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Very Brief History Of Our Pavilion
The first authenticated evidence of cricket being played at Outwood was
in 1887. Our existing pavilion was built in 1897 at the bequest of Alfred Lloyd,
father of Theodore, at a cost of £198.0s 7d.
A process of continual investment in our pavilion over the last 40 years has
provided improved amenities from those deemed acceptable at the turn of the
century. For example, we have installed electricity (to replace gas lighting)
and toilet facilities, extended the rear of the pavilion to include showers,
urinals, wash basins and additional storage for our groundsman, extended the
front of the pavilion to increase main pavilion area when the bar was created,
extended the side of the pavilion to incorporate a scorebox and replaced the
pavilion roof.
As part of the investigation into the pavilion subsidence it was
discovered that the foundations of the pavilion are primitive and inadequate.
Furthermore, the building has suffered considerable degradation over the years
and the internal design is inappropriate for modern needs. You
will see from the photograph of the pavilion today that it has had to be
supported externally to make it safe for temporary on-going usage.
In January 2004 we lodged a subsidence claim against our Insurers. They
accepted liability in 2004 and we received a final settlement cheque from them
in February 2007. The sequence of events can be summarised as follows:
- We
engaged an engineer in Autumn 2003
- lodged
a claim with our insurance company in January 2004
- pavilion
declared unsafe Autumn 2004
- insurance
company accepted liability October 2004
- pavilion
structure made safe via external supports March 2005
- insurance
company installed remotely monitored meters to measure movement Autumn 2005
- Insurance
settlement received February 2007
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