Dedicated Town fan in Australia
I have followed Town for 60 years, watched Bannister, Crossley and Wallace as a kid, grew up with Arthur Rowley banging them in at the Tech end, shared the joys and disappointments of Pountney, Wood and Starkey.
I refer to a recent article "Sales of stadium bricks a success". The last paragraph of which states: "Buying a brick has captured people's imagination across the world as they have been sold in Texas, Iceland and France". A whole "New World" exists if you just spin the globe.
I have followed Town for 60 years, watched Bannister, Crossley and Wallace as a kid, grew up with Arthur Rowley banging them in at the Tech end, shared the joys and disappointments of Pountney, Wood and Starkey, mercilessly heckled opposition players in the 60s, travelled to Peston and London to watch FA cup ties and marvelled at the greatest Town player of them all, Peter Broadbent.
I sat up and listened to the Town game against Aldershot at Stoke.
So to broaden the horizon of local Town fans (and I include those in Texas, Iceland and France), and of Shropshire Star staff and readers I would like it acknowledged that a certificate for a Town brick adorns my office wall, to the envy of all my staff, in Quirindi, New South Wales, Australia.
The article does say that the bricks will be laid next month and so I am looking forward to visiting the New Meadow Stadium in early July this year and viewing the brick from the "land down under".
Robert Lewis, Australia
