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Post by Jon on Jul 25, 2010 23:00:30 GMT
There's also a reference to a game against a Moorland XI a few years previously. What was that all about? 30/07/84 A v Moorland XI W 7 - 0 The match was played at Ashburton. The Moorland XI had players from Ashburton, Buckfastleigh, Ilsington and Liverton. No mention of Chagford! |
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Post by jmgull on Jul 26, 2010 1:13:00 GMT
I'm going with Merse.......it does look like Chagford. One of the very best grounds in Devon. Yes, it is Chagford and I think I'm right in saying that a lot of work was done on the ground around twenty years ago. Apparently you can fit two football pitches either side of the square and the football club's facilities were good enough for them to be founder members of the Devon County League in 1992. They played at that level for four seasons and now, for the new season, are making the switch from the South Devon League to the Devon & Exeter League. Torquay United paid a visit to Chagford in 1991. Perhaps this was to celebrate the new facilities? The TUFC history site records it thus: 17/07/91 A v Chagford W 6 - 0 Loram, m Holmes, Hall, Moore, Dobie, Whittington There's also a reference to a game against a Moorland XI a few years previously. What was that all about? 30/07/84 A v Moorland XI W 7 - 0 .....It must be twenty years or so since the huge amount of work was completed, i played in a game there for a Devon lge XI against Chagford at about that time which i guess was celebrating the opening of the very impressive pavillion........which included a fitness suite and a full size snooker table in the bar. At the time, all the talk was that the county were going to play the majority of their matches there...........sadly, the staging of the big games in this county have been very east devon biased for a few decades now. |
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Post by stuartB on Jul 26, 2010 22:50:15 GMT
A Scottish castle that one of our members, at least, should recognise but where and why?  loads more photos to follow  |
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Post by romfordkev on Jul 27, 2010 6:39:21 GMT
That'll be DOUNE CASTLE - famous for the film "Monty Python And The Holy Grail".
Hope those Frenchies weren't catapulting large cows over the castle walls at those "English Pig - Dog Types" when you were there!!
When I visited Doune, I spent an hour or so watching some local angler extracting rather large salmon from the river that skirts around the bottom of the castles grounds.
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Post by stuartB on Jul 27, 2010 20:37:33 GMT
well done, Kev, that was quick. I will put up more pictures from this great castle including Herbert's Room. "One day, lad, all this will be yours!" "what the curtains!!"
sorry if you haven't a clue what I'm on about
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Post by stuartB on Jul 27, 2010 20:42:19 GMT
try this one  same question: where and what is its significance? |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2010 8:48:46 GMT
I reckon this one is Castle Stalker but I've cheated in attempting to find out. Nor can I claim to have remembered it from when I passed by nearly forty years ago. That was on an Embankment Tours trip not so long after my father died. One memory of that trip is signing the visitors book at Kilmartin Church (between Oban and Lochgilphead) and seeing that someone from my year group at school had been there the day before. I expect he was practising his subjunctives in the back of his parents' Dormobile. It's a long way from Canvey isn't it? |
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Post by stuartB on Jul 28, 2010 20:08:40 GMT
It is indeed Castle Stalker or to us Monty Python fans it is Castle Aaaaargh which is in the final scene of Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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Post by stuartB on Jul 28, 2010 20:38:51 GMT
where is this colesseum look alike?  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2010 20:42:46 GMT
Oban!
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Post by stuartB on Jul 28, 2010 20:50:25 GMT
oh dear, I guess the street sign gives a big clue ;D. yes but what is it? |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2010 21:18:15 GMT
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Post by stuartB on Jul 28, 2010 21:22:07 GMT
nice one |
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Post by stuartB on Jul 28, 2010 21:24:18 GMT
try this one  where and what is it's significance? |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2010 21:32:10 GMT
First visited Oban in 1971 and stayed in the Esplanade Hotel. My mother, as was her wont, soon inspected the fire exits and was none too impressed. Exactly two years later ten people died in a fire at that hotel. Like ourselves they were on a coach tour from the South West. The military memorial? Something "Bridge"....where's my map?....SPEAN BRIDGE! I'll need to cheat for the rest but it gives me a chance of recommending the excellent Undiscovered Scotland site, in this instance: www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/speanbridge/speanbridge/Love going to Scotland and would consider moving there - certain parts anyway - if I had the opportunity. Best trip was to Orkney and Shetland. Wonderful places and, should you go in the summer, you'll find it's the football season (cue my most northerly game - in Lerwick!). |
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