Description:A cricket match taking place at Hoar Cross Hall. The cricket pitch was on Church Flatts in front of the hall and opposite the Vicarage. Col. Hugo Meynell was a keen cricketer. In 1924 he paid the Marylebone Cricket Club £4.00 for his two young sons to have two weeks of batting classes at Lords'.
Hoar Cross Hall was built between 1862 and 1871 by Henry Clutton. It was begun by Hugo Meynell-Ingram just before his marriage in 1863 to Emily Charlotte, daughter of Sir Charles Wood, Bt. On 26 May 1871 Hugo Meynell-Ingram was killed in a hunting accident, and his widow had the Church of the Holy Angels built in his memory.
The Meynells left Hoar Cross Hall in 1952. The Hall was purchased by William Bickerton Jones and his wife Gwyneth in 1970. In 1989 it was purchased by businessman Steve Joynes and opened as a health spa resort which opened in April 1991.
Postcard photographed and published by J. S. Simnett of Burton on Trent