My Grandad

A Memory of Sunderland.

My mother used to tell me about my grandad richard field he was a footballer in hes younger days and he used to play for norwich city football club He was allso the head foreman in doxford s shipyards in pallion But my mother told me that on a new years eve when the clock was going to chime 12 to see the new year in the men would race alone farcett street to get from one end of the street before chimes finished I can allso remember standing out side of binns store for the trays of strawberrys there used to sell there were the best strawberrys i ever had

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