Speaker Fred Raffle. Host Peter Calvert

Tue, Oct 18th 2016 at 12:45 pm - 2:15 pm

Fred Raffle returned to the club after many years to talk about his life experiences as a blind person.

Speaker Fred Raffle. Host Peter Calvert -

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Fred was born in Blyth, went to junior school there, passed for the grammar school, but they would not take a blind pupil, so he went to a special school for blind pupils. He blossomed there, playing sport, particularly cricket. He went to university and later qualified as a teacher, working in London, where he set up a cricket tema for blind people. This sport expanded to well over 100 people who played matches against each other.

His love of cricket continued and a chance meeting with a Glamorgan player who was his bowling hero, led to him being invited into the commentary box for BBC and Sky. Over many years, he has toured with the England team to all the places where cricket is played, making many, many friends with players during their career and afterwards when they were in the commentary box. He had lots of amusing tales to tell and everyone thoroughly enjoyed his talk.

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