It is believed that the 1908 season was the last year that cricket was played at Buxton Road as the Chingford Rise Estate Company was buying up all the land in the North Chingford area and selling it off for development – and at the time the west side of Buxton Road had already been houses for well over 10 years.
Arthur Barber was Captain and the results we know about were as follows::
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Won
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Drawn
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Lost
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1st XI
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2
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5
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5
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2nd XI
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0
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1
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1
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Midweek XI
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0
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0
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1
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The first match between Essex Club and Ground and Chingford took place on 4 June 1908 at Leyton. The only details we have of this match is that Essex won by two runs having scored 78 all out – Chingford replying with 76 all out.
One of the most remarkable games in the history of the Club took place on Bank Holiday Monday, 3 August 1908 at home to Myddleton. In a 2 innings match Myddleton were dismissed for 88 but were then given a complete and utter pasting as Chingford amassed 359-6 declared, with Hector Munro, batting at number SEVEN smashing his own club record before he was eventually caught for a mammoth 150, in an innings which saw Russell, De La Cour and Ellis all make half centuries aswell. The hapless Myddleton resorted to playing out time in their second innings and secured a draw on 53-8!
R.Russell also hit a century with an unbeaten 101 in the draw with Barclay in August.
Inevitably Hector Munro was the Club’s leading batsman with a tally of 228 and with the ball WG Longden continued his record of being leading wicket taker every year so far in the Club’s history with 25 wickets including a season’s best of 5-16 v Barclay.
The 9 October Woodford Times reports of two cricket club concerts on the same evening, with the Chingford Excelsior CC holding theirs in the Parish Room, while Chingford CC had “upgraded” to the Royal Forest Hotel:
Mr JRT Longden was the musical director, and is to be congratulated on the brilliant success of the venture. An excellent and lengthy programme was greatly enjoyed by a very large audience.