Barking FC Historic Programmes 1

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HISTORIC PROGRAMMES NUMBER 1

 

 

 

2-9-1911 MILLWALL RESERVES v BARKING LONDON LEAGUE DIVISION 1 LOST 5-0

 

 

 

This is the oldest programme involving Barking that I have and have heard of. The season started on September 2^nd and this was the 1^st game . We lost 5-0 but narrowed the gap in the home match later in the season ,losing 3-1.Millwall Reserves finished the season 2^nd to West Ham United Reserves while we were bottom in 7^th place with just 1 victory over Catford Southend 4-1.However we were champions of the South Essex League Division 1 and the teams below us included Colchester Town, Chelmsford, Grays Athletic and Romford Town.

 

 

 

We won the London Senior Cup beating Newportonians 8-1,Kilburn 3-0,Pinner 6-0,Leytonstone

 

3-0,Catford Southend 3-2,Dulwich Hamlet 2-1 and London Caledonians 3-0 in the final at Clapton.

 

We reached the 4^th round of the F A Amateur Cup beating Custom House 4-2,Clapton 2-1,Oxford City 2-0 before losing 5-2 away to Eston United. Eston is near Middlesbrough. We played a total of 47 games during the season.

 

 

 

At that time Milwall’s 1^st team was in the Southern League.There are no programme notes but supporters are warned to beware of pirate programmes on sale outside the ground. Our listed team was T.W.Robinson,C.Garland, C.Bradley,W.F.Barker,F.Chester,A.Featherstone,A.J.Joynes, C.Worboys,C.Mooney,G.Bell and J.Robery.

 

 

 

Charles Bradley played for England at amateur level in 1913.

 

 

 

The programme cost one penny. The advertisements include that evening’s show at the New Cross Empire including Up To date Acrobatic Cyclists, a unique Vocal and Terpsichorean Act and a New Series of up to date subjects on the American Bioscope (ie films -DP). Top of the bill was G.H.Elliott “the Chocolate Coon “(sic) who was a white man who wore the minstrel make up which was as insulting as his nickname.When my parents acquired our first television set in 1953 one of the acts regularly appearing was the same G.H.Elliott still using the same pseudonym.

 

 

 

Apart from the East London Railway the other advertisements were all for public houses or whisky.The Crown and Anchor offered dinners from 8d ,teas from 4d and the best cup of tea in New Cross for 1d (d = pre decimalisation penny), was the noted house for footballers and stored bicycles for 2d while The Five Bells offered nourishing stout and wines and spirits of the finest quality.The programme was printed by H.Peterken ,Steam Printer (T.U.).