A Meeting in March resolved the Club be re-named The Bradshaw Cricket Tennis and Bowling Club. This was ratified at the subsequent Annual General Meeting. Also a bridge built by members had been constructed over the river at the tennis court end of the ground, and was opened by Dr. Cosgrave in April.

The ensuing year saw a certain amount of ground levelling and a small rail erected round the perimeter of the ground along the river bank, which at that time possessed no trees. It was also deemed advisable to make a footpath between the tennis courts and cricket ground.

Gate money and subscriptions continued to take care of the professional and various unsatisfactory groundsmen, who were employed and dismissed.

1914 was to be Silcock's last with the club. He left his mark in that he batted more innings, scored more League runs, bowled more overs, took more wickets (661) and held more catches than any professional had done before or has done since for the Bradshaw Club.

Before the onset of the season W. C. Dakeyne, again Club captain after a year as vice-captain to Peter Roscoe, offered to purchase caps for the first team, and expressed a desire to incorporate the President, Major Hardcastle's Coat of Arms in the form of a badge. There are three towers depicted on the shield of the 'arms' of Thomas Hardcastle, and another as the crest. The top left-hand shield tower sports four crenels, whilst the top right-hand one, and the crest tower have three. The bottom central tower on the shield has only two.

The secretary promised to interview Major Hardcastle, and, although there is no further minute, a compromise must have been reached, and the two crenelled tower or castle at the base of the shield, beneath which the motto "stabilis" is inscribed on a scroll, and which together comprise the lower part of the Coat of Arms, was taken as the Club's own signia.

Then at the end of the season, on 16th August, it was considered prudent to cancel the annual friendly home and away fixture between the second team and Hawkshaw Lane C.C.

The war was in its second week.

Cricket was to continue throughout the war, although without professionals during the later years. Many junior clubs were forced to drop out of the competition, and one senior club, Egerton, resigned after playing in 1916 without a single victory. The same year Bradshaw contributed two unenviable statistics to the Bolton & District Association's 94 years of records, by firstly being dismissed for 7 at Farnworth Social Circle, and later in the season at Farnworth allowing J. H. Hodgkiss, Bolton Wanderers goalkeeper, to have his name perpetuated by assisting in his feat of nine successive 4's - 36 runs.

It was before the commencement of the 1919 season that Bradshaw's A.G.M. decided that because the General Committee, now comprising all members of all three sections, had become unwieldy, three delegates from each section, together with the Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer would act as a Management Committee; a similar state of affairs, to that which exists today.

1920 marked the beginning of ten years of frustration felt by the better supported teams. The Bolton & District Cricket Association increased the League by re-introducing Egerton and including Hindley Green. This extension was looked on unfavourably by the more ambitious clubs who were seeking a higher standard, and before the 1921 season (after three Annual General Meetings of the Association and several suggestions for improvement) it was agreed to form two leagues, East and West, ostensibly to have two first divisions. The reality was that the old first division became the East section, with the exclusion of Hindley Green and Little Hulton and the inclusion of Kearsley.

The top teams in each section were to play for the championship, and for the first time the Cross Cup would be contested between all clubs on a knock-out basis.

Meanwhile Bradshaw C.C. under the supervision of two committee men, and with the help of numerous members, had extended the pavilion by adding a duplication of the existing one. The building was opened by Lt. Col. H. M. Hardcastle, when Kearsley were the visitors on 30th April 1921, and was to stand for 52 years, before being dismantled in 1973.

Twelve months later on 29th April 1922 Lt. Col. Hardcastle dedicated the ground to the cricket club in memory of the members who had fallen in the Great War. In a magnanimous gesture the Colonel had, a few weeks before on the 11th of March, legally agreed to donate the ground to the cricket club, and have trustees appointed to secure permanently the use of the ground for the cricket club. A memorial stone was unveiled at the dedication on which each member's name was inscribed. Kearsley were again the visitors, and each year since on the date of the Bradshaw v. Kearsley match, the captain of each side has placed a wreath on the memorial at a ceremony during the tea interval.

It was on the dedication day that Billy Fletcher played the first of the 476 innings he was to record for the club in a continuous spell that lasted for more than a quarter of a century. That he was captain for sixteen of these years is testimony to the esteem in which he was held.