I was reading a 2011 memoir by a previous UC employee, Eric Beardsley, and came across this interesting library related anecdote (page, 205). 
O week mini golf perhaps?
Ngā mihi
Dave Clemens
I was reading a 2011 memoir by a previous UC employee, Eric Beardsley, and came across this interesting library related anecdote (page, 205).
O week mini golf perhaps?
Ngā mihi
Dave Clemens
I remember well the bronze green carpet!
After the September earthquake and the damage was being cleaned up the Crown staff who were hired to do the shifting of books had their lunch and then played cricket in the open spaces of level 4 before going back to the afternoon shift. The bat was a bit of wood and the ball was a rolled up ball of glad-wrap and the wickets were cardboard boxes. Despite the environment the rules were recognizably the same as those played at Lords or Lancaster park.
Tim O’Sullivan
Strangely as an undergraduate (way back when) I remember playing a game of cricket on the roof of the library (currently where level 5 Payroll is) when a door was found to be unlocked.
The rule was simple one hand one bounce and any six was immediately lost off the roof.
Ahhh memories!