Author: nigelfreestone1960

Loughborough on their way to play a Second Division fixture against Newton Heath (Manchester United) on 4 April 1896 discovered that their kit had been lost. Unable to borrow any…

The following obituary of Frank Gardner was published in the Leicester Mail on 9 December 1843: MR. FRANK GARDNER. one of the founders and first secretary-treasurer of Leicester Fosse, the…

Coalville Football Club founded in 1876 adopted the Sheffield rules, and published a fixture list for their inaugural season.

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…

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.…

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 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…

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…

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.…

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…