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Welcome to the Fives Cricket Club website
Fives CC are a small but very friendly cricket club based very close to Oakwood tube station.
Membership details Membership / match fees
We share with Old Minch CC (http://www.oldminchendenians.org.uk/)
We play friendly matches only on Sunday's and are always on the look out for new players.
We play some midweek games over the season and tour to different places one week in the summer and in 2008 started weekly outdoor practice one evening a week.
In the winter we play in the Waltham Abbey indoor six a side cricke t tournament.
Fives CC 1941- present
Thoughts from one of the founder's Fives CC:
I have found some info on your club at last. My name is Brian Watling and I have just read Mike Smith's contribution to your website, I new Mike as a great batsman & bowler in the fifties as on occasions I played for the club when they were short. My father, Frank Watling founded the club at Hazelwood Lane Sports Ground at the beginning of the last war. Some of the names I can remember are, Ernie Simpson (Captain) Leo Whalen, Cyril Wilkins, Mike Smith, Graham Rapley, Len Colburne who only had one arm and could wield a bat as well as any man and was also a good bowler, Dennis Taylor, our resident umpire was Harold Pegden a survivor of Dunkirk. I could go on & on and wonder whether you still have any of the old score books used in the fifties? At present I am living in the South of France but hope to get back to the UK in the near future and would love to see the old club playing again. Yours Sincerely,
B Watling"
Click on link for a view from another former player:
With the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, the country had been divided into different Civil Defence Zones.
The North London area in which Palmers Green was situated was designated
as F5 and the Head Quarters was at the Hazelwood Lane sports ground,
where a concrete shelter was built and where all the local wardens were based.
During the days of the Blitz there was obviously not much time for relaxing,
but when things eased off a bit,
the members would indulge in sports and pastimes to while away the hours.
So in 1941, it was decided to form a club on a proper basis and what better than Fives (F5).
So was born the Fives Sports and Social Club.
The club was mainly tennis and social in those days, with cricket just a small section of the club.
By 1960 the club had over 100 members, of which 14 made up the cricket section.
There were 57 tennis members, 15 table tennis members and 25 social members.
A great change took place in season 1965-66.
With the break up of the tennis section due to lack of interest, the cricket section decided to go alone.
Thus was born Fives Cricket Club.
Consequently another momentous change for season 1972-73,
when Royal Northern Hospital amalgamated with Fives to remain as Fives Cricket Club.
Until 1972 we only had a Sunday Team. The ground for both Saturday and Sunday was Hazelwood Lane.
