The contrast between the two images could not have been more stark.
One showed a quintessentially English sporting pavilion complete with a traditional cricket scoreboard, balcony and large clock overlooking neat playing fields, evoking warm beer and the sound of leather on willow.
The other, taken some two decades later, showed the same building as a derelict ruin, surrounded by shoulder-high weeds and covered in graffiti, evoking urban decline and dereliction.
The ruinous state of the plainly once smart building and its surroundings provoked astonishment and anger when it was posted on social media earlier last week – the initial post alone notching
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