A match between Ludlow and Bromyard was played on 29 October 1898.
This was the age of the train: all these early matches involved train travel which presented both problems and pleasures. Arrival time reduced the Bromyard game on the 29 October 1898, for instance, to twenty minutes each way. But for their return journey the Bromyard team chose a train which did not get them home until midnight.
One presumes that a very good time was had by all, and perhaps envies the togetherness which train travel promoted when compared to those modern team trips on which travel is in separate private cars.
Source: The History of Ludlow HC.
