Aubrey Faulkner / Faulkner School of Cricket
1924-04-15
In April 1924 the South African all-rounder Aubrey Faulkner opened the Faulkner School of Cricket in Walham Green, London — the first dedicated indoor coaching school in cricket, and the institutional model for every coaching academy that followed across the 20th century.
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1835-07-10
The earliest documented cricket match at Charterhouse School — then on its London Smithfield site — was an inter-form fixture played in the summer of 1835. Charterhouse cricket had been informal through the late eighteenth century; the 1835 match is the earliest with surviving documentation in the school's records. Charterhouse would, by the late nineteenth century, become a notable cricketing school.
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1832-07-15
The 1832 Lord's season was the most disrupted of the early Victorian period. London's first major cholera epidemic — which killed around 6,500 in the city between February and November — caused the cancellation of nearly half the scheduled fixtures. Crowd attendance at the matches that did take place was a fraction of normal. The season is the clearest measure of the impact of public-health crises on early Victorian cricket.
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1831-06-25
The earliest documented cricket match at Christ's Hospital School — the historic 'Bluecoat' charity school in central London — was a house fixture played in the summer of 1831. Cricket had been informal at Christ's Hospital from the late eighteenth century; the 1831 match is the earliest preserved with a full account in the school's surviving records.