Dickie Bird Dickie Bird Harold Dennis "Dickie" Bird, (born 19 April 1933, Staincross, West Riding of Yorkshire, England) is a retired English international cricket umpire. In February 2014, Yorkshire announced that Bird is to be voted in as the club's president at their Annual General Meeting on 29 March. The son of a miner, he gained the nickname 'Dickie' at school. He lives in the South Yorkshire village of Staincross. Bird failed his 11-plus and went to Raley Secondary Modern School, leaving in 1948 at the age of 15. For a while, he worked at a coal mine on the surface, but
Denby Dale Pies of the move. Ten years after the end of the First World War, a belated victory pie was created to raise funds for Huddersfield Royal Infirmary. In 1964, another was baked to celebrate the year's four royal births, though the event was marred by tragedy as four of the main organisers were killed in a car crash on returning from filming a program about the pie at the ITV Studios. In 2000, a special Millennium Pie was baked, serving over 22,000 people. The first slice was cut by well-known cricket umpire Dickie Bird. In time for the UK's National Pie