J M Barrie was an occasional amateur film-maker. One of his films, shot in 1923, is called The Yellow Week at Stanway, and an excerpt from it (featuring cricket) has now been posted on the Amazon page for my book Peter Pan’s First XI.

The footage shows a team of Nico Llewelyn Davies’s friends playing cricket at the Stanway ground in Gloucestershire. Barrie spent much of his summer at Stanway House throughout the 1920s and it was only a few miles away from Broadway (across the border in Worcestershire) where the Allahakbarries challenged a team of artists for three summers between 1897 and 1899.

As far as I know this is the only place on the internet where it is possible to watch any of this film. It is possible to watch the whole thing by physically going to the BFI on London’s South Bank and there is more information on the film on the BFI’s own website, including a full synopsis.

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