Through The Barricades

A local villager who lovingly cares for and funds out of his own pocket the now new football pitch, on the old site, of the now defunked Hale Cricket Club, is having to resort to erecting man made barricades to keep out motorbikes and quad-bikes from tearing up his hard work.

The village website caught with the local chap on Friday 11th and Saturday 12th of September, while he was attending to the football pitch he has spent several years now maintaining and marking out for local kids to play football on.  During Saturday morning I caught up with him while he was marking out the pitch and he explained the efforts he had put in to keeping the pitch in good order, along with the man made barricades he has had to erect to prevent his work from being ruined by joyriders on motorbikes and quad-bikes accessing the land.

Below you can see in the photo-grid the man-made barricade that’s now been erected to prevent further damage being caused to the land in general which now accommodates a football pitch.  You can see the old cricket side screen on it’s side, in a gap in the fencing along with broken branches off trees dragged into gaps and a new barbed wire fence he has paid for out of his own pocket- for which has been cut in several places on purpose by people trying to gain access to estate land.  He said he is not trying to keep the dog walkers off as they are kind enough and considerate to pick litter up around the site, but he is trying to prevent further damge to the site from quads and bikes etc!

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