It wasn't

actually street cricket.

The reason for that being that the streets in those days were stones and earth, but between the streets there were lanes, which was solid black earth, probably from a soot deposited over the years and... rolled out by various people and trampled on it but at least it gave us an even surface to play on so usually the wickets were chalked against the back of someone's outside lavatory block when they were all outside in those days and we played our games there and it was always if you hit the ball completely over the gardens and over the roof it was always six and out So happy days.

When the grounds opened at the welfare grounds in Rochester in 1929, Bethesda Chapel kindly gave the cricket club a pavilion, which had two changing rooms.

Everything was made of wood.

It had two changing rooms, about eight foot square, and no water, no electricity, nothing.

and showers in those days were in the old stables of the old welfare house but they were running water and quite good but the wooden pavilion itself was just very small and compact.

And where does your interest in history come from, Derek?