Carrington Sports Ground, Mansfield Road: the pavilion

Image: © John Sutton Taken: 23 Apr 2010

Now the Hyson Green & Carrington Sports Club, this long-established cricket ground was once the Nottingham City Police Training Ground, where I spent a fair amount of time as a child, watching my father play for the all-conquering Police side (all six-footers) which won the Notts Amateur League several times in the years after the War. In those days the low, green-painted wooden pavilion was long on charm (and Mrs Creswick's fine teas), but had more primitive facilities than its smart lottery-funded replacement. (There are fierce notices threatening trespassers with prosecution, so it should be recorded that I had been invited on to the ground for a Proustian moment or two.)

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