Walkern Club Football Team 1911/2 - another player identified

Walkern Football Club - Winners of the Greg Cup in 1911/12

Football

Ronald has written in to say that the player in the front row, far right, is William James Smith.

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Please let me know if you can identify any other players

Early days with Hitchin Football Club Founded 1865

Hitchin

Football

Following my earlier post, When was Football first played in Hertfordshire, Roger added a most useful comment about the origins of the Hitchin Football Club in 1865. He reported that they joined the newly founded Football Association in 1870, and played Crystal Palace in the first round of the first year of the F.A. Cup.

Using the British Newspaper Archive I decided to see what I could find about its early history and found several a detailed report of athletic sports put on by the club in 1867, and two match reports which named the complete team. For full details see Hitchin Football Club.

Pall Mall Gazette, 21 February, 1868

Note: The Genealogy in Hertfordshire site contains many miscellaneous lists of names, such as the Hitchin Football team listed on these cuttings. Click Here to search the site for a name of interest to you.

An unknown Football Cup won by a Watford? club circa 1910

An Unknown Football Club

I have been collecting information on two Watford photographers Jesse Landon (photographer circa 1895-1906) and his brother Percy Landon (photographer circa 1908-1929). So far I have only traced a few examples of their work but one of them is a photograph of an unknown football club showing off the football cup that hey have obviously won. The first stage in identifying the club is probably to identify the cup - so have any of you any good ideas. Can you help?

For more information (and another Watford area football club waiting to be identified) see The Landon Family of Watford Photographers.

An unknown Watford Football Club

Did your ancestor play football for Batford Juniors?

This team is Batford Juniors, the ball carried the words "Batford Jnrs 1922/23" and they come from Harpenden.  The youngest was not much older than my father - so there must be some people still alive who knew some of these footballers. So can you help put a name to any of them - or provide other information about the club. A larger image is available in case it helps you to identify a face. The photo is in black and white - so what colour was their strip?

In fact this is only one of the football club pictures that are crying out for identification on this web site. Do you know anything about the Berkhamsted cup-winning football team at the end of the 19th century? We know the names of The Impossibles - but apart from the fact the the picture was taken by a Watford photographer we don't know where they played. The Walkern Football Club won the Greg Cup in 1912 - but we only know the name of one of the team. There are also some St Albans Clubs about which little is known, such as the Stanville F.C., the Adult School F.C. and the Glenfield F.C.