Grass Roots

Astwood Bank cricket team prepare for the pinnacle of the village game with a trip to the home of English cricket.

A sport for all seasons; Anglia TV report from St. Ives, Cambridgeshire on indoor cricket with Eaton Socon Cricket Side.

The show is inaugurated in Llandrindod by various VIPs and a group of Africans are welcomed to this 3-day celebration of rural life in Wales.

Everyone's having a great time at Cuckfield Park in this charming film from 1929 - after the big match - everyone gets their own turn at the stumps

The arrival of summer means it's time for grown men to dress as ladies and play some raucous cricket - as Eric Norman's holiday camp film shows

The Surrey Fire Brigade's cricket team delight their guests with a cricket match followed by an awards ceremony in this film from 1953

Cyril Hayworth's jolly film shows cubs, scouts and adults playing games of cricket where enthusiasm and fun count for more than the rules

Bob Burns' delightful film captures village cricket at its best - with a lovely lunch, beer on tap and a snooze in a deckchair

Bob Burns' charming film captures another day's cricket at his local club - and while the men are at play their wives provide the lunch

The difficulties of the non-professional filming a cricket match are evident in this film, as the ball gets wacked hither and thither.

Enjoy this barnstorming cricket tour around Devon with the Old Collegians - complete with pipes, stripey blazers and old Bertie's party trick

There as much going on off the pitch as there is on in this remarkable film which features summer fashions, stripey blazers and pipes aplenty

A youth competition showcases young talent at Sherborne

The Rothmans Cricket Cup Final is a Devon Affair

All family members are out for this game of friendly cricket; man, woman and boy

Helston Cricket Club play a match in the Cornish League

Brighton Council challenges Laughton House to a cricket match, in Winston Robinson's unique film made only weeks after VE Day

This nostalgic film from Jack Francis captures the essence of village cricket as Colden Common battles it out with Twyford in 1955

Herne Hill Cricket Club enjoys a hectic month of matches and socialising in this marvellous film record of their 1932 tour of Kent

Minstead's ladies enjoy a cricket match on the village green in this charming film that also features two weddings, a holiday and a giant crab

The 1950s, the zenith of cricket as the perfect expression of the English refinement of leisure, along with smoking a pipe and having a beer.

Lady Congleton's film captures the joys of country-house cricket in the 1930s - complete with servants, prams and New Forest ponies

Bill Alley and Brian Roe coach young cricketers in the nets at County Ground

Sussex take on Lancashire in this charming film of Horsham Cricket Week and Grand Carnival

Amateur film of tennis and cricket in a Kentish family garden, plus cricket at Canterbury's St Lawrence Ground.

Lovely sport and leisure compilation of Purkiss family home movies, featuring cycling, swimming and top level cricket.

Caerleon Cricket Club’s players enjoy the sport in the seasonal sunshine.

In true British sporting tradition, at Lord’s Cricket Ground, Fenland underdogs Isleham are out-bowled - and a streaker invades the pitch.