The "which famous person died today" thread

Bozzie said:
Another small piece of my childhood gone. He was a lovely bloke, taught us at the indoor cricket school behind the Golden Lion in Withington at the end of the 60’s. Despite being right handed I’m heavily left eye dominant and he used to go mad at me for always bowling round the wicket. What a fantastic Lancs team that was: Wood, Lloyd, Pilling and Clive Lloyd as good as any set of batsmen in the country.
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Lovely comment mate. I'm sure I heard the sound of those cricket school wickets springing behind me as I read it.

Peter was a great bloke and one of the few 'teachers' I paid any real attention to! He had a great career and was a great bowler in those fantastic Lancashire days.
 
Lavinda Past said:
Lovely comment mate. I'm sure I heard the sound of those cricket school wickets springing behind me as I read it.

Peter was a great bloke and one of the few 'teachers' I paid any real attention to! He had a great career and was a great bowler in those fantastic Lancashire days.
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A few years after that I ran onto the pitch at the close of play and asked him to sign a cricket bat for me. He looked at me and said “Don’t I know you?”. I walked off feeling ten feet tall.
 
Ah. That’s a shame, a great bowler and a lovely guy.

When I was a kid Lancs had a pre-season coaching session at the indoor nets at the real Old Trafford, which was for the children of members. My dad’s mate (who wasn’t a member) took his son and I to the session saying “Don’t worry, they’ll never check”.
I had dreams of being a fast bowler (and became one, albeit it at village-cricket level) and Peter Lever was running the net and giving advice. Part way through, some suit and tie from LCCC turned up with a clipboard and starting asking for the names of our membership-holding dads. We were busted. Thing was, the guy who took us had driven off (probably to the nearest boozer). When the suit had gone, Peter called us back over, said “Ignore him” and let us join back in for the rest of the session.
 
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Bozzie said:
Another small piece of my childhood gone. He was a lovely bloke, taught us at the indoor cricket school behind the Golden Lion in Withington at the end of the 60’s. Despite being right handed I’m heavily left eye dominant and he used to go mad at me for always bowling round the wicket. What a fantastic Lancs team that was: Wood, Lloyd, Pilling and Clive Lloyd as good as any set of batsmen in the country.
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Add Frank Hayes, Andrew Kennedy, Farook Engineer and David Hughes for a tasty top 7 plus 'Flat Jack' and Bob Ratcliffe....''Oh Lancy, Lancy....'
 
Bozzie said:
A few years after that I ran onto the pitch at the close of play and asked him to sign a cricket bat for me. He looked at me and said “Don’t I know you?”. I walked off feeling ten feet tall.
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Lovely stuff. Beats my story when we did the same after a Sunday League match and a very young Neil Fairbrother simply said to us, “Get off the fucking pitch”.
 
Lavinda Past said:
Lovely comment mate. I'm sure I heard the sound of those cricket school wickets springing behind me as I read it.

Peter was a great bloke and one of the few 'teachers' I paid any real attention to! He had a great career and was a great bowler in those fantastic Lancashire days.
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He was probably my late Grandfather's favourite cricketer, which was high praise indeed!
I remember that Lancashire team well as we had to have their games on every time possible. No escape for a 10 year old girl lol. Put up or shut up ;-)
 
Bozzie said:
Another small piece of my childhood gone. He was a lovely bloke, taught us at the indoor cricket school behind the Golden Lion in Withington at the end of the 60’s. Despite being right handed I’m heavily left eye dominant and he used to go mad at me for always bowling round the wicket. What a fantastic Lancs team that was: Wood, Lloyd, Pilling and Clive Lloyd as good as any set of batsmen in the country.
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I'm not a cricket fan myself but mentioned Peter Lever's death to my dad, because he always watched it religiously even if I never got into it.

My dad with other kids did cricket school at saint marks school every couple weeks maybe the same as you, along with a Mr Avery there who was that good he also trained with Lancashire in his spare time.
He'd go to the same indoor place behind the golden lion, said it's also near where "that thieving bastard Richard Madeley lived" in his own words.

Anyway he says Peter Lever was always a massive help there whenever offering any advice to improve, my dad himself said he was pretty good at bowling but terrible at batting so not much point going for more.
Peter Lever told him not to doubt himself and to carry on with Cricket as there's always room for improvement, as it turned out he didn't even though he had chances to carry on.

He loved cricket probably more than football back then my dad and despite me not caring for cricket, when I asked who Peter was his eyes gleamed as he told me and rolled off all the Lancashire cricket greats from back then.

Someone my dad knew called Charlie Richards managed to get him a trial, for Little Lever Cricket Club after his early learning days and they wanted him.
He was stubborn fucker though my dad and on top of the journey back then, flat out refused to pay any fee that would see him get kitted out for the uniform/gear.

My dad believed the club should've been supplying any gear needed themselves, personally though I reckon he thought it'd be much better spent on beer and weed.
 
Bozzie said:
Another small piece of my childhood gone. He was a lovely bloke, taught us at the indoor cricket school behind the Golden Lion in Withington at the end of the 60’s. Despite being right handed I’m heavily left eye dominant and he used to go mad at me for always bowling round the wicket. What a fantastic Lancs team that was: Wood, Lloyd, Pilling and Clive Lloyd as good as any set of batsmen in the country.
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Echoes my thoughts. I was brought up on that Lancs team in the early 70s and saw him at OT many times.
I also did the Withington nets where he and Jack Simmons used to outdo each other other with the strongest Lancastrian accent.
 
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