Graves Park

[tomytony]

I’ve great memories of Graves Park as a lad. Jumpers for goalposts footie on the grass slopes, chatting up the lasses after the park had closed for the night, walking from the Norton end to the London Road exit and back in the dark avoiding the warden, catching the ‘big’ fish on bread and line in the boating lake and transferring them to the tiny fishing pond where I learned how to fish, and the even odd scrap between rival gangs.

Ahh, dem wort days. Kids today don’t know what they’re missing.

Played cricket a few times at Graves Park and the pitches were quite close and the oufields overlapped so that you could be fielding at square leg and facing you would be a fielder from the other pitch fielding at point. You had to keep your wits about you and, if the fielder from the other game said 'duck' then you did sharpish as the ball could be coming at you at speed!
I always remember the opening bat from the overlapping pitch, he had a wooden leg, gave the ball a whack and ran faster than anybody else when going for his own runs.

Can't remember the name of the pub just down the road from the dressing rooms near the entrance though.

[GrayBlade]

Played cricket a few times at Graves Park and the pitches were quite close and the oufields overlapped so that you could be fielding at square leg and facing you would be a fielder from the other pitch fielding at point. You had to keep your wits about you and, if the fielder from the other game said 'duck' then you did sharpish as the ball could be coming at you at speed!
I always remember the opening bat from the overlapping pitch, he had a wooden leg, gave the ball a whack and ran faster than anybody else when going for his own runs.

Can't remember the name of the pub just down the road from the dressing rooms near the entrance though.

Do you mean the Sportsman TT?

[BlockD]

Do you mean the Sportsman TT?

Mount Pleasant?

[tomytony]

Do you mean the Sportsman TT?

Just been googling Gray and I think it's the Mount Pleasant on Derbyshire Lane, that's because it looks like the location I remember

[GrayBlade]

Just been googling Gray and I think it's the Mount Pleasant on Derbyshire Lane, that's because it looks like the location I remember

Yes Blocky was right TT. A cosy little pub, packed to the rafters with 20 clientele inside as I recall.