A chronological history of the Alexandra Park Club.
2020s
2022
APCC 3rd XI win Division 5A to gain promotion
2021
APCC 1st XI win promotion to 3rd Division in the first season of the amalgamated Middlesex County League
2010s
2019
2016
2013
2011
2000s
2009
APCC elects as 1st XI Captain D. Cordy.
2008
APC elects A.J.Drake, N.E.Grimes, and B.S.King as Honorary Life Members.
2007
APC elects as President J.R.Bruscini to succeed C.W.G.Wilson.
2006
APCC elects as 1st XI Captain T.Sameem.
2005
2004
APCC elects as 1st XI Captain B.C.Smith.
2003
2002
APC elects R.I.Rundle as an Honorary Life Member.
2001
APCC elects as 1st XI Captain C.Bennett.
2000
APCC elects as 1st XI Captain V.Gunawardena.
1990s
1999
1998
1997
AP 1st XI win the Middlesex Championship 1st Division, completing back-to-back league wins.
1996
1995
APC elects as President C.W.G.Wilson to succeed J.W.R.Drake, and elects B.M.Edwards, M.B.Miller and F.W.Withall as Honorary Life Members.
1994
APCC elects as 1st XI Captain A.K.Ghoshal.
1993
1992
February 9th - The APC Pavilion, built in 1976/7, was destroyed by fire.
1991
APCC elects as 1st XI Captain T.L.Haydon.
1990
APC elects P.R.Adams and J.R.Bruscini as Honorary Life Members.
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1980s
1989
APC elects C.W.G.Wilson and Mrs J.A.Wilson as Honorary Life Members.
1988
APCC celebrates its ‘Centenary Year’ with matches against the MCC, the CCC, and the Middlesex Cricketers League, and a Dinner on Friday September 23rd at the Firs Hall N21 with APCC Chairman C.W.G.Wilson in the chair.
1985
July 16th - The APP Trustees may let for 22 years any part of park not exceeding 40 acres for games. (Act of 1985)
1984
APCC elects as 1st XI Captain A.J.Drake.
1983
APC elects Mrs A.I.Munro as an Honorary Life Member.
1982
APC elects A.W.Eastgate as an Honorary Life Member.
1982
APCC elects as 1st XI Captain J.W.Cox.
1981
APCC elects as 1st XI Captain M.E.Cullen.
1980
1970s
1979
1978
APC elects Miss E.A.Jeffries as an Honorary Life Member.
1977
1975
1973
APCC elects as 1st XI Captain D.M.Douglas.
1972
1971
1970
Tuesday September 8th - The last meeting at ‘Ally Pally’ Racecourse as the Jockey Club would not renew the licence.
1960s
1969
1968
APCC elects as 1st XI Captain D.J.Oakes.
1967
APCC elects as President C.E.Marten to succeed C.S.Davies, and elects J.W.R.Drake and J.L.Stewart as Honorary Life Members.
1966
1964
APCC elects as President C.S.Davies to succeed S.W.Brent.
1963
May 19th - APCC celebrates its ‘75th Anniversary Year’ with a match against an Eleven captained by Mr P.I. (Ian) Bedford, MCC and former Middlesex CCC Captain.
1962
APCC elects A.I.Munro as an Honorary Life Member.
1961
1960
1950s
1959
APCC elects Mrs L.G.May and F.S.Haynes as Honorary Life Members.
1958
APCC elects as President S.W.Brent to succeed E.A.Cawdron, JP.
1957
APCC elects as 1st XI Captain J.W.R.Drake, and elects C.S.Davies as an Honorary Life Member.
1955
1954
1953
The Club Cricket Conference elects L.W.Newman as President.
1950
APCC elects S.W.Brent as an Honorary Life Member.
1940s
1949
Wednesday 23rd March - APCC celebrates its ‘Diamond Jubilee’ with a Dinner at the Abercorn Rooms, Gt Eastern Hotel with Chairman the APCC President County Alderman E.A.Cawdron.
1948
APCC elects E.A.Cawdron and H.R.Greenwood as its first Honorary Life Members.
1946
1930s
1938
1936
November 2nd - The first regular high definition television service in the world inaugurated by the BBC and transmitted from the television station at the south-east corner of the Alexandra Palace.
1934
Wednesday September 19th - APCC is visited by Donald Bradman (knighted 1949) following completion of the ‘Ashes’ series.
1933
1932
September 17th - APFC plays its first season on the field below the boating lake in Alexandra Park.
1930
1920s
1929
APCC elects as 1st XI Captain S.W.Brent to succeed E.A.Cawdron, Founder and Middlesex County Councillor.
1926
October 1st - Alexandra Palace Indoor Cricket Club founded.
1925
September 1st - APFC enters the Southern Amateur League (SAL).
1921
APCC changes name to Alexandra Park Cricket and Lawn Tennis Club and embarks upon its first Kent Tour.
1910s
1915
APCC and 23 other cricket clubs found the Club Cricket Conference.
1913
The APP Trustees may let for 21 years any part of the park not exceeding 20 acres for games. (Act of 1913).
1912
May 1st - APCC takes possession of the lease for the entire AP Racecourse Ground.
1900s
1906
May 1st - APCC changes name to Alexandra Park Cricket and Tennis Club, fields a ‘Thursday’ side, and plays its first season on part of the AP Racecourse Ground.
1905
APCC is a ‘Rambling’ club with practice ground at Park Road, Bowes Park and changes “Colours” to Dark Blue.
1904
APCC elects as President Walter F. Bradshaw, Esq.
1900
August - The lands and buildings, known as the Alexandra Park and Palace (APP), acquired by a body corporate of Trustees constituted for the purpose and representing the major purchasers, Middlesex County Council and Hornsey and Wood Green Urban District Councils. (Act of 1900).
1800s
1899
APCC elects as President R.D.M.Littler, Esq., QC, CB and adopts for “Colours” Light and Dark Blue.
1898
September 1st - E.A.Cawdron and friends found the Alexandra Park Football Club (APFC).
1888
May 1st - E.A.Cawdron and J.Lock found the Alexandra Park Cricket Club (APCC).
1877
November 24th - Ernest Albert Cawdron is born.
1875
May 1st - The second Alexandra Palace opened.
1873
May 24th - Alexandra Palace opened on Queen Victoria’s birthday only to be reduced by fire to a smouldering ruin sixteen days later on June 9th.
1868
June - Alexandra Park race course opened.
1863
July - Alexandra Park opened, the name being chosen as a tribute to the Princess of Wales.
1863
March 10th - HRH Princess Alexandra of Denmark marries Albert Edward Prince of Wales at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor.