Dennis Williams
Gone but not forgotten
Belchers lane playing fields long before our time
Brilliant pic Bernie, as per...so, just boasting now. Played cricket there for Albert Road Primary, Stechford (1951-3), many times. Opened batting with old chum and near neighbour (Neston Grove) Johnny Finlan (later English International fly-half with Moseley), and followed by Neal Abberley, later of Warwickshire and England at No3. Yet all of us were considered inferior to our best player Clive Parr, of Parr's Grreengrocers, corner of Richmond Road opposite the Pub, and he went on to become a Vicar!! You never can tell can you...! But not bad for a tiny back street little school that also boasted Joan Armatrading as a near neighbour I suppose....proud history... happy memories galore...
Oddly enough, some fifty years later, I could lookout of the window of a Lab I used to work in at Heartless Hospital, to see the old sports field just derilict, and looking so sad from lack of use...probably will become a car park sooner or later for the ever expanding Hospital...there must be thousands of similar stories out there...?