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A History of the County of Middlesex
… the 1530s sports such as dice, cards, tennis, bowls, and football were popular, 49 and in the 18th century cockfights … in 1820. 52 The Working Mens' Institute and tennis, football, and cricket clubs were all in existence by 1895. 53 The present Hayes Football Club was founded in 1909 as the Botwell Mission …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… mid 19th century. The farm-house, near the modern Hendon football club grounds in Claremont Road, was shown in 1715 80 …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… for hockey were recorded in the 1880s, when Hampstead Town football club played in Cricklewood Lane, 14 and for tennis … Nether Court estate east of Frith Lane. Mill Hill rugby football club was founded in 1937 but had no ground in the … opened in Copthall playing fields. 19 Hendon association football club, which won the F.A. Amateur Cup in 1960 and the …
A History of the County of Sussex
… end of High Street, where a maypole was also erected. 13 Football was played in the parish before 1913, 14 possibly on … the north-east corner were converted to playing fields for football, hockey, and other sports as the village war …
Henley and the Chilterns
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs
… activities, and supported the establishment of cricket and football clubs. Nevertheless, as in the town itself, poverty …
Henley: Social and Political History
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs
… of the grammar school, which forbad pupils to play football, dice, or cards, or to swim or bathe in the river … there seems to have been a hiatus until the 1930s. 2 A football club (known later as Henley Town Football Club) was started in 1871 by Archibald Brakspear and …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… his horse. 2. He says they use unlawful games, as bowls, football, dice and cards, and that they have committed riots, …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… the King's crown, and, if I had it here, I would play at football with it." Taylor denied it, and if he said it, it …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… trusted to see the King's head run upon the ground like a football. So he was conveyed to Northampton Castle. He has …
A History of the County of Somerset
… there had been a fives court before the 1930s. 22 A football club provided the only organised recreation in 1947. …