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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2015 10:04:02 GMT
Yes, cracking pictures from 1992.
I've little recollection of this. I remember the demolition of the old popular side two years later but not this. My mother died a few weeks before these pictures were taken so I'm guessing my May 1992 visits to Torquay were taken up on other matters. Consequently I had no view of the new stand until the opening game of the next season which, I imagine, also represented the start of a match day routine which has continued to this day. Down on the train (from either Taunton or Exeter); a cuppa (near the harbour or in Babbacombe; often both); the game; back to the station afterwards. Always happily on foot; unfortunately however those Torquay hills become steeper each and every season.
And what of the future of Plainmoor? Michael Goulbourne had this to say in the current TUST newsletter:
"It is my firm belief that only the supporters of Torquay United should own the freehold of Plainmoor and work is already underway to determine what we have to do to achieve this."
I wonder if this will be one to watch over the coming weeks and years and how it might fit in with the new dynamics of the club once it is under fresh ownership?
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Post by johnh on Nov 9, 2015 17:25:47 GMT
QuotelikePost Options Post by rjdgull on Nov 30, 2014 at 8:52pm
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Parkhurst Road however is mainly 1920s built so not sure why that land wasn't available prior to the move back to Plainmoor?
Looking at the map again, the houses built in 1906 or shortly after would have been on Cricketfield Road itself - between the junction with Parkhurst Road and the junction with Barton Road.
Are those houses Edwardian?
Had a look on street view, the semis either side of Parkhurst Road with the single storey bay, to be fair, do look Edwardian. Will see if I confirm that....Apologies, I messed up the quoting... My parents live in Parkhurst Road and we were always under the impression the houses in that road were built by Lloyds Builders in the 1930s. Certainly at the top end, at least, as the houses in that road are not all standard semis - there is a hotpotch of different styles as you walk from the St Vincents Road end to Cricketfield Road, as the road slopes downwards. My parents lived in Parkhurst Road - no 33. I believe they are early 1930s. My grandparents bought one of the houses in Cricketfield Road from new. I believe this was in 1913, so they are not strictly Edwardian. |
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Post by rjdgull on Jul 21, 2016 7:12:29 GMT
This thread is quite topical again and worth another look as Jon detailed how Rev Percy Baker was involved in the ground in the decade prior to its purchase by the council in 1910. Developers were circling from as early as 1887 when the area was started to be developed and this was more or less completed between the world wars and as an example I remember looking at a house in Cary Park Road which was being sold on the original 99 year lease dating from about 1927 with the threshold still held by the Cary Estate!
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Post by rjdgull on Apr 5, 2020 7:09:45 GMT
link - in this lockdown period the club are revisiting the history of the club and its inception which is to be applauded. Much more information can be found both on this thread and the history room in general for anyone with an interest but never with much time on their hands before....,,
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Post by rjdgull on Apr 5, 2020 15:59:37 GMT
link - bit more on the second season and the move to the Rec as per Jon’s second post on this thread.
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Post by Jon on Apr 5, 2020 22:51:51 GMT
link - in this lockdown period the club are revisiting the history of the club and its inception which is to be applauded. Much more information can be found both on this thread and the history room in general for anyone with an interest but never with much time on their hands before....,, Hmmmm. This is just stuff pinched straight from the 1999 book. The bit on pages 6 to 11 of that book is what I wrote 35 years ago to the best of my knowledge then. The scores in the book where what I had at the time but mis-transcribed by Leigh Edwards. To make it worse, they have taken bits of the Luscombe narrative as if they were true! We could not play at home after March?? Yes we did. We played at Teignmouth Road on 7 April and 16 April (Easter Monday) 1900. The kit change was in 1901 not 1900. The excellent Greensonscreen has some properly researched history that includes this: www.greensonscreen.co.uk/argylehistory.asp?era=1901-1902_1The United Association Club of Torquay, the club formed in May 1899 and became Devon’s third professional League club as Torquay United, received an early mention in the Football Herald of the 28th September 1901. They had changed their shirts to Oxford and Cambridge blue squares for this season after last season's Red and White squares were rejected because, in the laundry, the darker colour bled into the other. |
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Post by Jon on Apr 5, 2020 22:54:59 GMT
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Post by Jon on Apr 5, 2020 22:57:13 GMT
and three guesses who was behind the nonsense about Torquay Town playing in the FA Cup in 1904! Mr Redwood is right. It was 1910.
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Post by rjdgull on Apr 6, 2020 0:17:51 GMT
Some great musings on the development of the ground from its earliest days as little more than a field! Thanks for digging that up.
1904? Surely it wasn’t Luscombe getting mixed up?
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Post by gullone on Apr 6, 2020 16:36:15 GMT
Some interesting stuff re early Plainmoor. A letter to the Herald 17 December 1970. That letter is a fascinating read....cheers Jon ! |
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Post by rjdgull on Apr 9, 2020 17:57:46 GMT
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Post by Jon on Apr 9, 2020 22:58:57 GMT
They have even swallowed the G.O.Smith story! No mention of the fictional Andrew McLuckie though. Anyone seen the English Game on Netflix? By Julian Fellowes in true WJ Luscombe fiction loosely based on fact style. |
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Post by rjdgull on Apr 19, 2020 8:53:14 GMT
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Post by Jon on Apr 19, 2020 16:22:32 GMT
Huge amount of misinformation in here! |
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Post by rjdgull on Apr 19, 2020 21:46:30 GMT
Huge amount of misinformation in here! Same source from before then, where you were similarly impressed with the accuracy. |
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