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Portugal Place - RIP

This report first appeared in the Eton Fives Association Annual Report 1994/95

Awards for architectural excellence were never showered on the motley collection of red brick and glass-topped blocks at Portugal Place. In living memory no fresh coats of paint were in evidence, the furniture was always decrepit and in recent years only essential maintenance was carried out as the Damoclean sword hung ever more menacingly. But we played our games there and it was a special place for us.

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1995 European Handball Championships

This article first appeared in the Eton Fives Association Annual Review 1994/95

Tony Hughes reports: Readers will of course be totally aware that the inaugural European One Wall Handball Championships were held in Mid-Wales at the May Bank Holiday, 1995. This Tournament followed the successful World Championships held in Dublin in October 1994.

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