Mike Etheridge (JRGS 1963-65) recalls our cricketing heritage:
This photograph shows the Croydon School
cricket team selected from various primary schools. It was taken in 1958
at Addiscombe Cricket Club, Sandilands, following the cricket final
between Whitehorse School - the victors - and South Norwood Primary.
Ex-Ruskin school captain Graham Fentiman can be seen at age about
11, centre front, and Ruskin's Bob Houghton at age 10 in the back row
second left, next to my twin brother (capped first left). The other
capped player (capped for batting performances) is John Wells, a
particularly gifted cricketer who died with about 30 other Landfranc
School pupils and two teachers in the Stavanger Air Disaster of 1962,
when their Vickers Viking charter aircraft hit a mountain in bad
weather. (The Streatham Colts wicket keeper Trevor Condell also died in
the crash).
The adult in the centre back row is Mr. Prichard of Duppas primary school.