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Ronald Leedham: Cricket at Sevenoaks
Ronald Leedham was born in 1929 in India. His family moved back to England in 1931after Ronald contracted Polio. Ronald spent some years in Hospital as a young child after contracting Diptheria. When he was six he returned home to Catford for a short while to live with his father, eventually ending up living in ‘homes for crippled children’ run by the Shaftesbury Society, until he was sixteen.
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Here Ronald talks about playing cricket.
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Transcript
When we played cricket on the lawn at Sevenoaks, it was a great big lawn and we used to play cricket and all that sort of thing. If you couldn’t run you had a runner, if you fell over you got up and got on with life as per normal, like any other child.Explore more
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