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This article was in the programme for the postponed Tonbridge Angels game HAMPTON, AROUND AND ABOUT Things you may not know, or didn’t know you knew! No 18 William Ray Coryton Vice-President in 1921 Some more digging into the people involved in the setting up of Hampton FC in 1921 has unearthed Will...

HAMPTON, AROUND AND ABOUT Things you may not know, or didn’t know you knew! No 17 FIRST ELEVEN (Part 2) What do we know about them? Part 2 of a look at an early team list of Hampton players from the first friendly, played on 27th August 1921. According to Volume 1 of the Club History (Vols 1 & 2...

HAMPTON, AROUND AND ABOUT Things you may not know, or didn’t know you knew! No 16 FIRST ELEVEN (Part 1) What do we know about them? In a perfect world we would know the line-up for Hampton’s first ever league game in the debut 1921/22 season, Sadly, that is not possible. The nearest we have, relates...

HAMPTON, AROUND AND ABOUT Things you may not know, or didn’t know you knew! No 15 CAPTAIN CHRISTIE CRAWFURD Last Private Owner of the Beveree Estate In a number of articles over the years, I have written about Captain Christie Crawfurd (1859 – 1948), the last owner of the Beveree Estate. However, wi...

HAMPTON, AROUND AND ABOUT Things you may not know, or didn’t know you knew! No 14 CYRIL BEEKS Player/Vice-Chairman/Life Member The previous article looked at the Blair Cup and included a photo of the team who lost out in the Semi-Final in 1922. One of the members of the team was Cyril Beeks (1900 – ...

Zach Robinson AFC Wimbledon, Striker; Leo Hamblin, Woking, Left Back; Shane Dunne, Woking, Def Midfielder

Great stuff, Tony.

Excellent research, Tony.

This article was in the postponed Eastbourne Borough game. HAMPTON, AROUND AND ABOUT Things you may not know, or didn’t know you knew! No 13 THE BLAIR CUP A Charity Cup Competition between the two World Wars I decided that for this article I would look back to the early days of Hampton FC and, in pa...

Due to a Covid outbreak, Eastbourne Borough are unable to fulfil the fixture on Boxing Day.

This was in the programme for the recently postponed Braintree game....... HAMPTON, AROUND AND ABOUT Things you may not know, or didn’t know you knew! No 12 G S MARLOW and W A COOKE Shadowy Figures from 1921 Continuing my research into names from the earliest days of Hampton FC… Mentioned in Tony’s ...

HAMPTON, AROUND AND ABOUT Things you may not know, or didn’t know you knew! No 11 N D ALLBLESS Club Founder & Vice-President Nowrijee Dadabhoy Allbless was born in India and was educated in Bombay and then at Cambridge University. Called to the Bar, he commenced practice in Bombay before travell...