BATH SARACENS RFC
MEMORY CHALLENGE
Check out the photos below, and if you have any thoughts or memories, get in touch through the link at the bottom.
1). OK, this is a real challenge. It's got to be in the 60's at the old ground. It'd be good to get it in the Annals.....
Back row: Eddie McGaul, Alfie Boon,Gerry Stone, Paul Gilmore,?,?,Ron Fordham,John Poskitt,?, Dave Stewart,?,Jim Leech, John Carling,?
Middle row: Dave Burton, Jim Wilson, Len Wilcox, Graham Beswick,Geoff Davis, Derek Gilbert
Front row: Roy McCullough, Peter Coombes, Ted Lambourne, Tom Doughty
(John Carling thought it was 1965/66.....??)
2). If you are an old fart who was playing for the Club in the 80's, you may be able to help me to achieve my goal of putting names to as many of the Club photos as possible. This is the next target, which I have done my best with, but a growing lack of grey cells has left a few gaps. If you can fill them, please e-mail me through the link at the bottom.
3). This is a rather ancient photo, apparently taken on the Avonvale pitch. I can't even guess when it was taken but speculation is that it isn't a club side, but an MOD team in our shirts. I can make out a few familiar faces, but can anyone recognise anybody else, or clock the year?
1.? 2. ? 3. Duncan Spence 4. Mick Durham 5. ? 6. Ian Elrick(?) 7. ? 8. ?
9. Hugh Sawyer 10. ? 11. ? 12 Maurice Hall 13. ? 14. ? 15. Graham Horn(?)
4). This is thought to be a mid-week game in 1970-71 - probably not Bath CS but an MoD team.
Back row: Colin Wilshire, ?, Bill McNaughton, Brian Jenkins (Combe Down), Hugh Sawyer, Roy McCullough, Josh Gifford (Walcot), Ian Tayler
Front row: Greg Tayler, ?, Len Wilcox, Graeme Beswick, Andy Marquiss, Malcolm James, Ivor Vernals
5). This looks like Bath Combination Sevens at the Rec - late 70's?
Dave Sutherland, John Carling, Tom Doughty, Dave Pyles, Jamie White?, Paul Collins
Hugh Sawyer, Jim Shannon
6). I'm told this isn't a Bath CS side at all - just a load of civil servants playing for Hullavington around 1977. Apparantly they just borrowed the Club's back-up set of shirts! Thanks to Pete Cavallini for filling in the gaps!
Top: Vince Phillips, Dave Sutherland, Steve Panel, Doug Cameron , Dave Hassett , Colin Wilshire, Keith Harris , Hugh Sawyer,
Ian Nicholson , Derek Brown
Bottom: Selwyn Miners, Ian Burnham, Walter Donald , Pete Cavallini, Keith Bellamy
7). This is a (crap) photo of the tourers in 1980, where records tell us that we played Birmingham City officials (lost 62-0) and Birmingham CS (lost 36-15)
8). One I can definitely place (but can't find a suitable place on the site for!) - it's a charity pram-push from Weston-super-Mare to Bath on 19th July 1981. Posh pram, eh?
Anybody with any other photos of Club-interest, e-mail them through the link below with as much info as you can remember!