Cricket Connection
Broadhalfpenny Down, a place of great significance in the history of cricket, got its name from the coin.
Read more about this topic: Halfpenny (British Pre-decimal Coin)
Famous quotes containing the words cricket and/or connection:
“All cries are thin and terse;
The field has droned the summer’s final mass;
A cricket like a dwindled hearse
Crawls from the dry grass.”
—Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)
“What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest person possesses when, in connection with nature and the world, he experiences himself as “man”!”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)