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Occupation Interests / Re: Professional Footballer
« on: Friday 12 September 25 08:18 BST (UK)  »
The purpose of my post is that the quality of information for FH purposes clearly varies according to.social class.  We are often told these days that there is "no working class" today but that  is absurd.

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Occupation Interests / Re: Professional Footballer
« on: Thursday 11 September 25 22:28 BST (UK)  »
Yes thank you, there are some very good online sites.  I'm trying to make a slightly different point though. Unlike cricket which has Wisdens , football does not seem to have an official year book or a schoolboys version of the same.
"Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, or simply Wisden, colloquially the Bible of Cricket, is a cricket reference book published annually"

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Occupation Interests / Re: Professional Footballer
« on: Tuesday 09 September 25 09:01 BST (UK)  »
Early football has no official records or statistics books that I know of (unlike cricket needless to say) . Cricket records / statistics are continually referred to in cricket commentary, but it is rare to hear in football.  If it wasn't for the huge efforts of individual fans I doubt if rhere would be any colllections at all.

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Occupation Interests / Re: Professional Footballer
« on: Monday 08 September 25 22:52 BST (UK)  »
My amateur reading is revealing the importance of early football teams in the old industrial worker population which has changed dramatically, however the sport of football itself has never been so successful and wealthy.  A part of my FH would have supported local team West Bromwich Albion, one of the earliest teams.
 

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Occupation Interests / Professional Footballer
« on: Sunday 07 September 25 21:02 BST (UK)  »
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/MHylrKB09Y3TD3NWZrb2Qw/the-first-professional-footballer

My own FH shows some links to the early development of the Football League in the UK which is the oldest Football Championship in the world starting in the 1880s.

Interested in the early professional footballers and their
 teams.

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World War Two / Bevin Boys
« on: Monday 01 September 25 10:14 BST (UK)  »
The Bevin Boys Association is still active at

https://www.bevinboysassociation.co.uk/

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Occupation Interests / Re: Verderer
« on: Tuesday 26 August 25 20:47 BST (UK)  »
Verderers were elected officials not appointed according to local newspaper notices.

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London & Middlesex Lookup Requests / Re: Walter Ernest Senior
« on: Tuesday 26 August 25 18:42 BST (UK)  »
Okay , not going to argue.

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London & Middlesex Lookup Requests / Re: Walter Ernest Senior
« on: Monday 25 August 25 20:50 BST (UK)  »
The Lewes Racecourse gang attack on bookie Alfie Solomon and his clerk took place in June 1936.  Jimmy Spinks was sentenced to five years and up to 30 others were also imprisoned. Since 2024 the old Lewes Racecourse site has been up for sale.

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