AN old photograph of a football team has brought the memories flooding back for one Redditch resident.
The precious picture shows Elizabeth Peart’s father Tony Moran and his Terry’s AFC team mates, winners of the Terry’s Cup in the 1946-47 season.
“My father came to Redditch from Hartlepool, where he worked on the docks, and was the blacksmith at HDA for years,” said Batchley resident Elizabeth.
“I don’t know how he ended up playing for Terry’s but he always said that one of his claims to fame was that he made the shoes for Colonel Llewellyn’s horse at the Olympics,” she added.
Sir Harrry Morton Llewellyn was a British equestrian champion and riding ‘Foxhunter’, shoed by Elizabeth’s dad, he won Great Britain’s only gold as part of the team jumping event at the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki.
Elizabeth’s mum and dad met at Smallwood Hospital where she worked and Mr Moran was admitted as a patient.
“The photograph is so precious to me as it shows him with his friends and I have always kept it,” said Elizabeth.
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