Updates

We are extremely grateful to families of former players, who get in touch with us here at HCH, when they want to donate ephemera to the Archive Collection which we own here at the Utilita Bowl. Glen Williams recently drove west to visit the Pothecary family, who have very kindly donated Sam's cap, which was awarded way back in 1927. It now sits proudly with Championship Winning Pennants and Trophies, balls, medals, signed photos and bats on the far right-hand wall of the Archive Room.

Glen Williams and Ray Stubbington have also set about the task in recent weeks of removing pictures from old frames and then storing them in newly-acquired cabinets - which also needed to be collected, re-assembled and brought up to the Archive Room. These pictures include a number which used to hang in the Pavilion at Northlands Road. Work continues apace, meanwhile, to catalogue every artefact in the collection by the end of this year. We will then have comprehensive asset lists, with accompanying photos of everything in our current collection, hoepfully to be made available for all our loyal HCH Supporters to access on request in 2025.

We spent a full day in March 2024 in the Archive Room cataloguing and photographing all the ties in the collection. Given we do not have the space to display everything in our collection in the Archive Room, we are listing all the items in each collection and then storing them. The associated links in these spreadsheets will then take you to the photograph, in this case of each and every tie in the collection. Our aim is to try and and make all these photographs available - by the end of 2025 - to those who will not be able to visit the Archive Room in person, but who are generally interested in particular items of memorabilia associated with Hampshire Cricket. 

Our Tie Collection numbers over 100 and we are constantly on the lookout for new acquisitions to our collection. They celebrate many of the trophies won over the past 50 years by Hampshire, as well as marking many of the Benefit Years for individual players. If you have any older ties produced by (or linked to) the Club which are spare, please contact us in the Archive Room at hantscccheritage@gmail.com to let us know. Conversely, we have a large number of spares which will be on sale at our two Book Sales this summer in May and August in the Club Shop.