As a family, we started going to the cricket club when I was about 10 years old (I'm now 47!) and my sister Jayne and her friend Melinda had some interest in some of the older boys. I started playing for the under 18's a season or two later, and my dad, alongside Arthur Joynson, and coached by Robbo, ran the team for a few years. Dad and Arthur became good mates, and they effectively took us to all the away matches and picked the team for a number of years. The team wouldn't have been a team without their support and them giving-up their time. Andy Joynson has a great team photo from when we around 16 years old.

Dad became a member of the exec committee for years, becoming bar secretary (I think that was his title) and working behind the bar. He was always happy to help out behind the bar on a busy night, and would volunteer on match days to help the club out. He even used to work behind the bar on my behalf whilst I was away at University, so that I could earn a few quid in the holidays. He also arranged and ran the "100 club" for years and helped to arrange social nights with Pat Latham and others to get income into the club.

Without a doubt, he loved belonging to the club and had many friends down there. He loved a pint of M&B mild and smoked his pipe, and would happily sit there for hours, either enjoying his own company, or with others. His association with the club lasted over 30 years, and it was only when his mobility failed him in recent years that the nights in the club house had to stop.

I'd like to personally thank the club and its members for adopting my dad as one of its own, it became a big and enjoyable part of his life.

From ACC -
ACC mourns the loss of Keith Chadwick who passed away in April. He had been a good friend and servant of the cricket club over many years.
Keith first became involved in the Club when he managed the Kidsgrove League team, along with Arthur Joynson and Philip Robinson, when his son, Richard, was a member of that team. He soon became drawn into the administrative side of the club when he joined the Executive Committee, from where he became part of that essential group of people – the ‘doers’.
Keith was responsible for launching, and then running for many years, the Hundred Club. This scheme still continues today and has raised many hundreds of pounds for the Club.
Keith also spent many years managing the Bar, as well as being a very popular bartender himself. Although amiable and jovial, he took no nonsense from either his customers or barstaff – including his wife, Anne who often joined him behind the bar.
His friends at ACC are greatly saddened by Keith’s death. Not only a hard worker, but a kind and generous man with a ready wit, who enriched the lives of all who had the good fortune to have known him.
Our condolences to his widow, Anne, to his children, Jayne and Richard, and to Keith’s extended family.