Greens on Screen

Greens on Screen started its life in 1999 before many of the football sites that we are familiar with today, including Plymouth Argyle's own official site. Greens on Screen is dedicated to the sights, sounds and history of Plymouth Argyle Football club. It is owned and run by the Plymouth Argyle Heritage Archive, a charity dedicated to the promotion, preservation, and display of the heritage of our great football club.

The site owes its existence to Steve Dean.Without Steve's dedication and commitment for over 25 years, GoS would not exist and be the valued and loved resource for all football fans that it is today. The site is truly the envy of many clubs, and we owe a huge debt to Steve for his tireless work, and continued support behind the scenes.

Greens on Screen's first page was published in January 1999. Its early purpose was to bring Plymouth Argyle a little closer to those unable to see their team, and whilst it has changed a great deal over the years, its core themes - sights and sounds for Westcountry exiles - still stand. The site was very lucky to take on the content of Trevor Scallan's Semper Viridis in the summer of 2007, and in 2009 launched GoS-DB, a wealth of facts and figures from PAFC's history. A year later, we embarked on a complete history of Argyle, with much-valued contributions from chapter authors. Greens on Screen was taken over by its new custodians, The Argyle Archive, in 2024.

Greens on Screen is an amateur website and proud of it. It is run by a team of volunteers from the Plymouth Argyle Heritage Archive (Argyle Archive). Without the hard work and much-valued contributions of these volunteers, running the site would not be possible. Greens on Screen is self-taught and as a result, a little bit quirky.

Greens on Screen remains advertisement free, which means we are grateful for the generous support of our donors and the work of our volunteers to help keep it free of promotions. If you would like to support the work of Greens on Screen, please consider donating to the Plymouth Argyle Heritage Archive.

GoS's sole aim is to be a service to fellow supporters, and we look forward to continuing to celebrate Argyle's history for many years to come.

Plymouth Argyle Heritage Archive.
April 2024

Argyle Hostel Open Evening

Friday 29 October 2004

The Argyle is a supervised residence for young players, first occupied in 1997 and acquired three years later.

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Living together is vitally important in aiding team spirit and encouraging the best youngsters to come to Plymouth, and The Argyle is PAST&DT's flagship; used by our scholars and other youngsters during the year who travel to Plymouth for weekend matches.

The five-storey terraced house is over 150 years old and, as with all buildings of that age, needs more than average maintenance. Since 1997 the Trust has undertaken substantial repairs including new roofs to both numbers 3 and 5 Sutherland Road (number 5 was sold in 2000). More recently, the Trustees realised that the south west facing bays at the rear of the building, affecting around one third of the usable living space at the property, were in urgent need of repair to ensure that The Argyle remains an asset to the Trust for many years to come. Estimates to replace both the bays and the windows as well as installing a new fire escape indicated a cost of some Ł20,000. At their meeting on 10 April 2004, the Trustees agreed to undertake these works during the summer of 2004.

Wendy, Mum to 14

Residents of The Argyle to have gone on to represent the Plymouth Argyle first team include Darren Bastow, Kevin Wills, Jon Ashton, Joe Broad, Luke McCormick and Paul Connolly.

I came away with a real feeling of warmth and friendliness. Resident 'mum' Wendy showed me around, and what a smashing lady she was. With a clear love for the place and her charges, she spoke especially of Luke and Paul, who had spent 4 years under her wing. There was such pride in her voice as she showed me Luke's number 23 shirt and how he had sent her a text earlier that day to let her know he was doing OK in Boston. And there was a tinge of sadness too - time moves on - Shelley finally moved out just two weeks ago. But she still has 'her boys', 14 currently in residence with a further 5 younger ones spending their half-term at The Argyle last week.

Sadly I couldn't stay long, and with everyone busy in conversation, had to slip away without saying goodbye, and I guess I missed the collection box too. If I can put that partly right, a plug for the ongoing work of the Trust: don't forget that all donations to Greens on Screen for the rest of this year (at least) will redirected to PAST&DT to help with the ongoing upkeep of the hostel. You can do this through the Donate link at the top of the page.