Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia
To be held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
31st October, 1st & 2nd November 2025
Lot 40
Estimate: £200/300
Legh Barratt. Norfolk C.C..C. 1890 to 1908. ‘Cricket Cuttings’. Norfolk C.C.C. cricket 1900-1908. Half leather black scrapbook kept by Barratt with newspaper cuttings covering matches, invitation and dinner menu, handwritten notes etc. The end paper reads ‘Legh Barratt. June 1900’, in ink in Barratt’s hand. The cutting include reports and cuttings involving Norfolk against Northumberland, Hertfordshire, Yorkshire 2nd XI, Durham, West Indies in 1900, Old Rossallian Tour 1901, v Surrey 2nd XI, Hertfordshire, Cambridge, M.C.C. (Dr Arthur Conan Doyle played for the M.C.C. and made 16 and also took four wickets in the match), Durham, M.C.C. & Ground, Cambridgeshire, Suffolk in 1901, The Norfolk Cricket Week 1902 & 1903 with matches v Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, M.C.C, etc, v Eton Ramblers, Suffolk, Hertfordshire, London County (W.G. Grace playing and making 17 and 6 and taking a catch and six wickets, v Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Cambridgeshire in 1904, In 1907 v Cambridgeshire, Oxfordshire, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire etc and in 1908 v Bedfordshire. There are also two press cuttings with biographies and pen pictures of Barratt. The Dinner menu and invitation are for a Complimentary Dinner to the club secretary Mr E.G. Buxton in 1905. The Dinner held at The Maid’s Head Hotel, Norwich on the 6th October 1905, the same year that Norfolk won the Minor Counties Championship. The handwritten notes written to both sides of a single page refer two different cricket matches, one refers to playing in a match for a scratch under A. Simpson’s team against Sir Humphrey de Trafford’s team and making 125 runs out of a total of 186 ‘This was the best innings I ever played-the behaviour of some of Sir H’s guests was disgusting. At lunch they all sat on one side of the table... looked at our team... as much as to say what strange beasts are there!!’. The other side of the page refers to a match played in Ripon where Barratt made 93 runs in the afternoon against a team including Tom Emmett and in the same evening making a break of 125 at billiards. 34pp. Odd further cricketing notes to inside rear board. Some wear and breaking to the leather binding, especially at the spine, contents good. The scrapbook measures 8”x12”. Previously sold as part of Legh Barratt collection sold by Knights in their 2021 auction as lot 281
Legh Barratt. Norfolk C.C..C. 1890 to 1908. Barratt was a member of the Robert Slade Lucas tour of the West Indies in 1894-95 and the Arthur Priestley tour of the West Indies in 1896-97. Legh Barratt, sometimes erroneously recorded at times as Leigh Barratt, was born in Altrincham, Cheshire in 1871 but played all his county cricket for Norfolk with his first match in 1890 against Hampshire at Southampton. He played in fifty eight matches for Norfolk as a minor county all-rounder with a highest score of 166 and an average of 23.41 with the bat and took 31 wickets at 22.41 with a best of 5-53. His only first class matches were the fifteen matches he played on the two tours of the West Indies, scoring 253 runs at an average of 11 and taking nine wickets at an average of 34.88. He married Mary Thorburn in Cromer, Norfolk, in 1899 and lived in a house on Sheringham Golf Course. He had two brothers, Gordon and William Barratt, who also played for Norfolk. He died in December 1950 at the age of 79 years