Hazard Colliery Cricket Club

HER Number:
15733

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Hazard Colliery Cricket Club

Place:
East Rainton

Map Sheet:
NZ34NW

Class:
Recreational

Site Type: Broad:
Sports Ground

Site Type: Specific:
Cricket Ground

General Period:
POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period:
Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence:
Structure

Description:
In existence by 1851. The pitch was also encircled by the embankment carrying the railway from Hazard Pit (now footpaths). A pit pony was used each year to pull the grass cutting machine. He was stabled in a small shed next to the pavilion. The club has played in four different fields. Known as East Rainton Cricket Club when the pit closed 1935. The Football Club took over the original cricket field as their pitch. They had to change in the Village Tavern as they had no pavilion.

Easting:
433830

Northing:
548290

Grid Reference:
NZ433830548290

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
East Rainton Women's Institute, no date, History of East Rainton (typescript); Hetton Local & Natural History Society, 2015, The Hetton Village Atlas p562