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Philip Snow interviewed by David Rayvern Allen Part 1



Reference
MCC/AAL/3/147
Date:
2006-11-27
Level of description
item
Extent
1 CD: 59 minutes 41 seconds
Part of
David Rayvern Allen Audio Archive (MCC/AAL/3)
Scope and Content
1 CD, Philip Snow, cricketer, colonial administrator and bursar of Rugby School, interviewed by David Rayvern Allen. The CD consists of 13 tracks.

Track 1: [0:00-0:29] Rayvern Allen talks about a train journey, [0:30-0:52] Introduction by Rayvern Allen, [0:53-4:24] Snow talks about his early childhood, father and brothers.

Track 2: [0:00-1:05] Snow talks about being taught cricket by his brother C P Snow, [1:06-1:28] Snow talks about the state of cricket at his school, Alderman Newton's School, [1:30-2:23] Snow talks about growing up near living near Aylestone Road Cricket Ground and going to watch Leicestershire vs. Australians aged 6, [2:24-3:12] Snow compares the bowling attack of the 1921 Australians to Dennis Lillee and Jeff Thomson, [3:13-3:59] Snow talks about watching Leicestershire county cricket as a boy and following progress of amateurs, [4:00-5:59] Snow talks about watching S F Barnes get stumped with both feet in the air.

Track 3: [0:00-0:16] Snow talks about Staffordshire trying to draw the game with Leicestershire, [0:17-1:40] Snow talks about collecting autographs at the end of matches, [1:41-2:12] Snow maintains the period 1919-1939 as the golden age of cricket, [2:13-2:45] Snow talks about playing school cricket Maurice Tompkin and his career, [2:46-5:16] Snow talks about joining the Leicestershire indoor cricket school and being coached by George Geary.

Track 4: [0:00-2:31] Snow talks about being elected to Cambridge Crusaders, missing out on a trial for the University and class attitudes, [2:32-3:44] Snow talks about John Sharp's military career and his death, [3:45-4:33] Snow talks about being elected to the Hawks Clubs and being nominated by Norman Yardley, [4:34-4:44] Snow begins to talk about Paul Gibb.

Track 5: [0:00-4:39] Snow talks about playing table tennis including with Paul Gibb at Cambridge University.

Track 6: [0:00-0:57] Rayvern Allen and Snow discuss Paul Gibb, [0:58-2:09] Snow talks about organising college cricket tours and batting with Reverend Gilbert Jessop, [2:10-3:26] Snow talks about some of his contemporaries at Oxford and Cambridge including Michael Packe, [3:27-3:49] Snow talks about Les Berry, [3:50-5:42] Snows goes through his notes and talks about playing in a Leicestershire Gentlemen match vs. Magdalen College, [5:43-5:46] Track cuts out.

Track 7: [0:00-1:56] Snow talks about Michael Packe and his brothers, [1:57-2:34] Snow talks about lob bowling, [2:35-4:44] Snow talks about playing for the Leicestershire Gentlemen against Sir Julien Cahn's XI and being hit on the thigh by a bowler.

Track 8: [0:00-2:04] Snow talks about Sir Julien Cahn's anger at being given out and his inflatable pads, [2:05-3:29] Snow talks about being offered to play for Sir Julien Cahn's XI, [3:30-5:50] Snow talks about Sir Julien Cahn.

Track 9: [0:00-2:19] Snow talks about Sir Julien Cahn sacking his chauffeur and his family, [2:20-3:31] Snow talks about MCC rejecting Cahn's book collection and who was working there at the time.

Track 10: [0:00-2:32] Rayvern Allen and Snow talks about Cahn's book collection and how Cahn is perceived, [2:33-3:00] Snow talks about reading modern history at Cambridge University, [3:01-4:29] Snow talks about how came to work applying to work in the Sudan.

Track 11: [0:00-0:48] Snow talks about Norman Mitchell-Innes and failing in the job interview, [0:49-2:13] Snow talks about looking to work in administration overseas, [2:14-4:25] Snow talks about coming to work for the colonial service in Fiji.

Track 12: [0:00-2:43] Snow talks about length of service with colonial service and other opportunities to work elsewhere in the world, [2:44-4:31] Snow talks about resigning to avoid his daughter going to a boarding school and his own grammar school.

Track 13: [0:00-1:07] Snow talks about his the reading and writing he did in Fiji, [1:08-3:58] Snow talks about his relationship with his brothers and his father, [3:59-4:03] Interview cuts out.


A back-up copy of this CD is included.
Associations
Philip Albert Snow
David Rayvern Allen
Charles Percy Snow
Alderman Newton's School
Leicestershire County Cricket Club
Sydney Francis Barnes
Maurice Tompkin
George Geary
John Aubrey Taylor Sharp
Norman Walter Dransfield Yardley
Paul Antony Gibb
Cambridge University
George Leslie Berry
Michael St John Packe
Sir Julien Cahn's XI
Sir Julien Cahn
Norman Stewart Mitchell-Innes
Sir Everton de Courcy Weekes
Gregory Stephen Chappell
Peter Barker Howard May
Thomas William Graveney
Edward Ralph Dexter
Michael Colin Cowdrey
David Ivon Gower
Barry Anderson Richards
Subject
Aylestone Road Cricket Ground, school cricket, Leicestershire cricket, Australia in England 1921, class issues, Public Schools, Table Tennis
Conditions governing access
Open
Language
English
Size
1 CD: 59 minutes 41 seconds
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