THE CRICKETERS
THE CRICKETERS - A LITERARY LONDON PUB
Cricket has been played on the Green since the mid-17th century. The earliest reference is from a 1666 letter by Sir Robert Paston.
The White Horse Inn occupied the site, plus some, until it was demolished c.1700. A public house called The Crickett Players stood in the pub’s current location, facing Richmond Green, in 1770. The old building was destroyed by fire in August 1844 but quickly replaced.
The pub currently run by Greene King is cosy inside with cricket-paraphernalia, as you would expect. Table seating flows from the pub onto the pavement in the summer. Charles Leon’s has sketched a watercolour of the pub while YouTube have this video.
The Cricketers has been used many times as a story location:
1) In?S. E. Lynes‘s thriller The Pact (2018): “… there’s a noise… new noise… the bubbling sound of people talking… we are in a pub. It’s the Cricketers on Richmond Green, I recognise it – hurray!”
2) In?E.C Scullion’s?Evaders (2021): “Becca had wiped the keys of prints, dropped them on the hedge at the point at which Richie had knocked into Shelley Robbins. Richie joined her in the Cricketers Pub on Richmond Green, taking a different route to her from the flat.”
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3) In?Danielle Ramsay’s My Best Friend’s Secret (2023): “Our favourite haunt was The Cricketers, overlooking the Green, one of the oldest and quaintest pubs in Richmond.”
4) In John Eidemak’s?Goodbye Morality (2014): “On the evening of Monday, 5th March, David Kennedy met John in the Cricketers public house on Richmond Green. The pub was lit by candles, due to the miners’ strike and it took some time for John’s eyes to adjust to the darkness.”
5) In Dan Derrett’s short story Statistics (2006): “He had a pint in the White Cross and watched the tide slowly creep towards parked cars. He had another in the Cricketers and watched tourists.”
Jim?and I stopped for a pint at The Cricketers. On the same trip, we also popped into another literary pub The White Cross.
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