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Day 16 - Wednesday 23 May - Sand spreading continues
23/05/2018
The pitch area is covered with the first layer of sand.
Day 15 - Tuesday 22 May - Spreading first layer of sand
23/05/2018
Spreading the sand starts.
Day 14 - Monday 21 May - Moving more sand onto the pitch area
23/05/2018
Moving sand from the car parks onto the pitch area.
Day 12 - Saturday 19 May - Lateral drains completed. Moving sand starts
23/05/2018
Lateral drains completed. Laying sand started.
Day 10 - Thursday 17 May - A detailed look at the drainpipe layer
17/05/2018
A detailed look at a piece of specialist equipment.
Day 9 - Wednesday 16 May - Work starts on installing the lateral drains
16/05/2018
Having completed the installation of the main drainage pipe, collars were installed ready to be connected to the lateral drains. ...
You Don't Know What You're Doing!
16/05/2018
From a Citizen report on a Gloucester. v Coventry match on 8 September 1973: “Butler landed a goal in the 11th ...
Day 8 - Tuesday 15 May - 150mm drainage pipe installation
15/05/2018
Laying the main drainage pipe begins.
Day 7 - Monday 14 May - Work starts on the new drainage system
14/05/2018
The new drainage system is started whilst creating the new profile of the pitch continues.
1874-1875
14/05/2018
Five match reports
1873-1874
14/05/2018
Five match reports
Day 3 - Thursday 10 May - Levelling the surface
11/05/2018
All day was spent bulldozing the soil to start creating the required profile of the new pitch.
Day 2 - Wednesday 9 May - Turf goes and GPS is prepared.
08/05/2018
An estimated 200 tons of soil and grass clippings need to be removed from site.
Day 1 - Tuesday 8 May - Removing the turf
08/05/2018
The old pitch goes.
Publications
30/04/2018
Gloucester Rugby Heritage has published the following books: Gloucester Rugby Heritage – a richly illustrated 40-page digest of the history of ...
Partners and Sponsors
29/04/2018
The following organisations played an important part in the development of Gloucester Rugby Heritage: Gloucester Rugby, the history of which is ...
Management
29/04/2018
Gloucester Rugby Heritage was originally set up as part of Friends of Gloucestershire Archives, but by 2015 it was evident ...
Origins of the Project
29/04/2018
It was the demolition of the old wooden grandstand on the south side of Kingsholm in the summer of 2007 ...
1990s
27/04/2018
A random selection of clips from the 1990s decade.
Historic Video clips - Other rugby-related activities
27/04/2018
This section contains links to video clips which are rugby-related but not of actual matches. If you come across clips which ...
Highlights of Local matches in bygone years
27/04/2018
Lydney v Sale 1983 Played on 22 January 1983. BBC match video from Rugby Special This was a John Player Cup third round ...
The Invincibles
18/04/2018
The Gloucester team went through the 1882/3 season unbeaten, with 14 matches played, 11 won and 3 drawn. They were ...
Gloucester Teams in the 2010s
11/04/2018
Gloucester Teams in the 2000s
11/04/2018
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