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Trevor was a Bfd streeter. Trevor's big brother, Alan, and I,walked to Parkwood School together, minding Trev who had a tenniser which he would dribble all the way over Station Bge and down Low Mill and along Parkwood Street defying us to take the ball from him. I lost contact when we went our separate ways in our early teens. Later (circa 1960)I was sitting on the front step on exam leave when he walked down the street and proudly flashed his Bfd City F.C. badge and blazer, having just signed as an apprentice. I heard that he often put on pre-match ball skill exhibitions before the kick-off at Valley Parade. He had a varied professional career with several 1st Div'n clubs - culminating in a Welsh International cap. His dad had moved north from Monmouthshire (then an English County) to play rugby league (at Lawkholme, I believe). After the Maud Redcliffe reform of local government, Trev qualified for Welsh representation and gained some wider recognition. In the '80s I worked with a PE teacher, a qualified FA coach, who had coached in the USA and had met and worked with Trevor there. I can't be precise over the date but on one occasion just before c 1987, on a visit to Keighley, I called in The Shoulder of Mutton(?) in Thwaites for a Sunday lunchtime pint. A footy team came in and with them was Trev. I approached him and before I could say a word he said "F#####g Hell, Terry Marston - do you remember when we used to watch the Test Matches on the telly at your house?" That was Trevor - never forgot his roots. He gave a lot back to the game especially in the Keighley area and probably, but for his untimely death, would have been recognised at a high level.
I played cricket against Duncan Townson(School v Old Boys-Lawkholme,1950), and that was 'very unpleasant',too. He hit me for two straight sixes over the KRLFC Stand in my second(and last)over!!!!I still have difficulty getting off to sleep at night!
Back to the Hockey brothers; Trevor and Alan had a younger brother, Mostin, who also died young. My eldest brother,Bob, tells me that Mostin worked at Dean, Smith & Grace and died of injuries sustained in a road accident, in his early 20's. A mosque now stands on the site of the family's former home in Bradford Street.