Topic: Hand made English willow, 5 - star grading....and only �19.95 (Read 3178 times)

Northern monkey · « **Reply #15 on:** February 04, 2021, 02:40:49 PM »

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,

Bats_Entertainment · « **Reply #16 on:** February 04, 2021, 02:49:18 PM »

Maybe coincided with the demise of SP?

Tony Game · « **Reply #17 on:** February 05, 2021, 03:43:17 PM »

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)

Bats_Entertainment · « **Reply #18 on:** February 05, 2021, 05:06:53 PM »

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.

shentser · « **Reply #19 on:** February 05, 2021, 07:26:43 PM »

One of my greatest cricketing regrets

Never owning a Saint Peter

Bats_Entertainment · « **Reply #20 on:** February 05, 2021, 08:35:42 PM »

Quote from: shentser on February 05, 2021, 07:26:43 PM

One of my greatest cricketing regrets

Never owning a Saint Peter

Make Tony an offer?

procricket · « **Reply #21 on:** February 05, 2021, 09:32:53 PM »

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

Tony Game · « **Reply #22 on:** February 08, 2021, 03:32:36 PM »

"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

Rez · « **Reply #23 on:** February 08, 2021, 08:27:12 PM »

Takes me right back, lovely

Bats_Entertainment · « **Reply #24 on:** February 08, 2021, 08:55:23 PM »

Quote from: Tony Game on February 08, 2021, 03:32:36 PM

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 :F

Fair enough. Although if Geoff Boycott can sell his bats, anyone can.

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