The Club, as we know it today, was formed in 1919 when a Mr Vallance, a member of a previous club, offered the youth of the village some kit. A temporary ground near to Brewood Hall was first used, but the next year a move was made to the Marl Pit Ground in Kiddemore Green Road. Although this new ground had been laid out as a running track by the local Lodge of Oddfellows it was not ideally suited to cricket and there were numerous accidents. Only four matches, against Albrighton, Blymhill, Cheslyn Hay and Codsall, were played.

The next year the club moved to the present ground. The first match played here was against the Grammar School and the club were, apparently, dismissed for 10 runs.

In 1925, now feeling established the club built a new wooden pavilion. Percy Bill as he was often to be in the future was asked to do the work. The total cost £40 and thirty years later the pavilion was sold for £32. A Dennis motor mower was purchased and in 1933 there is a minute asking the secretary to offer the pony mower and the leather shoes, which had been made to protect the pitch, to the Wolverhampton Gas Cricket Club for £3 10s.

The Old Pavilion – Built in 1925

The club soon established itself as a force in local cricket and the first recorded century was by the late Frank Bill against Blymhill in the days when pheasants roamed in long outfields and a score of twenty was worth seventy or eighty these days.

Although cricket was halted by the war an active caretaker committee met regularly for fund raising activities and Brewood cricket, with one team, restarted on cup final day 1946 when, it was reported, the old Dennis mower started on the third pull.

Ambitious plans for improvements in fixtures were being made and in 1949, the year after the club colours were changed to the present navy blue with oak tree emblem, the President, R.M. Walley, initiated negotiations for the purchase of the ground with Major Monckton. A price of £400 was accepted and the land belonged to the club by September of that year.

Plans were made for the erection of a new pavilion, but shortage of money, materials and licences caused posponement of the project. In October, 1953, however,  after years of fund raising, the plans were ready for submission to the local authority and by April 1954 the footings were in place.

At the beginning of the 1955 season the pavilion, which was the envy of and the inspiration for many other clubs was ready. The opening ceremony was performed on June 19th by the then President of the Staffordshire County Cricket Club, Mr Bernard Meakin.

The Pavilion – Opened 19th June, 1955

In 1961, after an early end to the season, work began on levelling the ground and by early October the soil had been replaced and the seed had been sown and by the next year, althought the outfield was a little thin in places, the season started on time.

At the same time it was decided to rotate the square at right angles to it’s original position to increase it’s size and improve the view of the game.

Since this time  a scorebox was erected, but unfortunately time and the weather has seen it’s demise. A similar outcome awaits the groundsmans shed which has been in place for many years.

Footnote :-  In February, 2010 work started on a new score box that incorporated a new Groundsman shed and was completed by July. The opening ceremony took place in August. The old Groundsman shed which was an old WW2 Nissan hut and had given the club many years service (at least 40 years) was finally demolished in the Winter of 2010.

The new score box, which includes an Umpires changing room on the ground floor and an electronic scoreboard, is an imposing site and adds so much to the grounds of Brewood Cricket Club. Hopefully it will give as much service to the club as the previous two buildings did.