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  • Gloucester engage a Super-coach, way back in 1950

    Gloucester engage a Super-coach, way back in 1950

    26/01/2011
    Item taken from Minutes of Committee Meeting 17 Oct 1950: “COACH.   Hon. Treasurer stated he had received a satisfactory promise ...
  • The Tump

    The Tump

    23/01/2011
    The famous Tump. The score on the scoreboard is difficult to make out but it looks like Gloucestershire 40, Yorkshire 19 ...
  • 1891: The Purchase of Kingsholm

    1891: The Purchase of Kingsholm

    18/01/2011
    Original ground plans
  • BBC Radio Gloucestershire News Item, 8 Jan 2011

    BBC Radio Gloucestershire News Item, 8 Jan 2011

    09/01/2011
    John Putley of Gloucestershire Archives talks about the exhibition marking the 130 years history of Gloucester Rugby
  • Professional Ball Boys

    Professional Ball Boys

    09/01/2011
    In the early 1950s, Archie Balchin, the Club Treasurer, made the first payments to ball boys at Gloucester matches – ...
  • Whodunnit?!

    Whodunnit?!

    05/01/2011
    Extracts below are two items taken from Minutes of GRFC Committee Meetings (i) 8 May and (ii) 29 May 1956 ...
  • They were tougher in those days...

    They were tougher in those days...

    03/01/2011
    Extract from Minutes of GRFC Committee Meeting held on 10th January 1956. “Players’ Representative.   A number of matters as follows ...
  • Numbering of Jerseys

    Numbering of Jerseys

    02/01/2011
    Extract taken from Minutes of GRFC Committee Meeting held on 26 July 1955. “Numbering of Jerseys.   On the suggestion of ...
  • Parched Kingsholm

    Parched Kingsholm

    02/01/2011
    Extract taken from Minutes of GRFC Committee Meeting held on 20 Sep 1955.   “Watering of Ground. The Captain enquired as to the ...
  • Gloucester Players in trouble with the law?

    Gloucester Players in trouble with the law?

    02/01/2011
    Whoever wrote these minutes had a way with words: Extract from GRFC Committee Meeting Minutes of 4 October, 1955. “Gloucester Police.   ...
  • Elimination of undesirables...

    Elimination of undesirables...

    30/12/2010
    GRFC Minutes dated 10th May 1955: “Players’ Dance. The Chairman said he had attended the dance and he considered there were ...
  • No, You Come to Us

    No, You Come to Us

    22/12/2010
    In October 1950, the Gloucester Club committee refused to allow a fixture at Moseley on the second Saturday of the ...
  • Free Rugby for the Glorious Glosters

    Free Rugby for the Glorious Glosters

    22/12/2010
    Soldiers of the Gloucestershire Regiment, who had been fighting in the Korean War, and who turned up at Kingsholm in ...
  • Safeguarding the Amateur Game

    Safeguarding the Amateur Game

    22/12/2010
    During the 1936/7 season, “Bumps” Carpenter, the Gloucester hooker, played his 50th match for the County. His record included 5 ...
  • Tom Walkinshaw

    Tom Walkinshaw

    15/12/2010
    Administrative Career
  • Cook, Brothers

    Cook, Brothers

    15/12/2010
    Six of the Best
  • The Development of Kingsholm - Overview

    The Development of Kingsholm - Overview

    13/12/2010
    The 1890s Following the purchase of the ground at Kingsholm in 1891, the new season loomed, and a pitch had to ...
  • Hillier, Russ

    Hillier, Russ

    12/12/2010
    An interview with the full back detached from Stroud, life and soul of the party, and now on the RFU committee
  • Bayliss, John

    Bayliss, John

    05/12/2010
    An interview with this hard-tackling centre, Gloucester & Gloucestershire captain.
  • Miscellaneous Social Functions

    Miscellaneous Social Functions

    01/12/2010
  • Baker, Mike

    Baker, Mike

    29/11/2010
    An interview with the goal-kicking centre who was a 1st XV regular at 17
  • Charles Winston A'Bear, 1916-1985 Military Medal (M.M.)

    Charles Winston A'Bear, 1916-1985 Military Medal (M.M.)

    23/11/2010
    Military Medal (M.M.)
  • Masseur Wanted

    Masseur Wanted

    22/11/2010
    Before the start of the 1948-49 season, Tom Day, the Player’s Representative on the Club Committee, reported that the players ...
  • Helping each other out

    Helping each other out

    22/11/2010
    Cheltenham and Gloucester
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  • Dick Williams on Jones, Brian – unfulfilled business

    14/01/2021
    This Comment added on behalf of Adam Ashby, who forwarded the following to us: Sad to say that Brian Jones...
  • Irene Hine (Nicholls) on Nicholls, Mike

    10/01/2021
    How lovely to read this amazing post about my brother.....gone but never forgotten....& oh boy could GRFC do with some...
  • Dick Williams on Holland(s), Dave

    02/01/2021
    His International try v Scotland is now added - thanks, Rob.
  • Rob Holland on Holland(s), Dave

    17/12/2020
    Dave Holland is my great-uncle. The profile mentions his England international appearances. It could be perhaps be expanded to say...
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