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<h1>Cricket Club based in Bristol Somerset</h1>
<p>Failand and Portbury Cricket Club, offering good facilities, a beautiful ground and lots of opportunities to both players and
supporters.The ground is situated in Horse Race Lane, Lower Failand and our members hail from all around the South Bristol area.
Whatever the level of skill, space is always found in one of our cricket teams.</p>
<p>Portbury Cricket Club was established in 1889 and amalgamated with Failand five years later to give us the cricket club we
know today. Failand and Portbury got its last "new" pavilion in 1971 with the erection of a wooden sectional building on the
present site- the structure was formerly temporary offices on a building site at Brislington which was carefully dismantled and
transported to Horserace Lane. The wooden panelling of the bar and clubroom was taken out of the old pavillion, built in 1894.
This highly skilled work was completed by Mike Heyes, the club vice-captain, and plumbing, flooring and wiring was done by
members throughout the winter.</p>
<p>The next 'celebration' in the clubs' long history came with the purchase of the ground in 1977 with members raising £3,000 in
all sorts of ways. The club was also given generous grants by Wraxall Parish Council, Woodspring District Council and a low
interest loan from the National Playing Fields Association.</p>
<p>The final chapter of the clubs history began two years ago with the realisation that another "new" clubhouse was needed- that
dream has now become a reality, giving Failand and Portbury facilities which are the envy of many and providing the stage for
the next 100 years</P>
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