Tag Archives: Wimborne Town

A Pair of Blue Eyes

04 Thursday Dec 2014

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Tuesday 2nd December 2014 ko 19.45

Dorset Senior Cup Quarter-Final

WIMBORNE TOWN 4 (Gamble 16 60 Davison 65 Webb 72)

SHERBORNE TOWN 1 (Burton 1)

Att 91

Entry £6 (normally £9)

Programme £1.50

With the blog now roughly 600 articles old, I do get followers on social media that do so to follow the updates. It’s all very gratifying, especially when the follower is a club I haven’t visited! The downside is the guilt when I pick somewhere that isn’t a follower, so I decided to go for the safe approach and watch Wimborne! Continue reading →

Behind The Bike Sheds

18 Friday Oct 2013

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Wednesday 16th October 2013 ko 19.45

Southern League Cup First Round

POOLE TOWN 1 (Byeley 63)

WIMBORNE TOWN 1 (Davidson 14)

No extra time, Poole won 5-4 on penalties

Att 206

Entry £10

Programme £2

Tea £1

The Dorset town of Poole is famous for many reasons; there’s the large harbour, and Poole Pottery now sadly closed. There’s Brownsea Island, the birthplace of the Scouting Movement, and during the English Civil War the town was a Puritan stronghold, a bastion against ship tax being levied at the time. With the Royalists on the brink of defeat in 1646, the Parliamentary garrison from Poole laid siege to and captured the nearby Royalist stronghold at Corfe Castle, the ruins of which are still a major tourist near Swanage. During the Second World War the town was a major embarkation point for Operation Overlord, as 81 landing craft containing American troops from the 29th Infantry Division and the US Army Rangers departed Poole Harbour for Omaha Beach for D-Day, in June 1944.

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Run VT

10 Thursday Nov 2011

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Wednesday 9th November 2011 Ko 7.45pm

Southern League Cup 1st Round

SHOLING 2 (Wort 40 53)

WIMBORNE TOWN 3 (Kemble 18 Cream 59 Wignall 88)

Att 94

Entry £8

Programme £2

Badge £3.50

Tea £1

Cheeseburger £3

Cheesy Chips £2

Sholing FC were known as VT FC until July 2010, and the ground is to be found in Old Notley, just outside Southampton city limits. VT refers to Vosper Thorneycroft, the shipbuilding and engineering firm, this was their works team. With the restyled VT Group now swallowed up by the Babcock Group in March 2010, the works link was lost and the club chose to name themselves after the district in eastern Southampton nearby. Interestingly the ground is still known as the VT Sports ground, and within its confines is the Vosper Thornycroft Pigeon Club. My mate May, not noted for her devotion to football, commented before I set out that Sholing sounds Continue reading →