GWR Cricket Club have discovered it's their centenary this year - thanks to an eagle-eyed member who chanced upon an old programme.

Club treasurer Wendy Langan discovered the 100-year-old document among some old papers in March.

It details a week of matches in Castle Bar Park marking the first year of the club's existence in 1909.

Wendy was so quick to seize on the discovery that she was just in time to mark the anniversary and has recreated a comparable set of fixtures, with six confirmed games, starting on August 23.

That is 100 years to the day when the club - created for railway employees - launched its cricket week as the Great Western Railway Athletic Association.

"We had no idea it was our anniversary until I found this old programme among a pile of papers, and it was perfect timing," Wendy told the Gazette.

"It gave me six months to organise some credible fixtures and we've done it.

"It's also an ideal way to publicise the club, which we want to do to attract new players - especially to our Colts team. It should be a great week."

The festivities at Vallis Way, West Ealing, begin with a 50-over match against Ealing Park.

The following day, a Twenty20 match is planned against Middlesex

Cricket Board coaches.

Other Twenty20 fixtures are planned between First Great Western (staff who operate the line which runs from Paddington to the

West Country) and a team of Parliamentarians.

That match on Tuesday 25 is followed by a game between GWR and a team put out by the QPR Trust

the following day. GWR then play Ealing and Acton police on the Thursday and Ealing Trailfinders Club, who share the venue, on the Friday.