Childhood memories of Tom Graveney | Letters

With reference to your Tom Graveney obituary (5 November), I grew up in Bristol, living close to Tom’s family (there were four children – Ken, Tom, Maurice and Dorothy). We lived close to a range of school playing fields in the suburb of Westbury-on-Trym. Most of the groundsmen had been called up for war service, so we were free to play in the playing fields in the summer evenings without being driven out.Tom organised cricket, in whichever playing field was unsupervised, for a bunch