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advice is available from qualified coaches.
Separate coaching classes are available at the
school.
Format: At each meeting a competitive
tournament is organised with pairings arranged
to encourage the younger/weaker players. Entry
into external tournaments is encouraged.
Contacts: Julie Wigston (secretary) 01277
840673 / julie.wigston@hotmail.co.uk Michael
Cole (coach) 01277 840485.
Billericay Cricket Club
We as brothers joined the Club in 1994.
At the time the club occupied a lovely
ground near Billericay station.
Immediately we were made very welcome and
enjoyed training on a wonderful ground by
friendly and very experienced coaches. That year
was the final year at that ground before
Billericay moved to its current home at the Toby
Howe Ground, Blunts Wall Road. When the
ground was built it was as impressive as it is
now, after 13 years. With a large pavilion, indoor
nets with two lanes, outdoor nets with 3 lanes,
wonderful bar area and two superb pitches, it is
quite frankly the best cricketing facility that any
club could hope to boast.
We started playing cricket initially because we
wanted to emulate professional cricketers we
watched on the TV as youngsters. Over the
years, through much success in winning leagues
and cups in colt’s cricket, through to
representing the 1st team currently, and
winning the Division 3 league to gain
promotion, we feel we have achieved much, even
if we never made it to be professional cricketers
ourselves. However, aside from the enjoyment of
playing cricket itself, there is of course the social
side to playing the game. Recent tours to
Barbados, Ireland and Australia were brilliant,
and enjoyed by all. Everyone who plays for
Billericay C.C. will say that they take as much
pleasure from socialising in the bar after the
game and on tour, as they do from playing the
game itself. The friendships you gain and banter
you enjoy are as valuable to club cricket as
success and achievement on the field itself. We
have thoroughly enjoyed playing for Billericay
for the last 15 years or so, and will continue to
enjoy for many years to come.
The club currently has 6 teams playing on a
Saturday, 5 of which play league cricket, the 6th
team play friendlies. There is also a Sunday
league team. The club is always looking for new
members to join, who are always made very
welcome, no matter what level of ability or age.
For any information on Billericay Cricket Club go
to our website www.billericaycricket1875.co.uk
Gary & Stuart Hynes.
Billericay Lawn
Tennis Club
My Club
Ijoined Billericay
Tennis Club in 1962.
At that time we
played on 3 courts in
Mountnessing Road, with the Cricket Club as
our neighbours. I quickly became involved in
committee work and over the years served as
Secretary, Junior Coaching Officer, Ladies’
Captain, Social Secretary and Club Captain. I
have also sat on many sub-committees involved
in the future development of the club.
Following the death of our President, Stan
Hodges, I became the first lady to be elected to
that office in 1994.
Billericay has had a tennis club from about 1930
but it was in 1949 that the Western Road tennis
club held its first AGM. During those early years,
the club played on 2 grass courts in the garden of
a house in Western Road on the corner of
44 Billericay Town Guide