Former Courts in Wales
- Cowbridge School, Cowbridge, South Glamorgan
1 court. The court site is contained within the curtilage of the Old Grammar School which has not been in use for well over a decade. The last use of the area was for skateboarding, in the period when the premises were used as a youth club. The site has recently been sold for development and is now in private ownership.
Information provided by Chris Little May 2002 - Hawarden Castle, Hawarden, Clwyd Wales (Home to Sir William Gladstone, Bt)
1 court was still standing in the 1990s but used as a compost heap. - Llandovery College, Lampeter
1 court. There is a fives court at Llandovery. At present it is used as a music teaching room, offices and practice rooms. It is located on what is know as the College Ball Courts. I gather it was used for the Eton game.
Peter A Hogan, Warden (Information provided by Chris Little May 2002). - Lewis Boys Comprehensive, Pengam, South Wales
1 court. A fives court was built in the 19 century when the school had pretensions to become the "Eton of South Wales". (Lloyd George called it the Eton of Wales whilst others have preferred a comparison with Winchester.) We believe it to have been an Eton court. The court no longer exists but an open-air handball court still survives in the local ex-colliery village of Nelson (the home village of the Falklands veteran Simon Weston) and some of our pupils represent Wales at handball from time to time. Pupils here also play (informally) "handball" against walls in the school, something I haven't seen in other schools I've worked in.
Chris Howard, Headteacher (Information provided by Chris Little May 2002) - St David's College
1 court. The fives court you describe was in use until the late eighties from then it was used for general storage until it was sold to an electrical retailer in the nineties who continues to occupy the building. As to either the Eton or Rugby game it was Eton fives.
Tony Rollason, Estates Manager (Information provided by Chris Little May 2002)
Constructed by Mike Fenn
14th January 2000
efa@etonfives.co.uk