Cigarette Anyone?

[seahawk10]

Was looking for Reading Football Club images on google and stumbled across this:



What year would this be from?

[seahawk10]

Really cool stuff on this website:

http://www.chrisdlee.com/


1894-95


1907

[seahawk10]

[bobbybottler]

Was looking for Reading Football Club images on google and stumbled across this:



What year would this be from?

Bert Eggo was our captain in the 1920s so some time around then.

[Arch]

Big LOL @ Richie Bowman getting included among that lot.

[bobbybottler]

Loving this one - any thoughts as to where it might have been taken?

[Arch]

Loving this one - any thoughts as to where it might have been taken?

Elm Park, of course. now Seahawk can see what our old ground was really like.

[floyd__streete]

Was looking for Reading Football Club images on google and stumbled across this:



What year would this be from?

Bert Eggo was our captain in the 1920s so some time around then.

I believe that he captained the club to our first ever football league divisional title in 1925/26 (Division III South) and also the FA Cup run to the semi-final the following season.

[Jimmy the Tree]

Loving this one - any thoughts as to where it might have been taken?

Elm Park, of course. now Seahawk can see what our old ground was really like.

That's not Elm Park, Picture says 1894-95, we didn't move into EP untill 1896. Probably Caversham.

[Hampshire Royal]

Looking at the 1894/95 photo, all the players are wearing the same strip. I assume that one of them must have been a goalkeeper, so was it not necessary for keepers to wear a different colour shirt to the rest of the team? When did that law come in?

[Jimmy the Tree]

A quick google search suggests that Keepers first used a different shirt to the rest of the team in the 1909 season for the Scottish League.
Before that they used a cap.

[1960]

I'm surprised that Tredder hasn't intervened here. These old photos shoot out of the water any ideas that we were the origional hoops and QPR the fake hoops. They started wearing green hoops in 1904 and blue hoops from 1927.

Evidence: http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Queens_ ... angers.htm

So let's have no more talk about us being the original hoops please.

[Thaumagurist*]

These old photos shoot out of the water any ideas that we were the origional hoops and QPR the fake hoops.

No, they don't. We wore the hoops in 1871. Then we switched to those.

So let's have no more talk about us being the original hoops please.

Absolutely not, because you are wrong.

[strap]

I'm surprised that Tredder hasn't intervened here. These old photos shoot out of the water any ideas that we were the origional hoops and QPR the fake hoops. They started wearing green hoops in 1904 and blue hoops from 1927.

Evidence: http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Queens_ ... angers.htm

So let's have no more talk about us being the original hoops please.

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. PLEASE go along to Amazon and order yourself a copy of Alan Sedunary's "Heaven on Earth". Open the book to page 9.

[Jimmy the Tree]

I'm surprised that Tredder hasn't intervened here. These old photos shoot out of the water any ideas that we were the origional hoops and QPR the fake hoops. They started wearing green hoops in 1904 and blue hoops from 1927.

Evidence: http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Queens_ ... angers.htm

So let's have no more talk about us being the original hoops please.

Use your own 'Evidence' (not sure how reliable that site is) we were hoops from 1872-1891.

http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Reading/Reading.htm

[Thaumagurist*]

I'm surprised that Tredder hasn't intervened here. These old photos shoot out of the water any ideas that we were the origional hoops and QPR the fake hoops. They started wearing green hoops in 1904 and blue hoops from 1927.

Evidence: http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Queens_ ... angers.htm

So let's have no more talk about us being the original hoops please.

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. PLEASE go along to Amazon and order yourself a copy of Alan Sedunary's "Heaven on Earth". Open the book to page 9.

Or even check out the first picture in this book:

http://www.borders.co.uk/book/reading-f ... and/26384/



seahawk - you might be interested in buying this book, I'd recommend it. Lots of old pictures right up to 1997.

[PlasticRoyale]

Loving this one - any thoughts as to where it might have been taken?

Hoofball merchants apparently...

[torbayroyal]

Loving this one - any thoughts as to where it might have been taken?

Elm Park, of course. now Seahawk can see what our old ground was really like.

That's not Elm Park, Picture says 1894-95, we didn't move into EP untill 1896. Probably Caversham.

Before Elm park I believe that we played at the kensington road sports ground. It was owned by Huntley and Palmers after that. I am in exile by the sea now so I don't know who owns it now.

All those players on the cigarette cards are dead now. let that be a lesson. SMOKING KILLS

[bobby m's syrup]

I think that Kings Meadow was our original home, but we later moved to Caversham Cricket club in 1889, staying for some 7 years. As Caversham was in Oxfordshire at the time, we have played our home games in 2 counties.

[Arch]

Loving this one - any thoughts as to where it might have been taken?

Elm Park, of course. now Seahawk can see what our old ground was really like.

That's not Elm Park, Picture says 1894-95, we didn't move into EP untill 1896. Probably Caversham.

Are you interested in having a debate about this?