Letchworth Garden City Croquet Club was founded in 1987 by a small group of enthusiasts and with the help of the (then) corporation were  provided with a venue for their activities on the site of the old Spirella  tennis courts adjacent to Willian Way.

After much work on the playing surface, including using the ancient heavy roller left behind after the demise of the Spirella Sports Ground two nearly full-sized croquet lawns were created and the club members set about learning the finer points of the game with plenty of assistance from the East Anglian Croquet Association.

Very surprisingly, after only two years the club won the Longman Cup, the premier national handicap competition; something that the majority of croquet clubs never achieve!

The winning Longman Cup team from L to R:

Derek Powell, Duncan Hector, Tony Parry, David Tutt, Anthony Harris

During the following years the club grew and prospered with several members joining the Summer tour of croquet tournaments around the British Isles and often bringing back silverware demonstrating their successes. [See below]

David Tutt and George Woolhouse display their trophies

In the mid-90’s the then current world champion was a member and more recently, one of the club’s founder members and present chairman, Duncan Hector, has developed his game to the point where he can take on the world’s top players, and was last year selected to represent England in a match against a strong Irish team.