Once a cricket field
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Once a cricket field
Image: © John Sutton Taken: 24 Jun 2025
This part of Thackeray's Lane Recreation Ground was once a rather small cricket ground, where Woodthorpe CC played home games. The straight boundaries were short, and it was here, as a teenager in the 1960s, that I hit my first ever straight six, into one of the gardens opposite. Those houses are on Park Road.
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Image Location
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52.994058
Longitude
-1.135995