tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4270500688830727076.post1431967500937092921..comments2024-03-21T19:59:03.984+00:00Comments on Grounds for concern...: East Grinstead TownRabblerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00834935884051921044noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4270500688830727076.post-83574703712327900292023-11-28T18:52:40.470+00:002023-11-28T18:52:40.470+00:00I can tell you a lot about the Richards Rose Bowl,...I can tell you a lot about the Richards Rose Bowl, when I was at the club I didn't just raise funds. Yes I made sure every pitch side board space was filled and every team had a sponsor and the match programme went from black and white to full colour with changeable cover. I also brought the Rose bowl back to East Grinstead in my car from the Trophy Cabinet at Selhurst Park after I had tracked it down. Originally I sent a photo copied from the curator of the QVH, as summarised by David. I sent this to Selhurst park, I then spoke to the Chief Exec who said they didn't have it. My reply was simple, "shall I send you the photo of it in your trophy taken at the weekend?"It wasn't easy to find, but the obvious clue was Palace was the last team to win it, in fact they always won, however, the year Chelsea won the old Div 1 East Grinstead beat them 2 - 1 that year. When the new East Grinstead Museum open, I put together an exhibition that was the history of the club, that feature all those photos now o the wall, kits, balls and boots back as far as the 1940's. Some of the original ground. The exhibition was opened by a Brighton player, who recently past away Gerry Ryan, (2023) who played in those matches back in the 80s. Lee Quinn.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08264220974486567706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4270500688830727076.post-80702188426039388722011-07-21T23:54:23.223+01:002011-07-21T23:54:23.223+01:00Thanks for all that additional info,mate. Superb! ...Thanks for all that additional info,mate. Superb! Yes I did cut through the park, on my way back to the centre. It was East Grinstead Carnival day.Whoo,hoo! ;-)Rabblerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00834935884051921044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4270500688830727076.post-21384712462490978572011-07-18T00:05:11.007+01:002011-07-18T00:05:11.007+01:00It is my home town ground, so I can add a few extr...It is my home town ground, so I can add a few extra bits of information that may be of interest.<br /><br />East Court, as well as the name of the ground before it was sponsored, is an eighteenth century house, now the Town Council offices. You will have walked past it if you approached the ground from the town, although not if you came directly from the station. The house and grounds were bought in 1946 by Alfred Wagg, a local philanthropist, as a memorial to those people of the town who died in the Second World War. The football club (and the neighbouring shooting club) lease part of the land from the company set up to manage the grounds.<br /><br />The main stand was originally the only cover, with no permanent seats (if I remember correctly, they had a few chairs for anyone who needed or wanted to sit). When the ground grading requirements were revised to include 100 seats and 100 places under cover, seats were placed in the stand, and the small covered terrace added.<br /><br />The cup you have pictured is the Richards Hospital Cup, also known as the Rose Bowl. The first match to play for the cup was in 1938/9, to raise funds for the town's Queen Victoria Hospital, which had opened 2 years previously, and performed pioneering plastic surgery for burns in the Second World War. Some years the cup was played for against professional clubs, such as Chelsea, Crystal Palace and Brighton & Hove Albion, in other years against local clubs like Haywards Heath, Lewes and Chichester City. Crystal Palace won the trophy in 1991. Unfortunately either Palace mislaid it, or East Grinstead forgot to ask for it back. It therefore spent the next few years in Palace's trophy cabinet, until it was identified, with the assistance of the curator of the Queen Victoria Hospital's museum collection, and returned to East Grinstead in 2006. I am not sure whether they have played for it since, or have decided to keep the cup as part of the club's heritage.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07781680432491705445noreply@blogger.com