12 August - The Vickers Crayford and Dartford Athletics ground
If I remember correctly, Daniel Francis MP ran some sort of campaign earlier this year to keep
the VCD football team alive. Football is not my thing and I didn’t take
much notice but the team did indeed cease to be because there was no agreement on a lease renewal.
The VCD football ground in Crayford.
Yesterday evening a resident whose house overlooks the ground told me he had woken up to find a
JCB ripping up trees at the VCD site.
Bexley’s Planning Portal is not designed to be helpful and does not reveal any
applications for VCD Athletics in Old Road Crayford but we all know what JCBs without
planning permission can mean. I went to take a look.
There was a JCB working in the distance and it appears on the extreme right of
Photo 2 below but probably not clear enough to see. (A tiny patch of yellow.) I was not able to get any closer
because I was immediately assaulted by a bearded gentleman.
He grabbed my arms, punched me in the back and very nearly wrestled me to the
ground. For a long time he kept hold of my camera trying to throw it to the
ground but the strap held. The struggle produced seven photographs of terra-firma.
I was a See You Next Tuesday and he wanted to cut my F**ing head off.
A man in a black shirt showed up who I at first assumed was coming to my rescue but I was
wrong. Except that he didn’t touch me he was no better than beardie.
As is the way with some of these bearded gentlemen he informed some mothers with children
who were near the exit to the ground, that I was assaulted for trying to take photographs of their
children. Why is child molestation so often the first thought of such people?
They have claimed the same before.
I must now try to prove the obvious link to you know who. At least
I don’t think they were out to kill me this time.
Beardie didn’t appear to have his knife with him.
