Cliftonville Cricket and Lawn Tennis Club (LOST)

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Cliftonville Cricket Club (no longer exists)

Belfast

Northern Ireland

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Status: Lost/missing

Type: Non freestanding

Location: Internal

Setting: Inside a building - public/private

Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet

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Metal Bronze
Timber Timber (any)

Lettering: Raised

Conflicts:

First World War (1914-1918)

About the memorial: Bronze plaque on a wooden backboard with a raised inscription commemorating 15 names. The first name on the plaque is that of VAD Nurse Winifred Elizabeth de Mesnie Atkinson, who died at Farnham Road Military Hospital and is buried in Belfast City Road Cemetery. The Club was destroyed by fire in 1972 during the Troubles, so the memorial is almost certainly lost.

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Extracted from Wikipedia- The club adopted its present name and moved to the Cliftonville Cricket Ground on the Cliftonville Road, where it played until 1972. In that year, the club was forced to vacate the ground after a series of sectarian attacks against members and the looting and burning of the clubhouse by a hostile mob. The 1973 season was played at Mossley, 1974 at Shaw's Bridge, Belfast, and in 1975 the club found a permanent base at Mallusk. In 1979, Cliftonville merged with Greenisland Cricket Club (founded 1930), continuing to play at Mallusk until a move to new facilities at Greenisland in 1990. In 2007, however, the owners of the Greenisland pitch, Greenisland War Memorial Sports Club, decided to replace the cricket pitch with an artificial hockey pitch and for the 2008 season, Cliftonville had to play all its matches away from home. Since 2009, the club has returned to Mallusk.

In 2017, the club merged with Academy Cricket Club to form a new club called Cliftonville Academy Cricket Club."

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Details of the 15 Individuals Commemorated on The Memorial are listed below. Lest we Forget. The memorial as in the British Newspapers Archives Belfast Telegraph  30th March 1927 p12 Belfast Telegraph  reads 

                 Cliftonville Cricket & Lawn Tennis Club 

In Grateful Memory of The Following Members  who made the supreme sacrifice in The Great War .
                               1914-1918

                       Winifred E.Du M Atkinson 
David C Bates                              William A Malone
Henry P Beggs                             Howard T Millar 
Andrew H Jarman                       William Nixon
Norman Lowden                         Arthur G Robinson
John B McDowell                        William S R Steven
Andrew McKendrick                   William E R Tyndall
Bristow M Malone                      Claude A L Walker
                          
                          They Played The Game 


They played the game -Cliftonville Cricket and Lawn Tennis Club  War Memorial , which was unveiled on Monday night.  28th March 1927 (as reported in the Belfast Telegraph 30th March 1927 p12).

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