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Post by stantheman7 on Dec 24, 2008 21:55:18 GMT
firstly a merry xmas to you all .
I've just spoke to my brother who works for wedgewoods museum and he tells me about a letter from one of the wedgewood family he found in the archives with relates to football fans fighting at stoke station in or around 1908 but no mention as to which fans they are .
in short does anybody have an idea of where to start to try and find out anymore information .
grateful for any help or info .
stantheman
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Post by trebor63 on Dec 24, 2008 22:09:16 GMT
This won't be much help but at least its a start! You can see which teams were in which league in 1907-08 and 1908-09 I'm sure people with the Stoke encyclopedia will be able to narrow the hunt down more! www.rsssf.com/engpaul/FLA/league.html |
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Post by daverichards on Dec 24, 2008 22:14:50 GMT
1907/08 Stoke were in division 2, in the summer of 1908 Stoke FC went bust, and a new club Stoke FC (1908) ltd were formed and played in the Birmingham and District League
The encyclopedia doesn't mention any trouble, but as it happened at the station its unlikely to
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Post by bogus on Dec 24, 2008 22:18:17 GMT
Hanley Library/museum archives, perhaps?
If you can get a date from the Wedgwood document, you could perhaps find some news document from that date in the Library archives.
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Post by stantheman7 on Dec 24, 2008 22:21:35 GMT
thanks for the replies gents , i'll pass the info on
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Post by lancer on Dec 25, 2008 11:39:07 GMT
Just looked at the 1948/49 season final table, my first season as a Stokie( my first game was against Man City. I'm not quite sure of the score as I was more interested watching silly blokes jumping up and down shouting. Thank God we're more refined now) but I think we won 2-0.
See we ended up safe, 11th, with 41 points from 42 games that season.
Just need a couple of extra wins to make sure, as we'll need more than 41 from less games. Come on, Stoke!!!!!.
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Post by mitchstokie on Dec 25, 2008 12:44:38 GMT
I think one of them could be the axe man acording to the naughty forty stoke book he got hit by a train suspect he was fighting
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Post by mermaidsal on Dec 25, 2008 20:49:32 GMT
Have a word with the Sentinel, I bet they'll have it in the archives, don't they keep all old editions on microfilm?
(This isn't a forensic enquiry on behalf of GMP is it? ;D)
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Post by daverichards on Dec 25, 2008 20:56:05 GMT
and if the sentinel don't know, ask OldStokie, sure he must have been there  |
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