Philip Grace
2nd April 2007, 02:04 PM
Sorting through a pile of bits and pieces I came across a book I wrote back in the 1980s (I know that is pre-history to some of you). It was a short history of the Supermarine football club's first forty years.
Surprisingly, you might think, it sold out and raised a sizable amount of money for the club. Orders came in from all over the country and several from the continent. Many orderers were general Non-League fans not just people with Supermarine connections.
The point of all this (At last, you cry) is that if a short history of a then small Hellenic League club that had done next to nothing outside of Wiltshire can raise cash, how much better might a fuller history of Gloucester City do?
If any one fancies taking on the job (it would need to be someone with relatively easy access to Gloucestershire reference libraries) I can tell them it takes a lot of time in reference libraries reading local every copy of old newspapers, though doubtless the net would help now; also a lot of time interviewing people and finding pictures.
I did manage to find out the weather conditions and the team colours used in the first match as well as the result. So if anyone fancies it -- Good Luck.
Surprisingly, you might think, it sold out and raised a sizable amount of money for the club. Orders came in from all over the country and several from the continent. Many orderers were general Non-League fans not just people with Supermarine connections.
The point of all this (At last, you cry) is that if a short history of a then small Hellenic League club that had done next to nothing outside of Wiltshire can raise cash, how much better might a fuller history of Gloucester City do?
If any one fancies taking on the job (it would need to be someone with relatively easy access to Gloucestershire reference libraries) I can tell them it takes a lot of time in reference libraries reading local every copy of old newspapers, though doubtless the net would help now; also a lot of time interviewing people and finding pictures.
I did manage to find out the weather conditions and the team colours used in the first match as well as the result. So if anyone fancies it -- Good Luck.