Back

Burton Latimer Wanderers FC

1925/26

The club and the year are known from the information in the photo, but we have very few names of the people in the photo. The photo shows the First Team (in the plain jerseys) and the Reserves (in the striped jerseys). The club also went by the name of Burton Park Wanderers, as they were based in the area of Newman Street, Spencer Street and Rosebery Street which at the time was commonly referred to as “The Park”.

A number of the players may also have been members of the Methodist Chapel in Duke Street, which did not run its own teams, unlike St Mary’s or the Baptist Churches, so this club may have served as a sports outlet for the men of the chapel.

The photo has been taken in a garden behind the then lawn (currently the car park) of the Britannia Club, the side wall of which can be seen on the right of the picture.

Back Row: 1. —-?—-, 2. Jack Drage, 3. —-?—-, 4. —-?—-, 5. —-?—-, 6. —-?—-, 7. —-?—-, 8. —-?—-

Middle Row: 1. —-?—-, 2. —-?—-, 3. —-?—-, 4. —-?—-, 5. —-?—-, 6. —-?—-, 7. H Desborough, 8. —-?—-

Front Row: 1. Herbert Chester, 2. —-?—-, 3. —-?—-, 4. —-?—-, 5. —-?—-, 6. —-?—-, 7. Jack Chester, 8. —-?—-9. —-?—-, 10. —-?—-

If you can add any of the missing names, please get in touch

More from this category

The Show Will Go On

The Show Will Go On

Article from Kettering Evening Telegraph dated 9 February 1995Brian McFarlane and hisassistant, Sharon FogliettaSTARGATE will be on at Burton Latimer cinema tomorrow despite a £5,000 burglary. All the sound equipment was stolen in a burglary at the Ohio, in High...

Feasts meant fun, not fights – in the days gone by

Feasts meant fun, not fights – in the days gone by

Letter to the Northants Advertiser, July 1960Although this letter to the local free paper was prompted by a previous article on Kettering Feast and is fcised on Kettering, it is reproduced here because it mentions a number of Burton people who were 'show-folk', and...

Richard Gleed-Owen’s Fountainebleau Memories

Richard Gleed-Owen’s Fountainebleau Memories

The camp was organised for the Burton Latimer scouts by aformer member, John Christian, serving with N.A.T.O. in France.Letters for the boys went through him as can be seen by theexample aboveJust two of the letters sent out by Jack Addis (Skip) to ensure it all went...

Back