Thought I'd Died and Gone to Heaven/Non League Directory 2012

[Kaiser Gibbs Batman (KGB)]

Just opened my copy 2012 at the Slough Town page to find a team photograph which translated to "on the pitch" would be:

 

Reynolds

Gamblin Sleap

Hatt, Delaney, Hartridge

Stevens Bell Connell Kent Gaynor

 

Sub: Clarke

 

If only!

[Brummie Rebel]

Happy days !

Was this the mid 60's ? Any know the date ?

PS Does anyone remember when the floodlights were installed at the Dolphin please?

[Harmston Rebel]

Hi,

 

I believe the floodlights were installed in the 1965/66 season. The Mithras home cup tie v Oxford City due under lights had to be played at Chesham, because they were not quite ready at the Dolphin. Official opening was against Watford which was lost 4-1 with 2,000 attending. First season in the Wycombe Floodlit League which Slough won having scored most goals.

 

UP THE REBELS!

[Kaiser Gibbs Batman (KGB)]

I reckon the photograph dates from sometime during the 1968/69 season since Kenny Kent appears and he was precluded from signing for Slough during the Athenian League championship season, 1967/68. Other new recruits that summer were England internationals Derek Gamblin and Roy Sleap.

 

I have the programme from the Watford game which took place on 14 March 1966. The editorial explains some of the difficulties the club encountered sourcing and installing the floodlights and also advises that full membership then cost seven shillings and sixpence! The floodlights were extremely impressive, not the least because the pylons could be seen from the train. This made it look as if the town had a Football League ground at a time when most non-league clubs' floodlights were of the four lowish pylons down each side variety. Their installation was followed by the erection of the equally impressive Supporters' Club headquarters adjacent to the Uxbridge Road end of the ground. Those were heady days for Slough supporters and certainly none of us run-of-the mill fans would have had any inkling that the club would have left the Dolphin by mid-1974.