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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2011 8:41:07 GMT
It wouldn’t be like old Bill to let us down with his facts. Cassavetti, Camanzindi, no matter. What with Russian connections and black bears we’ve surely found Edwardian Torquay’s foremost exponent of t’ai chi. Do you have time for a location meet before we start work on the screenplay and casting?
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Post by Jon on Mar 20, 2011 20:55:30 GMT
The barracks – now known as Wyvern Barracks - are those on Topsham Road between county hall and Countess Wear. I got the bus home from Exeter yesterday and it came out of Exeter down Barrack Road! I could sense the ghosts of Torquay United footballers past! I saw the barracks on the left as you headed out of Exeter, but there were a lot of football pitches on the right (belonging to a school or college?). Barton, which side of the road do you think the Barracks' pitches were? Was the barracks a lot bigger in the early 1900s than it is now? I assume it must have been. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2011 22:50:49 GMT
I saw the barracks on the left as you headed out of Exeter, but there were a lot of football pitches on the right (belonging to a school or college?). Going down Barrack Road, the pitches on the right are those of Exeter School. "Playing Fields of England" stuff - somebody on this forum may have experienced "character building" in the three-quarters line on that very grass. I would have imagined that military activity would have been restricted to the angle of Barrack Road and Topsham Road. Nonetheless this map from 1888 offers a number of possibilities:  Slightly later, in another part of town, the words "infant school" appear towards the end of what was later to become a cowshed:  |
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Post by Budleigh on Mar 21, 2011 8:23:02 GMT
As a past pupil of Exeter School I did indeed engage in sport on those playing fields, mainly rugger and hockey, but also a little football. My natural sporting home, when not on the golf course, was the newly-laid artificial hockey pitch seen opposite the entrance to the R.D. & E. hospital and where I played left-back for school and county because, as my sports master so succinctly put it; 'you keep cool under pressure then hoof the ball when an opponent gets close, often taking the bugger's legs at the same time'.
And interestingly, as an army cadet whilst at school there I would often march down Barrack Road to visit the Devon & Dorset Regiment barracks for training. Indeed I had my 'Passing-out' on the vast parade-ground seen through the gates as you drive by. A view I look back on with some nostalgia every time I go into my Exeter office, and one I shall see in a few minutes time.
Sport at the school was taken very seriously and whilst I was there a new sports hall was built with some of the proceeds coming from the raffling of a football signed by Pele (shades of Argyle at present!). I remember how dispirited I felt missing out on winning that one. If I recall a couple of City players from that era's promotion winning side were part of the ceremony. Was it Hatch, Delve and the legendary Kellow? I forget...
As to the fields surrounding the school and barracks; within a few years of leaving in the late seventies houses at been built and the landscape changed...
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Post by Jon on Nov 30, 2011 22:19:29 GMT
It sounds Italian, but I always thought he must have been Mr Luscombe's "French amateur international" Henri Camanzindi (1899-1999 book, page 118). I suspect he was as much an international as Harold Tabernacle or Chris Roberts, but would love to be proved wrong. French /Italian, Camanzindi / Cassavetti, 1898/1899. Who cares as long as it makes a good story? Oh ye of little faith! Chalk one up for Mr Luscombe! Sticking an "international" in the reserves at left back shows the strength of the mighty TUFC in 1906 - or was Henri's agent an ancestor of Wes Saunders? Western Times Sat 31 Mar 1906 Devon, England FOOTBALL FIELD 777 Words Torquay United R (v. Ellacombe, at Barton Road. Torquay and District League).Yorke- Wood; Beer, Camanzindi; Hopkins, Durbin, Parke; Hurley, F. Bailey, Lewis, A. Bailey, Chaffe. |
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Post by ohtobeatplainmoor on Dec 1, 2011 20:58:11 GMT
.... Or Henri himself was an ancestor of Mo Camara - signed by someone other than the current manager of the day!
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Post by Jon on Dec 1, 2011 23:46:53 GMT
.... Or Henri himself was an ancestor of Mo Camara - signed by someone other than the current manager of the day! Funny you should say that. After he disappeared, legend has it that a young Chelston was often heard to say "Where's Henri?" |
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