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Full name | Raymond Glastonbury | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Bedwellty district, Wales | 11 December 1938||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Position | Wing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Raymond Glastonbury (born 11 December 1938) is a Welsh former rugby union and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s and 1960s. He played club level rugby union (RU) for Cardiff RFC, as a wing, and representative level rugby league (RL) for Wales, and at club level for Workington Town, as a wing. [1] [2]
Ray Glastonbury was born in Bedwellty district, Wales, and he was the younger brother of the rugby union wing who played in the 1950s and 1960s for Cardiff RFC (11-matches during the 1958/59 season), Glamorgan Wanderers RFC and Pontypridd RFC; Blandford Glastonbury (birth registered first ¼ 1934 (age 89–90) in Pontypridd district, marriage to Patricia K. (née Collins) registered third ¼ 1958 in Cardiff district). [3]
Glastonbury was the 1962–63 season's top try scorer with 41-tries. He won a cap for Wales while at Workington Town in 1963. [1]
Frank Castle was an English Olympic Games sprint trialist, rugby union, and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. He played representative level rugby union (RU) for Warwickshire, and at club level for Coventry R.F.C., and representative level rugby league (RL) for Great Britain and England, and at club level for Leigh and Barrow, as a wing. Castle was inducted in to the Barrow Hall of Fame in 2019.
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