In its modest glory, Sussex's museum is the best in the land
23.03.26, 20:30 Updated 12.05.26, 20:34 4 Minute Read
Paul Weaver
It is quite inconceivable that you haven’t visited the Sussex Cricket Museum. That would be an oversight bordering on negligence.
But if that is the case you must remedy it immediately. You should enter the County Ground at Hove by its main entrance, keep to the left, pass through the mighty iron edifice of the Tate Gates … and there, on the right, it is, in all its modest glory.
Like Dr Who’s TARDIS, its entrance does not suggest the cornucopia of goodies that lie within. This was once the groundstaff's headquarters and you will have to negotiate the bewildered ghost of Peter Eaton, Hove’s most famous head groundsman, who died in 2000 aged 57. Most cricketers agreed – “HG” produced the best pitches in the country.
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