EASTVILLE
Yes. I remember Eastville -
The ground, because one afternoon
Of heat we stopped there in the car
For the last time. It was late June.
We stayed there. Someone cleared his throat.
No one left of came as we stood around
Out on the bare pitch. What we saw
Was Eastville - only the ground
And Warboys, Bannister and Eadie
Petherbridge, Biggs and Meyer
Radford, Bamford and Bradford
Together again, on the field, still there.
And for that minute the North Stand sang
"Harold" - and the crowd roared Rovers on
Louder and louder, until
The ball was in the net and we had won.
A C ASHTON With apologies to Edward Thomas 22nd April 1997My Dad's memories of Eastville
STOPPING BY THE MEMORIAL STADIUM ON A FOGGY EVENING
Whose ground this is I think I know,
The Evening Post reported so.
The paper says it's always right.
The editor is biased though:
You see this in the way he writes
Of Rovers' guilt and City's might.
Does money come from Ashton Gate?
The colour's red not blue and white.
The Post says Geoff's the one to hate,
Yet Rovers paid the going rate.
A jaundiced view the Post portrayed.
Near sixty years we had to wait.
The ground is ours now anyway:
Twenty thousand pounds were paid.
The truth is out there, so they say,
The truth is out there, so they say.
A C ASHTON With apologies to Robert Frost 16th August 1998And an interpretation of when Rovers first owned the Mem
