My husband, Roy Read, who has died aged 91, was an accomplished allotmenteer, a keen amateur cricketer, a committed member of the Labour party and a sales rep in the chemicals industry who travelled the country working for Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI).
Cricket was Roy’s main hobby. He was a fast bowler for the ICI team and the highlight for him was going to the 1982 Test match in Barbados and meeting such players as Clive Lloyd, Viv Richards and Joel Gardner. Latterly, he was a supporter of his local team, Woodbank, in Bury, Lancashire.
Gardening was another passion and between 1969 and 1989 he ran three allotments at once, keeping
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