As a local historian, Elizabeth sometimes gets given pictures that are not easy to identify. So she wanted to find out if anybody recognises any of the teams and players. Press the small image to see a bigger image All we know so far is that the pictures are by Warland Andrew, The Royal Studio, Abingdon.
This team are pictured outside the Pavlova Leather Company Limited
This team have the same kit with a skull and cross bones as a badge.
Nothing much to identify this team.
The church in the background is St Helen’s. One player has a badge with DFC.
I think the building in the second picture is also a pavlova building, if memory serves me it was the small social club building , sorry I can’t help with the players.
Looks like the North Berks Charity Shield? The obvious course of research would be Abingdon Town F C,they must have some serious archived, but I gather they’ve not submitted a team this year and that’s even more of a worry because the land is not in or owned by the Vake, it falls within the boundary of South Ox and being an established brown field sure is prime for building? Here we go again !
Beautifully done CK to bring it round to a random rant when the post is about football.
You’re right that it does look like the North Berks shield though so perhaps the North Berks League would be the obvious starting point rather than Abingdon Town?
http://www.nbfl.co.uk/leaguetabs/CharityShield.asp
Ben it’s not a random rant, the post is about local football, ok it may be in a past tense, but it is related, the pic with St Helens church in the background may feature a match just played on or near the town football club which by all accounts has now ceased its operation? If so what next for the ground? Will it go the same as the Pavalova ( one of the clubs featured ) and M G. Sports ground and be sold off for housing too? Seems any part of Abingdon is fair game now for developers ? May not be too long before all we have left of our beautiful historic town are photographs !
What lovely photos; what a rich history we have.
Trying to draw at least a tenuous link between the two strands of this thread (!), it doesn’t take the much study of old maps and photos to know that the great majority of us live in places which were not residential 100-150 years ago. Backstreeter is an honourable exception; my house was formerly the Workhouse – surely a good example of brownfield site redevelopment? Does Capt K have any qualms of conscience about having lived in the brewery development – or in what was, I think, farmland along the riverside? Do Dunmore Road residents think how the people of South Avenue felt when their houses were built – and a generation or two earlier, how did the farm people of Northcourt feel when Abingdon enveloped them.
This is life – here and everywhere else; as others have said, it is not the development as such that is the problem, but how it is done. That is what we need to lobby about….
Well said, Hester.
Glad to see its business as usual Hester, you just can’t resist gaving a pop can you ? But more worrying is your interest in my various homes, are you stalking me ?
Just in case anyone took that last comment seriously I should make clear that over the years Capt K and I have had numerous amicable conversations in the street and he has often talked to me about where he lives!
I think the talk of development of the football club is a red herring. From my understanding it is partially the flooding of the site that caused problems for the football club therefore it wouldn’t be a site suitable for housing.
Pavlova won the North Berks Charity Shield 3 times in 1920,21, and 22. They also won the North Berks League in 1921. So I would guess the 2nd picture is in 1921. Players mentioned in the final league game against Wantage were: Jenkins (goal), Green, Vidler, Ivey, Cottrell, Parker, C Johnson (Captain), Hyde, Freeston, Thatcher. There were 700 people watching the game.
North Berks Charity Sheild in its original form. Much bigger now since an outer rim was added and I reset the silver plaques and added more.North Berks Football website gives details of winners.
Cup is either North Berks Cup or North Berks War memorial cup which started in 1939 I think. Details can be found as above.