- Apr 5, 2014
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Having a conversation earlier, I recounted when I was young I used to use the hallway as a run-up to refine my bowling action for cricket. I would stand in the kitchen turning my arm over or throw a tennis ball against the bedroom wall and play strokes with a racket.
Decades later, when looking into my local area at The Keep, I discovered that before my parent's house was built the square actually formed part of the Queen's Park Cricket Ground. When I was pretending to be bowling in a Test match I may as well have been on the pitch itself.
There are very few references in historical documents, but if the place is of intrigue to cricket lovers I wrote a piece here:
https://queensparkchronicles.wordpress.com/2015/01/18/in-search-of-queens-park-cricket-ground/
Having this conversation again today I wondered if folk had ever found themselves in a strange situation that saw them engaging in an activity or re-enacting a scene that, unknowingly, had been relevant to the exact spot they were on decades before. Or even spookier had one of those cross-over moments when two periods of history overlap and people see into another time. (A weird time concept that even some scientists believe can happen).
Decades later, when looking into my local area at The Keep, I discovered that before my parent's house was built the square actually formed part of the Queen's Park Cricket Ground. When I was pretending to be bowling in a Test match I may as well have been on the pitch itself.
There are very few references in historical documents, but if the place is of intrigue to cricket lovers I wrote a piece here:
https://queensparkchronicles.wordpress.com/2015/01/18/in-search-of-queens-park-cricket-ground/
Having this conversation again today I wondered if folk had ever found themselves in a strange situation that saw them engaging in an activity or re-enacting a scene that, unknowingly, had been relevant to the exact spot they were on decades before. Or even spookier had one of those cross-over moments when two periods of history overlap and people see into another time. (A weird time concept that even some scientists believe can happen).
