A LAVENDER Hill field, notoriously known as a “battlefield” due to gang-related violence and bloodshed, is seeing its reclamation by residents.
Every Tuesday, community worker Mark Anthony Nicholson, 54, assisted by a team comprising family members and residents, gathers more than 30 senior residents on the field, situated along Blode Street, for fitness exercises followed by board games at Nicholson’s home nearby, all while reminiscing about the good times past.
“I feel very good about it because at home we don’t exercise so when we come here, we do it and we enjoy what we’re doing at the club,” one of the senior participants, Phyllis Edwards, said.
“At home, we’re mostly indoors and we don’t go out or anything but when we come here, we talk to each other. We’re…