British Football’s Greatest Grounds

[Laurel Lane Lamper]

Out this week and covering all levels of football. Yeltz Doc, for one, may find some connection in no.83

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[andy]

There's been a few good books about British and European grounds over the years, Simon Inglis as an author of the best. Does this book contain grounds as they are now or are there old grounds in there too?

[andy]

Actually as it says 'must see' on the cover I think I've answered my own question.

[Laurel Lane Lamper]

This book turns out to be well researched and written. From Workington to Hastings, Merthyr to Ramsbottom there are grounds with an association to HTFC.
Thoroughly enjoyable.
Andy mentions the excellent Simon Inglis, there’s an evening with the equally excellent Lee Child
https://www.fsoa.org.uk/an-evening-with ... nd-raiser/
Hopefully Small Heath won’t crop up

[Noggin]

More Yeltz connections, albeit tenuous. I knew that Lee Child attended the same primary school as me, but when I checked this before posting, I found out that he attended the same secondary school as Doc

[Laurel Lane Lamper]

Have you checked if Lee has named characters in his books after you.

[Noggin]

Never read one of his books :-) in any case, he had left long before I started there.

[Westyeltz]

Have you checked if Lee has named characters in his books after you.

I have.And I can confirm that they'm the wrung un's.

[YeltzDoc]

More Yeltz connections, albeit tenuous. I knew that Lee Child attended the same primary school as me, but when I checked this before posting, I found out that he attended the same secondary school as Doc

He did indeed. Perhaps not the writer that fellow alumnus J.R.R Tolkien was, but probably better than Jonathon Coe, whose "Rotter's Club" was loosely based on his time there, a book that I enjoyed not one jot.
I still haven't got over Frank suggesting that the one in Handsworth was the original though...

[pantverdant2]

More Yeltz connections, albeit tenuous. I knew that Lee Child attended the same primary school as me, but when I checked this before posting, I found out that he attended the same secondary school as Doc

He did indeed. Perhaps not the writer that fellow alumnus J.R.R Tolkien was, but probably better than Jonathon Coe, whose "Rotter's Club" was loosely based on his time there, a book that I enjoyed not one jot.
I still haven't got over Frank suggesting that the one in Handsworth was the original though...

I believe the great and grumpy Bill Oddie was an alumnae of both HGS and KEGS,and developed his love of birdwatching at Bartley Green Resa
whilst his mother was a patient at a local psychiatric hospital.

The story that resonates the most with me was when he directed the traffic off the A38 THROUGH the grounds of the School to the joy of his
fellow students and the frustrations of his masters,of course he could not do it today because Schools are like GCHQ and Colditz Castle rolled into
one and Big Brother is tracking every Traffic Cone!!