Yesterday's Island Today ; It's 25 Years Since Yesterday's Island, a Community Drama About Life in St Philips Marsh, Hit the Headlines. Brian Davis, From Keynsham's Fry Club, Tells Bristol Times How He Helped to Put This Phenomenally Successful Show On the Road Taking a Look Back at Island Life

Evening Post (Bristol, UK) › October 20, 2009

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IT WAS during the summer of 1980 that an old friend - and fellow ex-Marsh resident - reminded me that the St Philips Marsh Adult School football club was celebrating its Diamond Jubilee.

To mark the occasion, I suggested a match between a team of ex- players, of which I was one, and the current side.

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Yesterday's Island Today ; It's 25 Years Since Yesterday's Island, a Community Drama About Life in St Philips Marsh, Hit the Headlines. Brian Davis, From Keynsham's Fry Club, Tells Bristol Times How He Helped to Put This Phenomenally Successful Show On the Road Taking a Look Back at Island Life

In fact, so many people came along to a further game that it developed into something of a Marsh reunion.

From talk in the bar after the game came a germ of an idea - a book about St Philips Marsh and its people.

In the event, Ted Phillips, Roger Packer, Sid Davies (no relation) and I planned and wrote it together.

Launched amid much media hype in 1983 at yet another Marsh reunion, it sold like the proverbial hot cakes and fame, if not fortune, arrived at my doorstep.

That should really have been the end of it. But I had a feeling that this unique story would make a great subject for a...

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