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A History of the County of Essex
… leased, with some adjoining land, to the West Ham United football club, which sub-let the house to the Boleyn Castle …
Survey of London
… cricket nets were installed and in the 1960s five-a-side football, indoor bowls and basketball were introduced. 622 …
A History of the County of Sussex
… in the early 20th century; 2 in 1992 both cricket and football were played there. An Eastergate football club and a Barnham and Eastergate cricket club based …
A History of the County of Warwick
… the employers of 'Saint Mondays' being taken off to watch football and by the workers of compulsory 'holidays' …
A History of the County of Warwick
… centres. Cricket was only one of the new 'codified' games. Football developed relatively late in Birmingham, unlike … 29 and it was not until after the formation of the Football Association in 1863 that the now well-known … Aston Villa Wesleyan Chapel: 30 the club won the English Football Association Cup in 1887, 1895, 1897, and 1905, and …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… and dissuading others, 'asking them if they would go see a football play'. 10 A brewer of Edgware was indicted in 1617, …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… had played at Starksnest field since c. 1913. 68 Southgate football club was founded c. 1883 and played on the field behind the Cherry Tree. 69 Edmonton's Norsemen football club was founded in 1895 and by 1963 there were seven football clubs in Edmonton and six in Southgate. 70 Southgate …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… friend Strong, a keen gardener who used the boys' games of football as a means of spreading dung over his field. 15 The … Rugby in 1855, became an integral part of school life. Football gradually evolved from its primitive incoherence … Nomads club shared in the foundation of the Rugby Football Union in 1871. In the same decade, hockey was …
Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
… should play any unlawful games such as dice, quoits, football and similar games, but that every strong and able …
Calendar of State Papers, Ireland
… head, and brought the same into the Island, and played at football with it." They brag likewise that they have executed …