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Post by Jon on Oct 10, 2012 20:37:39 GMT
Bumped into an interesting photo. Seems to be an unusual angle, can anyone help me get my bearings?  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2012 21:09:24 GMT
Seems to be an unusual angle, can anyone help me get my bearings? Looks too flat to be anywhere in Torquay! |
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Post by stefano on Oct 10, 2012 21:12:09 GMT
Seems to be an unusual angle, can anyone help me get my bearings? Looks too flat to be anywhere in Torquay! My first thought as well! Is that a church in the background? |
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Post by Jon on Oct 10, 2012 21:26:58 GMT
Looks too flat to be anywhere in Torquay! Plainmoor's always been flat - hence the name. But which way are we looking? |
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Post by Jon on Oct 10, 2012 21:27:36 GMT
Is that a church in the background? Or a vicarage? |
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Post by stefano on Oct 10, 2012 21:28:21 GMT
Looks too flat to be anywhere in Torquay! My first thought as well! Is that a church in the background? Of course I expect Jon knows so it's probably Barton Downs when it was a playing field on top of a big rock and not surrounded by houses!  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2012 21:36:29 GMT
So a pitch where the swimming pool is now? Have we discussed this before?
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Post by stefano on Oct 10, 2012 21:40:19 GMT
So a pitch where the swimming pool is now? Have we discussed this before? There was a pitch there when I was a pupil at Homelands. It was called the Cabbage Patch. No goal posts mind. Jumpers would suffice! |
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Post by Jon on Oct 10, 2012 21:54:29 GMT
So a pitch where the swimming pool is now? Have we discussed this before? I can't really work it out - hence the call for help. Do you think that is the vicarage? My first thought was that it was the main pitch and that the building must be further away than it looks. Would the Ellacombe end have been totally open as late as 1946? I think most of the really old photos I've seen show one of the other three sides of the ground. But it look as if the goalposts aren't where you'd expect them. Could it be a second pitch at right angles to the main one? |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2012 22:21:26 GMT
I really don't know, Jon. Had it not been for your suggestion of Plainmoor I wouldn't have thought it myself. If it's Plainmoor, I'm also surprised by the openness of the scene. I can't quite work out if there's a wall beyond the pitch railing nor whether that's part of the railings going off as a diagonal.
No longer being in a position to easily check out the appearance of the former vicarage, I've been on Google Street View. But, of course, the building has a relatively new extension which would have changed its appearance from sixty-odd years ago. Nor would it have been the "tin church" which was a more modest affair and in a place that would put that pitch into Marnham Road.
I follow Jon's logic that, if this is Plainmoor, this pitch is at right angles to the main pitch. But, if that's the vicarage, the pitch must have been directly behind the old cow shed and with the other goal hard on the school.
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Post by Jon on Oct 10, 2012 22:56:16 GMT
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Post by teignmouth54 on Oct 11, 2012 11:28:30 GMT
This picture is taken from the left of the goal in front of the old cowshed at the Ellacombe end and shows the open section along the Homelands Lane side of the ground. The original grandstand did not extend too far towards Ellacombe and is not shown in this picture. The extension to the grandstand was completed during the 1954/5 season.
On 21 January 2009, bartondowns posted an excellent article on torquayfansforum entitled "Football in Babbacombe", showing several old pictures of Plainmoor. One of these, from 1946, is taken from the same angle and includes part of the old grandstand. His posting is highly recommended.
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Post by teignmouth54 on Oct 11, 2012 11:40:42 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2012 11:44:21 GMT
This picture is taken from the left of the goal in front of the old cowshed at the Ellacombe end and shows the open section along the Homelands Lane side of the ground. The original grandstand did not extend too far towards Ellacombe and is not shown in this picture. The extension to the grandstand was completed during the 1954/5 season. That's brilliant, teignmouth54, thank you. I'd quite forgotten that photograph from the thread of three years ago. You can clearly see a building with pointed (almost ecclesiastical) features on the other side of Homelands Lane. Was it part of the school? How under-developed it looks in that press cutting in the absence of a first-team crowd.  |
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Post by rjdgull on Oct 11, 2012 16:02:21 GMT
Just looked at two maps of that area dating from 1935 and June 1968 and they both seem to show the same building. On the latter map it shows this building as Homelands County Infants School and maybe Stefano can recall what it was like? Typically, the grid section bisects the building.  Ellacombe vicarage is marked on there as well. The older map is of a smaller scale and refers to the site as central school. I will post the map later this evening. |
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Ellacombe vicarage is marked on there as well.