St Johns Park Photo

A Memory of Burgess Hill.

I could easily be in the photo of people watching cricket at St Johns Park , Burgess Hill . I lived in the block of flats at the far end of the photo , behind the tall trees , from 1960 to 1964 . I was age 7 - 11 during those years . I watched the Burgess Hill cricket team play almost every Saturday they played at home . Sussex came to play Burgess Hill one Sunday and I remember blokes like Jimmy Parks , Alan Oakman and Ted Dexter smashing sixes everywhere , including one that smashed the windscreen of a car . I 'operated ' the scoreboard on occasions . They're fantastic memories for me . Allan Gardiner

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