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Equipment => Bats => Topic started by: Tony Game on February 03, 2021, 05:49:20 PM
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My first post on the forum so forgive me :)
And it was that price in when I ordered it in October 1980.....St Peter Caravelle now retired from the game (like me) and resting alongside three of its fellow 1980's retirees!!
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Wow! Saint Peter! Were just disappearing as I got into cricket. Originally made by Lambert's in Lancashire. Possibly by County later on? More famous for their batting mittens; but also had a flat-back bat innovation, I think.
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Maybe one of the first 'sticker brands'? Unless anyone knows that they had a factory?
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Nope made at Lambert in Nelson
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Nope made at Lambert in Nelson
Always? When did Lambert stop making bats? Wasn't there a fire?
One of the first 'sticker brands'? Maybe the first?
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SP! Tusker!!
Love it!
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Always? When did Lambert stop making bats? Wasn't there a fire?
One of the first 'sticker brands'? Maybe the first?
Not always Lambert's stop being Lambert's and Hartley and changed into a timber supplier not sure when
Infact around from my grandma's on Nelson is Walter Lambert Coffins !!!
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They all look like they had life in them. Welcome to the forum!
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Not always Lambert's stop being Lambert's and Hartley and changed into a timber supplier not sure when
So SP could have been made by County later on? I seem to remenber being told that.
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My first post on the forum so forgive me :)
And it was that price in when I ordered it in October 1980.....St Peter Caravelle now retired from the game (like me) and resting alongside three of its fellow 1980's retirees!!
Lovely stuff! Remember a few SPs kicking around in my Dads team when I was a kid, always liked the simplicity of the branding
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Infact around from my grandma's on Nelson is Walter Lambert Coffins !!!
Seems the fire was more recent:
https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/9588159.updated-long-established-coffin-factory-nelson-devasted-fire/ (https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/9588159.updated-long-established-coffin-factory-nelson-devasted-fire/)
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Does the Tusker have a funky profile? Love a Tusker I do!
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"Does the Tusker have a funky profile? Love a Tusker I do!"
Alas no, this model was a conventional shape bat....but probably one of the best Ive owned.
It just felt good in the hand and the ball flew off of it :)
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Always? When did Lambert stop making bats? Wasn't there a fire?
One of the first 'sticker brands'? Maybe the first?
Their was a few fires over the years,,,seem to remember one that destroyed thousands of clefts at the time..
I lived a few hundred yards from there
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Their was a few fires over the years,,,seem to remember one that destroyed thousands of clefts at the time..
I lived a few hundred yards from there
So when did they stop making bats? My grandfathers Lambert's bat is in my parents' loft. That is why I became interested in the company. He would have finished playing in the late sixties, I think.
I wonder if Learie Constantine liked a Lambert's bat?
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I’ve no idea to be honest,,,
I knew the bats were made there, and the willow was stored there for drying etc, but I don’t remember seeing many of the bats.
I’m sure there was,,but that was in the days of club kit bags, very few had their own bats,,I must have been 14, or 15 when I got my first DF magnum
There were always a few sp bats about.
I was always a big DF fan, so if it wasn’t a Fearnley or a GN scoop, I wasn’t interested.
I do remember the stories about all the willow going up in smoke, that must have been mid eighties or sooner.
Always seemed to be something going up in smoke in those days,,health and safety was non existent,
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Maybe coincided with the demise of SP?
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SP had their time in the sun late seventies with Tony Greig headlining their UK advertising campaigns.
Post Packer and WSC it was a quick decline and the advert pictured from 1980 was pretty much a clear out of stock before they faded into oblivion (though the mitten gloves remained the favoured wear of a few well known cricketers)
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Looking at pictures from the seventies, there were definitely plenty of big names who used the gloves without using the bats. Early Ian Botham pictures, for example, show him wearing them.
Stuart Surridge marketed a similar glove called the 'Armadillo' in the eighties, but it never really caught on.
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One of my greatest cricketing regrets
Never owning a Saint Peter
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One of my greatest cricketing regrets
Never owning a Saint Peter
Make Tony an offer?
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Funny SP different brand same again by a dodgy seller in Devon in the early to mid 2000 Headfirst cricket or something I got stung with a bat from them
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"One of my greatest cricketing regrets
Never owning a Saint Peter"
"Make Tony an offer?"
Sorry ;) The bats in the rack are old friends....each tells a story and reminds me of good times with wonderful people.
I'd rather sell one of the kids :o :o :D
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Takes me right back, lovely :)
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Sorry ;) The bats in the rack are old friends....each tells a story and reminds me of good times with wonderful people.
I'd rather sell one of the kids :o :o :F
Fair enough. Although if Geoff Boycott can sell his bats, anyone can. ;)