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)
“One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requires a love of memory. To remain in touch with the past requires a constant imaginative effort.”
—Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962)