was an early neighbour of club stalwarts Malcolm and Barbara Blackhurst and all sat together…
We’ve been busy with our self proclaimed “Mission to Find Minhas!” The historians have been busy particularly Anne in finding more photos of Jim Minhas, we’ll be posting more photos in the coming days rather than all at once. Jim also played as professional at Todmorden and after a brief introduction from Stan, Andrew and…
This week, Shariq Minhas, son of former Pro Jim Minhas has been in touch regarding his father, stating he is very fond of his time at Lowerhouse but has little to no photographs of his time here. Our superstar historian Anne Cochrane managed to find a photo within 24 hours, which we have sent on….
Lowerhouse began its second century as a Cricket Club in the 1963 season. If the health of a club is judged by both its past silverware and its likely future prospects of silverware, then Lowerhouse were setting off their next 100 years limping and on life support. It wouldn’t be too harsh to think the…
In 1966 the Road Safety Act paved the way for the introduction of the breathalyser. The Soviets put the first satellite on the moon’s surface when Luna 9 touched down in this year. The main memory .though, from 1966 was the only time the country that invented football, won the World Cup. Whether it was…
Lowerhouse Cricket Club was formed in Queen Victoria’s Silver Jubilee Year of 1862. The provision of land for a permanent ground by the Dugdale Family (owners of the large cotton mill in Lowerhouse) seems to have acted as a catalyst which saw several local clubs merge to form the club we have today. These small…
By Paul Hargreaves Bacup Game Preview In 1953 the international news was dominated by the armistice in Korea and the death of a giant of twentieth century politics, Joseph Stalin. At home it was Coronation year and is remembered as a great sporting summer. Stanley Matthews got an F.A.Cup winners’ medal; Gordon Richards the veteran jockey…
We’ve delved into the archives to show those amateur batters who have scored over 500 runs in a season back to 1937. This page will be updated after each season.
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A new little project/task of ours, suggested by Frank Entwistle is to list our previous captains by year. We’ve also added a column of players who have also captained in that year. We’ve used Nigel Stockleys great Lancashireleague.com to glean the information, but have some blanks! After checking our own History Books, we’ve been able…
Thanks again to Paul Hargreaves who has put together a Hall of Fame for batsmen with over 3000 runs, bowlers with over 200 wickets and keepers with over 100 victims. Also thanks to Nigel Stockley from where Paul got this information with his brilliant website of historical data. Page last updated 03/09/2023