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Post by timbo on Jul 28, 2010 7:02:56 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2010 9:08:55 GMT
26,000 to see us play at Brisbane Road on Good Friday? Well Leyton Orient did win the league that season.
Plenty about Ted Calland, one of three brothers from County Durham who played for Torquay in the 1950s. Does anybody know what happened to them afterwards? Did they return to the North East or remain in South Devon? I’ve seen the name Calland in local papers over the years and always assumed an association.
For his part Gerry Cakebread, Brentford ‘keeper, worked for the Hydrographic (along with an Orient desperado occasionally mentioned on this site) and lived in Taunton until his death last year. He played in Taunton’s Western League championship winning side in the late 1960s.
Sixteen goals for the reserves? We’ve covered that one already....
And the Calder Cup is a memory of the old Wednesday league. The Royal Signals would have been based at Denbury.
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Post by stefano on Jul 28, 2010 9:12:46 GMT
Plenty about Ted Calland, one of three brothers from County Durham who played for Torquay in the 1950s. Does anybody know what happened to them afterwards? Did they return to the North East or remain in South Devon? I’ve seen the name Calland in local papers over the years and always assumed an association. Ralph Calland was my manager when I had a short stint with Brixham United in the early 1970's. He lived in the grounds of Cricketfield Road sports ground in Torquay. |
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Post by merse on Jul 28, 2010 9:25:23 GMT
26,000 to see us play at Brisbane Road on Good Friday? Well Leyton Orient did win the league that season.
Plenty about Ted Calland, one of three brothers from County Durham who played for Torquay in the 1950s. Does anybody know what happened to them afterwards? Did they return to the North East or remain in South Devon? I’ve seen the name Calland in local papers over the years and always assumed an association.  Surely you're old enough to remember those boring, boring Good Fridays of old, Barty? Surely the grimmest day of the year with feck all to do thanks to the legacy from the aforementioned Victorian imposition of Christianity so that the whole of society had to plunged into some sort of faux mourning. The chance to piss off to the football was too much of a temptation for any red blooded male who railed against being made to sit around being gloomy, yet these days any Friday afternoon game around the O's would more clash with Friday prayers in the many mosques around Brizzers wouldn't they.  I can recall some fruit cake Good Friday custom in boyhood NA whereby the market square had to be barriered off on a Good Friday. Jesus, those of us who sneaked into the traditional Herald Cup Finals at the Rec must have been risking eternal damnation!  Those Callands are Torquay legends Barty, I'm surprised you haven't cottoned onto the FACT that elder brother Ralph was later the groundsman and resident of the Barton Cricket Ground at Cricketfield Road whilst Ted and Albert both became well known taxi drivers about town and continued to play in local football well after their professional careers ended ~ for Torquay Taxis FC even in the now defunct Torquay Wednesday League! |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2010 10:18:52 GMT
Those Callands are Torquay legends Barty, I'm surprised you haven't cottoned onto the FACT that elder brother Ralph was later the groundsman and resident of the Barton Cricket Ground at Cricketfield Road whilst Ted and Albert both became well known taxi drivers about town and continued to play in local football well after their professional careers ended ~ for Torquay Taxis FC even in the now defunct Torquay Wednesday League! Thanks for that, Merse. I think it's having seen - and heard - the name "Calland" around Torquay over the years that always made me think they were good old Hele or Ellacombe boys. It was only when I realised their origins - almost age and geographical contemporaries of Bobby Robson in the case of Albert and (especially) Ted - that I started to have my doubts about a continued South Devon connection I may have imagined. Barry Hugman's book records that Ted Calland died in 1995. Ralph very much the elder brother - born 1916 to Albert's 1929 and Ted's 1932. And, to fit in with the Barton CC link, my 1965 Kelly's has Ralph living at 51 Barton Road. |
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Post by jmgull on Jul 28, 2010 15:10:34 GMT
Still a Calland playing for Barton CC these days.........Damon, who is also in charge of the youth set up there.
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Post by Budleigh on Jul 28, 2010 19:30:50 GMT
Plenty about Ted Calland, one of three brothers from County Durham who played for Torquay in the 1950s. Does anybody know what happened to them afterwards? Did they return to the North East or remain in South Devon? By coincidence the following programme popped through my door in the post this morning... It's pretty self-explanatory, and I'm going to get it up in the Programme Room as soon as possible, but there is Albert Calland in the Bideford line-up playing against his old team, Torquay United, in the Western League Cup in August 1956 with a most complimentary write-up in the programme notes. He is recorded as returning to the North-East after playing for United where he joined Spennymoor United but obviously decided to return to Devon, although according to the notes in the United programme above he was playing for Weymouth four months before this Bideford game so obviously joined them from the Terras. Note another United old-boy in their line-up. |
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Post by timbo on Jul 28, 2010 21:10:50 GMT
Plenty about Ted Calland, one of three brothers from County Durham who played for Torquay in the 1950s. Does anybody know what happened to them afterwards? Did they return to the North East or remain in South Devon? By coincidence the following programme popped through my door in the post this morning... It`s that `BIDERFORD` one I saw on some auction site. |
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Post by Budleigh on Jul 28, 2010 21:17:27 GMT
That be that there one..!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2010 22:00:05 GMT
The Bideford programme: Bill Harrower? Now was Steve Harrower, the one-time Exeter and Yeovil player, Bill's son?
Braddicks furnishers still going strong.
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