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Title: FOOTBALL TEAM Rovers 1st LATHERON surname UK IDENTITY help, please
Post by: 001uk on Saturday 08 October 16 15:30 BST (UK)
Hello!

Any ideas please as to the identity / location of this

Rovers 1st FOOTBALL TEAM ?

Players in bi-coloured strip. Team names:-
Simpson, Latheron, Chapman, Aitkenhead, Anthony / Walmsley, Smith, Bradshaw, R.Middleton, Sec. / Crompton, Captain, Cowell / Robinson

Message on reverse starts:
"This is the Photo of the Rovers 1st"

I've found the unusual surname LATHERON is most prolific in 1911 in: Cheshire, Durham, Lancashire, & Yorkshire

There is some kind of shield/badge above Aitkenhead's left shoulder.

With thanks~001uk
Title: FOOTBALL TEAM Rovers 1st LATHERON surname UK IDENTITY help, please
Post by: JenB on Saturday 08 October 16 15:36 BST (UK)
Google is a great tool to use  ;)

It's Blackburn Rovers.

Here's Eddie Latheron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Latheron He was killed at Passchendaele

Other people on your photo are mentioned on this page.
Title: FOOTBALL TEAM Rovers 1st LATHERON surname UK IDENTITY help, please
Post by: JenB on Saturday 08 October 16 15:39 BST (UK)
Other people on your photo are mentioned on this page.

Here's Bob Crompton - no doubt at all it's the same person. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Crompton
Title: Blackburn Rovers 1st FOOTBALL TEAM
Post by: 001uk on Saturday 08 October 16 16:27 BST (UK)
Google is a great tool to use  ;)
It's Blackburn Rovers

Thank you JenB: great result. I've had this image quite sometime and did try an internet search years ago. Perhaps when I wasn't quite so au fait with the "magic box". It's been sitting in my "To do" pile since, along with the other images I've been putting on recently. Perhaps I should double check a few before submitting then I won't be offside...
Title: FOOTBALL TEAM Rovers 1st LATHERON surname UK IDENTITY help, please
Post by: JenB on Saturday 08 October 16 16:32 BST (UK)
Latheron + footballer on Google gave an instant result  ;)
Title: Re: FOOTBALL TEAM Rovers 1st LATHERON surname UK IDENTITY help, please
Post by: JenB on Sunday 09 October 16 08:59 BST (UK)
What has happened to the team photo? It was beautifully clear before, now it is scarcely intelligible.
The same thing has happened to the photo on this thread http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=757224.msg6072406#msg6072406
Title: Re: FOOTBALL TEAM Rovers 1st LATHERON surname UK IDENTITY help, please
Post by: Gadget on Sunday 09 October 16 09:28 BST (UK)
What has happened to the team photo? It was beautifully clear before, now it is scarcely intelligible.
The same thing has happened to the photo on this thread http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=757224.msg6072406#msg6072406

How strange - they look as if they've had a halftone layer put on top of them - looks a bit like newspaper images. Same thing's happened to this one:

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=757169.msg6071659#msg6071659

Added - and this one http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=757163.msg6071574#msg6071574

Title: Re: FOOTBALL TEAM Rovers 1st LATHERON surname UK IDENTITY help, please
Post by: JenB on Sunday 09 October 16 09:33 BST (UK)
001uk perhaps you are doing this when a photo has been identified?

If you are - please don't! Other people might still want to look at it!

If you aren't doing it - I apologise  :D
Title: Re: FOOTBALL TEAM Rovers 1st LATHERON surname UK IDENTITY help, please
Post by: ScouseBoy on Sunday 09 October 16 12:54 BST (UK)
Why is this happening, I wonder?