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Post by timbo on Sept 18, 2013 20:20:50 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2013 20:49:46 GMT
When we talking about our most regular opponents there would have been a time when we played Halifax virtually every season. That was before they were relegated from the Football League. Back again in 1998 but only for four seasons; we last encountered them in the Conference when the old club (they've since reformed) was almost on its' last legs. What price us ever visiting the Shay again?
Deep in the manager's notes is a reference to Mick Darrell of Birmingham City who will not be joining Torquay United. That was no lie. He didn't. Instead he had a couple of loans at Newport and Gillingham before making a permanent move to Peterborough. Two in-and-out seasons at London Road and he was playing for Bilston Town, his home town club, at the age of twenty-six.
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Post by stefano on Sept 19, 2013 15:34:27 GMT
When we talking about our most regular opponents there would have been a time when we played Halifax virtually every season. That was before they were relegated from the Football League. Back again in 1998 but only for four seasons; we last encountered them in the Conference when the old club (they've since reformed) was almost on its' last legs. What price us ever visiting the Shay again?
Deep in the manager's notes is a reference to Mick Darrell of Birmingham City who will not be joining Torquay United. That was no lie. He didn't. Instead he had a couple of loans at Newport and Gillingham before making a permanent move to Peterborough. Two in-and-out seasons at London Road and he was playing for Bilston Town, his home town club, at the age of twenty-six.
Plus a young Stefano being listed in the programme for the very first time a week after his Western League debut after two unused and unwanted sub trips away to Bridport and Weymouth! Must stop talking about myself in the 3rd person .... sound like the Queen!  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2013 16:54:23 GMT
Plus a young Stefano being listed in the programme for the very first time a week after his Western League debut after two unused and unwanted sub trips away to Bridport and Weymouth! Must stop talking about myself in the 3rd person .... sound like the Queen! Bennett, Benson and Binney.....what a triumvirate! |
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Post by Jon on Sept 19, 2013 21:59:29 GMT
A butcher's at no. 44. We used to live at no. 47. Checking out Google maps, I wonder if Irvine Nott managed to sell our chip shop. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2013 11:07:20 GMT
More from Bill in the Halifax programme: references to the Torquay gymnasium, Pugsley's restaurant, the Royal Theatre, the Baths Salons and the Albert Hall make Torquay sound an interesting place. But Bill didn't seem that impressed being at pains to say there was "little in the nature of counter attractions" to distract the boys from pressing footballing matters. Not sure about "myoramas" - a Victorian magic lattern show perhaps?
A reference to Sgt Major Tomney who we've encountered before. "A stickler for training" writes Bill. There's been recent mention of him in the Herald Express through a letter from his great-great-granddaughter. Tomney sounds a real army man: born 1849; joined up in 1863; served in various roles until finally being deemed too old not far short of his sixtieth birthday. An obituary remembered how he "imparted all his excellent knowledge of physical training at various gymnasiums".
And Bill is right about Gilbert Winget dying in the Great War. We may have mentioned this before but his name is recorded on the war memorial at Cockington church: 12th Lancers, France 1914 (see a website called Grave Encounters).
Move quickly and you might pick up a childhood picture of Gilbert at sensationpress.com. Gilbert and his sister at the Mayor of Torquay's children's fancy dress ball 1897; Gilbert is dressed as the Cavalier Charles II.
Of more interest, you'd imagine, is a 1901/02 Torquay United team photograph priced at £450 on sportspages.com. Taken by Frederick Kitto.
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