Old photographs: Football
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Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire
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The Bradford Crusaders 2nd XI football team for the season 1925-1926. The team consisted of members of the Crusaders Club which was connected to Christ Church. The Crusaders had a clubhouse in New Road which later became the workshop of the Saxon Garage and has now been demolished to make way for housing.
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A Crusaders football team of the early or mid-1920s . Back row from left: Bill Lawrence, Bert Allaway, Perce Drewett, Stan Porter, Arthur Budman (referee). Middle row: Sid Andrews, – Reed, Jeff Wiltshire. Front row: Jack Bryant, Jim Hill, Fred Butler, Gordon Pearce, Frank Musselwhite
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The football is marked BCFC 1907-8, so this photograph is probably of another Bradford Crusaders Football Club team, but from an earlier period.
The Crusaders’ hut (left) and pitch in New Road, all built over now. The terraces of houses in the background are in Woolley
Bradford Bible Class football team was probably formed of boys associated with Holy Trinity Church.
Bradford Association Football Club team of 1909-1910. They are posing in front of the mound in what was called Victory Field after the Great War, ten years later.
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Bradford Association Football Club team in 1896 photographed outside Barton Farm House. Team members, back row: A. Archard, F. Reynolds, E.H. Smith (hon. sec.), George Brown; middle: A.O. Crew (captain), A.C. Adams; front: H. Fricker, A. Viles, W. Brown, A.H. Vennell, H. Stevens, F. Stevens, W. Howlett. Also seen, far right, is Henry Aland Summers (hon. sec.).
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The Spencer Moulton Rubber Company football team and its committee members. They were photographed in front of the stand at the company’s sports ground in Trowbridge Road, probably in the 1930s. The Museum does not have names to match the faces, although many are familiar from other photos.
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A large crowd of spectators at the Spencer Moulton sports ground, Trowbridge Road, Bradford. The occasion is not known and it may not have been sporting, although they are lined up along the edge of the football pitch. Judging by the outsize flat caps and the number of soldiers in uniform, this may have been taken sometime around the period of the First World War. The houses in the background are still there.
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Woolley Green Football Club team for the season 1927-1928 (left). They have clearly been successful, winning two cups and displaying their individual medals.
Holt Football Club was the oldest club in Wiltshire to be set up under the Football Association’s rules; it was founded in 1864. The photograph is of the team in 1918, with Jim Ladd who went on to found a builders’ merchant company in Trowbridge, seated in the front row, far right.
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An earlier photograph of members of Holt Football Club, in 1906-7, the season in which they won the Trowbridge District League.
Back row: F. Drewitt, F. Harris (committee), H. Sydee, R. Edwards (asst. sec.), S. Barton, C. Young (committee), E. Jones, Ernest Stokes. Middle row: H. Perry, A.J. Beaven (president), D. Scrine, J. Hunt (captain), D. Drewitt, A. Cliff. Front row: E. Skinner, C. Giles, B. Nibbs (hon. sec.), H. Ryan
Widbrook Wanderers, the Widbrook Sports Club’s football team was affiliated to the Trowbridge & District Football League. The club was based at the Beehive pub at Widbrook, which is in the background of this 1950s photograph.
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