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Back in the day, cricket lovers would arrive at Sheffield Park Station by steam train for matches on his lordship's estate. Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images via Sussex CCC
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Full steam ahead. Sussex cricket goes back to its roots this Sunday

The club's museum stages its first roadshow of the summer at historic Sheffield Park - and you could even get there by train.

20.05.26, 19:58 Updated 21.05.26, 19:32 2 Minute Read

Paul Weaver

Paul Weaver

Sussex cricket returns to its roots this weekend with the first of four roadshows organised by the club’s museum this summer.

It will take place at the National Trust’s Sheffield Park and Garden on Sunday and a day of music, sport and food will celebrate the lasting legacy of that great benefactor, Lord Sheffield.

Keith Ridge, curator of the Sussex Cricket Museum, told me: “These roadshows are really important to us and we’ve gradually built them up.

“We started in Newick a couple of years ago and last year visited Lindfield and Arundel for the Metro Bank One-Day Cup game.

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