NEWS HOUND

Thanks go to Ann Boulton for information about the Grimsby Town CC dog, photographed before play on Sunday at Augusta Street. Ann reports: "The hound's name is Molly, she is about 10-years-old and she belongs to Dave Blackburn, the groundsman, who told me a couple of weeks ago when we were at Grimsby that if it's raining she refuses to go with him and stays at home!"
The dog is much better behaved than the cows used to be in my days playing for Brocklesby Park. They used to surround cars parked near the ancient pavilion and often brush up against them. Wing mirrors were especially vulnerable.
There was no greater sin in those days than failing to close the gate after you, when entering the ground. If the cows had got out it could have meant big problems.
Cows going for milking at tea-time at East Halton's former Townside Farm ground were mentioned, briefly, in a previous posting.
Cricket grounds have had their fair share of God's creatures. I recall, many years ago, guesting for South Kelsey in a Grimsby League Sunday match at Ross Sports and encountering a house martin's nest, full of chicks, in the scorebox.

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