Post by Budleigh on Mar 8, 2010 9:48:21 GMT
This is the original 'Torquay United Football Annual, Golden Jubilee Number, 1948/49' which contained 'a history of the club since 1898' and it’s origins as written by founder member Bill Luscombe. Although this history has since been printed in the later Official Centenary History of 1999 by Leigh Edwards I thought it would be good to show it in it’s original form, especially with the extra’s that come with it, cover, adverts, foreword etc.
A good friend of mine will be especially pleased to see an advert from the family business he now owns and to note that even back in those immediate post-war days the family were supporters of the club.
As has been mentioned elsewhere, the account relayed in this handbook is very much one man’s memory, backed up by paperwork and stories from his contemporaries, so there are a number of ‘facts’ that aren’t exactly as we now know them. The main one being the meeting at which the club was formed was in 1899, not 1898 as Luscombe states.
But to give the club some credit, and despite the dates in it’s title, this handbook wasn’t actually published until 1949 as can be noted by the results list which shows the first half of the season already having been played.
I have the pages on here as placed in the book, so adverts will appear as if they would when turning the page.
(This is a long one, eighty pages, so may take a little time to load.)
A good friend of mine will be especially pleased to see an advert from the family business he now owns and to note that even back in those immediate post-war days the family were supporters of the club.
As has been mentioned elsewhere, the account relayed in this handbook is very much one man’s memory, backed up by paperwork and stories from his contemporaries, so there are a number of ‘facts’ that aren’t exactly as we now know them. The main one being the meeting at which the club was formed was in 1899, not 1898 as Luscombe states.
But to give the club some credit, and despite the dates in it’s title, this handbook wasn’t actually published until 1949 as can be noted by the results list which shows the first half of the season already having been played.
I have the pages on here as placed in the book, so adverts will appear as if they would when turning the page.
(This is a long one, eighty pages, so may take a little time to load.)
