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Aggers Bowls Us Over As He Opens Our Sports Hall

We were delighted to welcome England test cricketer and Test Match Special commentator Jonathan Agnew to Town Close earlier this term to conduct the official opening of our wonderful new sports hall. Aggers, as he is affectionately known to all BBC Test Match Special listeners, was clearly impressed by what he called ‘this state of the art facility’. He told the journalists interviewing him that our children were extremely fortunate to have such a building and expressed the hope that they would not take it for granted but would make the most of it.

Before unveiling the plaque, Aggers spoke at length to our girls and boys and answered a wide range of excellent questions from the youngsters. He told them he remembered playing cricket here as an eight year old in shorts. ‘My abiding memory is that the ground was so small that you were not allowed to hit sixes, they only counted as fours’. That pitch is only used for cricket nets nowadays and is alongside the new sports hall.

Sports Hall Construction

The images below show the construction of the sports hall