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From pubs now long gone on Hewlett Road to those still standing (no thanks to our early players) like The Cotswold and the Bath Inn.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\u0022font-size: 16px;\u0022\u003eA permanent home for a club helps ensure its survival and, indeed, its legacy. 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It also boasted a garden building for skittles and a cricket net also in the garden.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\u0022font-size: 16px;\u0022\u003eThis shows how much the club was able to expand beyond its rugby origins and, by the 1950s, the club’s competitive activities had widened to include cricket (games at St Mark’s), table tennis, ‘the round ball game’, skittles (four teams) and even water polo with matches played at Alstone Baths. More sedate, but no less competitive, activities included chess, darts, liar dice, bridge and other card games – oh, and boat race drinking too.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\u0022font-size: 16px;\u0022\u003eHaving it’s own premises, the club was also able to host many functions and dances were held periodically.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","ContentConfig":{"Caption":null,"Icon":null,"IconColour":null,"CaptionColour":null,"UnderlineColour":null,"TextColour":null,"FontSize":null,"LineHeight":null,"RequiresLoggedInUser":false,"BottomMargin":0,"PaddingLeft":"5px","PaddingTop":"0px","PaddingRight":"0px","PaddingBottom":"0px","PhoneVisible":true,"TabletVisible":true,"DesktopVisible":true,"CssClass":null,"PageLinkName":null,"PageLinkCaption":null},"ComponentCode":null,"ComponentError":null,"BottomMargin":"0px","PaddingLeft":"5px","PaddingTop":"0px","PaddingRight":"0px","PaddingBottom":"0px","CssClass":null,"ResponsiveClasses":"","PageLinkName":null,"PageLinkCaption":null,"Background":{"Colour":null,"ImageURL":null,"Filter":null,"IsParallax":false,"Image":"","Tint":""},"ImageConfig":{"ImageURL":null,"ObjectFit":"contain","ImageHeight":null,"FrameStyle":null,"BorderRadius":null,"Caption":{"IsActive":false,"Text":null,"SubText":null,"Font":{"Size":null,"Colour":null},"SubFont":{"Size":null,"Colour":null},"Alignment":null,"Position":null,"Margin":null,"BackgroundColour":null,"Blur":false,"Hover":false},"AltText":null,"LinkURL":null,"BottomMargin":0,"PaddingLeft":"10px","PaddingTop":"10px","PaddingRight":"10px","PaddingBottom":"10px","PhoneVisible":true,"TabletVisible":true,"DesktopVisible":true,"CssClass":null,"PageLinkName":null,"PageLinkCaption":null},"IgnoreCache":false}]},{"Width":6,"WidthClasses":"col-md-6 col-sm-12 col-xs-12","Elements":[{"ID":2526,"Type":"COMPONENT","Content":null,"ContentConfig":{"Caption":null,"Icon":null,"IconColour":null,"CaptionColour":null,"UnderlineColour":null,"TextColour":null,"FontSize":null,"LineHeight":null,"RequiresLoggedInUser":false,"BottomMargin":0,"PaddingLeft":"10px","PaddingTop":"10px","PaddingRight":"10px","PaddingBottom":"10px","PhoneVisible":true,"TabletVisible":true,"DesktopVisible":true,"CssClass":null,"PageLinkName":null,"PageLinkCaption":null},"ComponentCode":"gallery","ComponentError":null,"BottomMargin":"0px","PaddingLeft":"0px","PaddingTop":"0px","PaddingRight":"0px","PaddingBottom":"0px","CssClass":null,"ResponsiveClasses":"","PageLinkName":null,"PageLinkCaption":null,"Background":{"Colour":null,"ImageURL":null,"Filter":null,"IsParallax":false,"Image":"","Tint":""},"ImageConfig":{"ImageURL":null,"ObjectFit":"contain","ImageHeight":null,"FrameStyle":null,"BorderRadius":null,"Caption":{"IsActive":false,"Text":null,"SubText":null,"Font":{"Size":null,"Colour":null},"SubFont":{"Size":null,"Colour":null},"Alignment":null,"Position":null,"Margin":null,"BackgroundColour":null,"Blur":false,"Hover":false},"AltText":null,"LinkURL":null,"BottomMargin":0,"PaddingLeft":"10px","PaddingTop":"10px","PaddingRight":"10px","PaddingBottom":"10px","PhoneVisible":true,"TabletVisible":true,"DesktopVisible":true,"CssClass":null,"PageLinkName":null,"PageLinkCaption":null},"IgnoreCache":false}]}],"ColumnSpacing":"10px","BottomMargin":"10px","TopPadding":"0px","IsFullWidth":false,"IsBackgroundFullWidth":false,"Background":{"Colour":null,"ImageURL":null,"Filter":null,"IsParallax":false,"Image":"","Tint":""}},{"Columns":[{"Width":6,"WidthClasses":"col-md-6 col-sm-12 col-xs-12","Elements":[{"ID":2527,"Type":"HTML","Content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\u0022font-size: 16px;\u0022\u003eFairholme was sold to provide a site for the Eagle Star’s car park but, knowing the club need to fund an alternative set-up, club treasurer Gus Negus didn’t let it go cheap. He waited until the owners of all other properties had agreed to sell, and then asked the developers to increase their offer by about 50%. Of course, the developers refused, so Gus said “fine, we won’t sell. Gus stood firm and the developers ended up paying the inflated rate.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\u0022font-size: 16px;\u0022\u003eThe sale financed the building of a new club house designed by architect Roger Dyer, himself an Old Pat, on Sandy Lane Playing Fields at Everest Road, Leckhampton. The whole site had previously been used for extracting sand, and the resulting miniature lake had to be filled in. To this day, the land is still settling. Previously, the site had housed the Leckhampton Scouts headquarters.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\u0022font-size: 16px;\u0022\u003eWhitbread Brewery found the club an old, unused pub in King Street, off Lower High Street, which became home for about 18 months until the Everest Road facility was completed.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\u0022font-size: 16px;\u0022\u003eNow the Old Pats had two rugby pitches, a cricket pitch, a skittles alley, a squash court and ... another Men’s Bar! Our current home has had numerous re-incarnations, including the addition of a second squash court. 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This was surpassed by the move to a purpose-built clubhouse at Everest Road with adjacent sports fields. The next step will be similarly significant.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\u0022font-size: 16px;\u0022\u003eWe want to develop the club and the clubhouse into a place where all are welcome to come and enjoy sport and a convivial social environment. Whether as a participant, a fan, an armchair enthusiast, a parent, a grandparent or just someone vaguely interested, we want you to feel welcome at this club. 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After studying at Cheltenham Grammar School and Loughborough University, Taff enjoyed stints playing at Bath Rugby and Aretians RFC in Bristol before re-settling in Cheltenham in 1974.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\u0022font-size: 16px;\u0022\u003eBack in Cheltenham and back at the Pats, Taff was one of many huge characters who laid the club’s foundations. He was Captain, Chairman and the longest serving President in the club\u0027s history.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\u0022font-size: 16px;\u0022\u003eTaff also fully engaged in squash and cricket at the club. He was the Boater-wearing welcomer at the Pats tent at Cheltenham Cricket Festival for many years.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\u0022font-size: 16px;\u0022\u003eTaff loved this club and got out of it what he put in, the secret to any successful club.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\u0022font-size: 16px;\u0022\u003eFollowing his passing in 2020, the \u0027member\u0027s bar\u0027 was named Taffs Bar in memory of a man who meant so much to everybody and was loved by everyone here ... and his boater still hangs behind the bar.\u003c/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","ContentConfig":{"Caption":null,"Icon":null,"IconColour":null,"CaptionColour":null,"UnderlineColour":null,"TextColour":null,"FontSize":null,"LineHeight":null,"RequiresLoggedInUser":false,"BottomMargin":0,"PaddingLeft":"5px","PaddingTop":"0px","PaddingRight":"0px","PaddingBottom":"0px","PhoneVisible":true,"TabletVisible":true,"DesktopVisible":true,"CssClass":null,"PageLinkName":null,"PageLinkCaption":null},"ComponentCode":null,"ComponentError":null,"BottomMargin":"0px","PaddingLeft":"5px","PaddingTop":"0px","PaddingRight":"0px","PaddingBottom":"0px","CssClass":null,"ResponsiveClasses":"","PageLinkName":null,"PageLinkCaption":null,"Background":{"Colour":null,"ImageURL":null,"Filter":null,"IsParallax":false,"Image":"","Tint":""},"ImageConfig":{"ImageURL":null,"ObjectFit":"contain","ImageHeight":null,"FrameStyle":null,"BorderRadius":null,"Caption":{"IsActive":false,"Text":null,"SubText":null,"Font":{"Size":null,"Colour":null},"SubFont":{"Size":null,"Colour":null},"Alignment":null,"Position":null,"Margin":null,"BackgroundColour":null,"Blur":false,"Hover":false},"AltText":null,"LinkURL":null,"BottomMargin":0,"PaddingLeft":"10px","PaddingTop":"10px","PaddingRight":"10px","PaddingBottom":"10px","PhoneVisible":true,"TabletVisible":true,"DesktopVisible":true,"CssClass":null,"PageLinkName":null,"PageLinkCaption":null},"IgnoreCache":false}]},{"Width":6,"WidthClasses":"col-md-6 col-sm-12 col-xs-12","Elements":[{"ID":2531,"Type":"COMPONENT","Content":null,"ContentConfig":{"Caption":null,"Icon":null,"IconColour":null,"CaptionColour":null,"UnderlineColour":null,"TextColour":null,"FontSize":null,"LineHeight":null,"RequiresLoggedInUser":false,"BottomMargin":0,"PaddingLeft":"10px","PaddingTop":"10px","PaddingRight":"10px","PaddingBottom":"10px","PhoneVisible":true,"TabletVisible":true,"DesktopVisible":true,"CssClass":null,"PageLinkName":null,"PageLinkCaption":null},"ComponentCode":"gallery","ComponentError":null,"BottomMargin":"0px","PaddingLeft":"0px","PaddingTop":"0px","PaddingRight":"0px","PaddingBottom":"0px","CssClass":null,"ResponsiveClasses":"","PageLinkName":null,"PageLinkCaption":null,"Background":{"Colour":null,"ImageURL":null,"Filter":null,"IsParallax":false,"Image":"","Tint":""},"ImageConfig":{"ImageURL":null,"ObjectFit":"contain","ImageHeight":null,"FrameStyle":null,"BorderRadius":null,"Caption":{"IsActive":false,"Text":null,"SubText":null,"Font":{"Size":null,"Colour":null},"SubFont":{"Size":null,"Colour":null},"Alignment":null,"Position":null,"Margin":null,"BackgroundColour":null,"Blur":false,"Hover":false},"AltText":null,"LinkURL":null,"BottomMargin":0,"PaddingLeft":"10px","PaddingTop":"10px","PaddingRight":"10px","PaddingBottom":"10px","PhoneVisible":true,"TabletVisible":true,"DesktopVisible":true,"CssClass":null,"PageLinkName":null,"PageLinkCaption":null},"IgnoreCache":false}]}],"ColumnSpacing":"10px","BottomMargin":"10px","TopPadding":"0px","IsFullWidth":false,"IsBackgroundFullWidth":false,"Background":{"Colour":null,"ImageURL":null,"Filter":null,"IsParallax":false,"Image":"","Tint":""}},{"Columns":[{"Width":6,"WidthClasses":"col-md-6 col-sm-12 col-xs-12","Elements":[{"ID":2532,"Type":"HTML","Content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\u0022color: rgb(149, 55, 52);\u0022\u003e\u003cspan style=\u0022font-size: 18px;\u0022\u003ePhil Bevins’ personal memories of Old Pats ‘Legends’\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\u0022font-size: 16px;\u0022\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIan Golesworthy and Ray Kingscott, both of whom we celebrate in our “legends” day, were very different characters and both were pivotal in my Old Pats experience.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\u0022font-size: 16px;\u0022\u003eIn 1958 Ian was third team skipper and, needing to make up the numbers on one occasion, asked Illtyd Pearce, the school’s fearsome PE master, to give him a hooker. That turned out to be me, and so I played my first game for the Pats at age 16! The game was memorable for another, much darker, reason. One of our players, a lock forward named Yeend, fell awkwardly on his head, and although he seemed alright at the time, he tragically died from a brain haemorrhage only a few days later.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\u0022font-size: 16px;\u0022\u003eI did not, on leaving school, play rugby or join the Old Pats – by then Bill Niles’ Delta Jazzmen and my girlfriend were occupying all my leisure time, but much later, as an old bloke of 30, when the new clubhouse was built, I joined so I could play squash. To keep fit, I trained with the rugby lads and one day in 1973 Ray Kingscott gripped me warmly by the throat, saying “the fourths need a hooker this week and I’m sure you want to play!” This was an offer I couldn’t refuse, so I played, and thus enjoyed another 10 years or so of playing (often with Golesworthy’s famous “Entertain, Pats, Entertain!” growl from the neighbouring first team game) and then a few years refereeing, followed by many years of pleasure watching us play.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\u0022font-size: 16px;\u0022\u003eIt was Ray who had the foresight to ensure that our Centenary Season in 2012/13 was so well organised and successful.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\u0022font-size: 16px;\u0022\u003eAt about the same time in the early 70’s David “Taff” Powell returned from Bristol to take up a post at Bournside School. He was, by then, a bit old for first team duties but was made captain of the thirds and proved an inspirational skipper and a very solid cornerstone of the pack – well appreciated by me when I had the pleasure of being propped by him. But it was his later contributions to the club as recruiter (many players, particularly from Bournside, were introduced by him) fundraiser (the 100 club) and above all his genial and charming personality which made him such a successful and highly regarded Club President, were the ingredients of his genuine “Legendary” status. 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