[3] Lawrence played for Southern League side Stourbridge before joining Shrewsbury Town of the Third Division.
[5] With 22 goals in 39 league games, he helped Len Walker's "Shots" to a fifth-place finish in the Fourth Division in 1983–84, though they were seven points short of Bristol City in the promotion zone.
[6] He became the first black player to represent Burnley when he debuted against Bradford City at Turf Moor on 24 November 1984.
Lawrence then signed with Peterborough United and scored eight goals in 33 league games in 1986–87 under John Wile and Noel Cantwell.
In January 1988, he moved to his seventh different Fourth Division club after putting pen to paper with Chris Turner's Cambridge United.
After 13 goalless league games in 1987–88 he departed the Abbey Stadium for Conference club Kettering Town.