Coalville FC Fixture List 1876-77
Coalville Football Club founded in 1876 adopted the Sheffield rules, and published a fixture list for their inaugural season.
Football Match by Electric Light
FLOODLIGHT MATCH & BICYCLE EVENT BICYCLE RACE. Shortly after seven o’clock, a one-mile bicycle race was commenced. There were 11 entries for the event, but only five put in an…
Leicester Fosse Financial Statement 1884-85
The first financial statement for Leicester Fosse, which provides a fascinating insight into nineteenth century football, reported a surplus of 1 shilling 10 old pence (9p – equivalent to approx.…
Coalville Munitionettes
During World War I more than 900,000 women joined the two million Brits already working in munitions factories making bombs, shells, bullets and cartridges imperative to the British war effort.…
Dick, Kerr’s Ladies FC
Dick, Kerr Ladies F.C. founded in Preston, Lancashire as a World War I-era works team for the company Dick, Kerr & Co. was one of the earliest known women’s association…
Football Funeral Cards
The football funeral card above belonged to Sam Bailey who played for the Fosse and lived in Loughborough. He had altered the match date on the card from the original…
Loughborough FC 1870s
Reading from left to right – Hickling; Pickering; G. Bromhead; T. Mills; H. Perkins; W. Cockain; W. Wright; Jas. Cartwright; J. Tyler. Front row:- T.B. Cartwright; A. Mounteney; H. North.…
Trading Cards
Oval shaped Baines collecting card, featuring ‘Well Played Fosse’ and a footballer wearing a shirt with chocolate brown and Cambridge blue halves, with white ‘knickers’, with dark ‘stockings’. The card…
Walnut-Street Enclosure
This is the earliest plan known of the Walnut-street (Filbert-street) ground, which was published (Leicester Journal – Friday 18 August 1893) prior to the start of the 1893-94 season. Spectators…