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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...

BTW, Volume 2 of the History of Hampton & Richmond Borough FC (Tony Nash & Les Rance) is now available, £14 from Amazon or from the Club Shop.

HAMPTON, AROUND AND ABOUT Things you may not know, or didn’t know you knew! No 10 THE SOUTHERN COMBINATION CUP Most Cup Wins – Beavers! In this centenary season a look back to our successful Southern Combination Cup campaigns. The Southern Combination Challenge Cup Competition (to give it its full n...

HAMPTON, AROUND AND ABOUT Things you may not know, or didn’t know you knew! No 9 CAPTAIN WENDEN BUSH Original Committee Member Another dip into the early days of Hampton FC, Captain Wenden Bush, 1921/22 Committee Member. So, what do we know about Captain Wenden Ray Bush, he was born in Ealing in 189...

HAMPTON, AROUND AND ABOUT Things you may not know, or didn’t know you knew! No 8 THE TECK CUP Won by Hampton FC on several occasions The Teck Cup is a competition that features quite often in Hampton’s history. In the period up to World War 2, it is known that Hampton was successful on a number of o...

HAMPTON, AROUND AND ABOUT Things you may not know, or didn’t know you knew! No 7 YOU HAVE BEEN SELECTED…….. How things worked in 1923 It’s August 1923 and W V Parker, living at 30 Belgrade Road, wants to play football on a Saturday afternoon. His favoured position is left-back and he secures a trial...

From what I could ascertain it was a council decision. The stadium is owned by Elmbridge and on Friday they apprently contacted the club and insisted on segregation as they were predicting a 1,000 crowd! Not sure where this info came from. Total waste of resources. Crowd was 658. Compliments to the ...