b'Harry SmithBased on a conversation with Mike & Kate Pratt recorded on 21st June 2005jacket other than a black tie. I never got first eleven cricket colours but I got first fifteen rugby colours - there was no jacket for that but there was another coloured tie. You had to buy your colours. If you played in all the matches you qualified for first eleven colours. I played in all first eleven matches but one when they played at Yapham. They used to play two or three masters so two or three of the lads had to drop out. So I was done out of my first eleven colours. Ive still got that jacket and the cap that went with it! [Harrys wife, Queenie, found them and Harry tried them on at this point, looking a bit constricted but proud (see the photo)! The cap had a date of 1945 in it].I sat the eleven-plus at Driffield when we were living at Fridaythorpe. I failed that but there was an entrance examination at Pocklington School for boys of ten and eleven. I came and sat that and I was lucky enough to Harry in his cricket jacket c1945 - Photographpass. Id already started there before arriving in Bishop supplied by Bessy Fridlington Wilton. I used to cycle to school from Bishop Wilton, six days a week. When we played matches away we used to travel by train from Pocklington. I remember playing at Ampleforth College. We went to York by train, then to Thirsk and a bus met us at Thirsk. You still had your homework to do even though youd been away cricketing. No excuse! National ServiceI stayed at Pocklington School until I was seventeen. I had plans to be a teacher. Then I did National Service. Well, I was called up and I did six weeks. I was passed A2 at Leeds. I couldnt be A1 with only one eye. I did six weeks square-bashing up at Richmond and I got a posting to the Royal Army Pay Corps in Aldershot. I went to Catterick to be measured for Army glasses and the optician there said, What in the world are you doing in here! You should never have been in. So, back to Richmond I went and idled about for two weeks and I had to come down to York to get a demob suit. I qualified for that. I had to travel back to Richmond and they said, Right, thats it. You can go now. Id been within 13 Harry sportingly tries on the same jacket andmiles of Bishop Wilton at York. I wasnt pleased at all. also the cap he wore 60 years ago. I came out as F6. Some friends of my mother wanted her to take it up with our MP. When I went for interviews for teaching and they Pocklington School saw the record, no-one wanted to know. I was born The photo of me in a striped blazer is from whenwith glaucoma and in 1929 the only cure was to take we used to have polyphotos when you got a lot ofthe eye out. I was three months old. So Ive never different poses on a sheet. Im in the cricket coloursknown the use of two eyes. for the second eleven at Pocklington School. Id haveCricket at Bishop Wiltonbeen around 16 at the time. I got the colours afterThe Wetwang Cup (see photo) was the first cricket playing in matches. You could wear a tie with the 204 BULLETIN 12'