Test Match Victories
Childhood - Playing Out
Year: 1954 Item #: 560 Views: 4,355 Comments: 2
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Test Match Victories may be won on the 'playing fields' off the Caledonian Road in North London, but it would be better for the children if the stumps were set in green fields.
Source: Picture Post. August 7, 1954
Comments by Matthew on 4th September 2011
What luxury to have a set of stumps. We had to make do with a lamp post.
Comments by Robert Taylor on 16th December 2010
Playing out was the big thing. I'm not sure how many people would use that phrase now. I remember playing out from lunchtime to dusk. You just turned up at home before it got dark. We went for miles. Amazing, it would not happen now.
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