THERE were plenty of spectators at the Racecourse when the Radcliffe Cricket Club's newly-terraced Marsden enclosure was opened fifty years ago this week (June 10).
The visitors were watching Radcliffe Cricket Club's match against Oldham, and saw the home team emerge victorious. Named after the late Jerry Marsden, who had been a club stalwart for many years, the stand provided accommodation that equalled or surpassed any in the Central Lancashire League.
On the day, the sun shone "with bright encouragement" and the turnstiles were kept twirling with the largest gate of the season. However, fans had little to be excited about.
The occasion was described by the Radcliffe Times as: "One of those days when the end of the game is revealed long before the last ball is bowled, or the last strike made, and the game ran its course with the prefixed destination of a tram clanking on to the depot."
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