Founded before 1850 the club played friendly matches on the Black Bull Field against such teams as Keighley, Bingley, Burnley, Blackburn and local Needle matches with the surrounding village teams.
The club moved to Harden Beck in 1866 and remained there until 1923, after which time they moved several times to, namely Black Bull Field in 1923, back to Harden Beck in 1927 and finally, via Black Bull Field again, to their present ground at Cuckoo Nest in 1935.
Harden’s junior section was originally established over 50 years ago with a U13, U15 and U17s. Participation in the last few years has been excellent and we believe this is because they can experience cricket from a young age in a family friendly environment. Most of our junior section have played in or are currently playing in senior cricket. Currently our 1st and 2nd team captains have come through the junior section since a very early age. In fact our eldest juniors to play at Harden are still playing today competing with our over 50s team.
Harden have always had a strong junior section up to about 4 years ago when we lost our U15s team. The club took the decision in November 2015 to establish a under 9s section which involved getting in touch with the local school to advertise our latest venture. The club was successful and we registered over 20 new juniors in 2016 and with the All Stars program now have over 50 juniors registered with the club.
We now have the following age groups U9s, U11s and U13s. Also we've several older juniors playing senior cricket with the 1st and 2nd teams.
They have been able to build on our junior section due to word of mouth of friends, family & the community.
