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Welcome to Newbery "The Home of Quality"
You have found the home of John Newbery Ltd, World renowned bat makers of truly great tradition, expertise and craftsmanship, based in the County Ground, Hove in East Sussex.
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You have found the home of John Newbery Ltd, World renowned bat makers of truly great tradition, expertise and craftsmanship, based in the County Ground, Hove in East Sussex.
At Newbery we can trace our bat-making heritage back to the early 1900s when the Newbery family first made cricket bats in Robertsbridge, East Sussex. John Newbery’s father, Len, was a bat-maker and partner of Nicolls Bats (later to merge with Grays of Cambridge and become Gray-Nicolls) who had made bats since the time of W G Grace.
Len’s skills were handed down to his only son John, who founded John Newbery Ltd, in 1981. John’s legendary reputation as a master bat-maker quickly spread throughout the world, as did his innovative designs. This all took place against a background of failing health, which led to his early death in 1989.
His senior craftsman Tim Keeley is today the Master Bat-maker of Newbery, using the same skills to produce cricket bats that John passed on during their years together. The philosophy remains the same - that quality, performance and style comes first.