Before we were Cherry & White.

Brilliant! Very interesting. Is the first ‘Cherry and White’ shirt the one ‘borrowed’ from Painswick and never returned?

See
https://www.gloucesterrugbyheritage.org ... -and-myths

It might be good,if possible to see if the same or similar can be done on the Badges we've had over the years. I bet there's been more changes than most would suspect.

Was thinking the same DT, a lot of old pictures the shirts didn't have badges on as opposed to the club badge...shirt badges don't seem to have been a big thing until the modern era.

Had a quick look on the Heritage site, the 1985-86 programmes have a cover picture with no badges/crests etc, after that some of the pictures show the city crest, so was the change around about then ?

Brilliant! Very interesting. Is the first ‘Cherry and White’ shirt the one ‘borrowed’ from Painswick and never returned?

The Painswick "saga" was interesting and debunked a long-running and oft-repeated/believed myth - one that PRFC perpetuate by having on their web-site. That said in these parts Painswick were/are The Original Cherry & Whites - and on the basis that GRFC are now Cherry & Red good luck to them. Harry Dyke and The Heritage team cleared that one up good and proper.

A pity as I rather preferred the myth to the truth !!

Brilliant! Very interesting. Is the first ‘Cherry and White’ shirt the one ‘borrowed’ from Painswick and never returned?

The Painswick "saga" was interesting and debunked a long-running and oft-repeated/believed myth - one that PRFC perpetuate by having on their web-site. That said in these parts Painswick were/are The Original Cherry & Whites - and on the basis that GRFC are now Cherry & Red good luck to them. Harry Dyke and The Heritage team cleared that one up good and proper.

A pity as I rather preferred the myth to the truth !!

And their excellent detective work debunked someone's assertion that there was an annual letter from Gloucester to Painswick regarding shirts!

Absolutely. One that many others also believed happened.

Clever clogs post-event LoA !!

Absolutely. One that many others also believed happened.

Clever clogs post-event LoA !!

Not clever clogs at all. I told you when you raised it that I'd never heard of it and none of my Painswick colleagues had either!

I never assume that what you say is always gospel !!

Have you also told them that PRFC never lent GRFC their shirts back in the day BUT it's a myth ?? Please don't because I like the myth more than the truth.............

Wonderful Harry thank you.