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Hello, my name is Geoff Farnell. I thought that you might like to know how the Blaby Boys Club was conceived. In 1955,after leaving Blaby C of E school, myself and one or two other pals who used to play for the school football team used to meet on the local park to have a kick about. Names that I remember were :Bill Holland, our goalie, Pete Clarke, Keith Kerridge and Alan Churchard /centre forward. Alan one day suggested that we might form a team and approach Blaby Imps to ask if the use of their pitch was a possibility. The reply was, if we were able to obtain our own goalposts, then they might allow us to. Spurred by this, we then went and told our parents. My mom, Rose Farnell, who was the proprietor of the newsagents D.J. Smith on the corner of John Street, gave us a large box of chocolates and three books of raffle tickets to take around the village to start to raise funds. I don't remember exactly what happened from there other than I think Alan's and my parents must have got involved, and we ended up with a Boys Club being run by a chap called Derek Hunt, who, I believe lived in James or West Street. My father Irvine(Irv) along with my mother and probably Alan's parents and some others, organized and ran the Blaby Boys Club Tote to raise funds. The Tote was drawn and checked each week in an upstairs room in the Bulls Head on the Lutterworth Road. Resulting years saw the now present club being built. It was opened by Frankie Vaughn who was presented with, as I remember, a Fly Fishing basket by my mother.
Good to see that you are still going strong! Geoff.
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