History site update - anybody remember Gertrude Thornton ?

[Jeff Trice]

Added some great photos today....

 

http://www.margatefchistory.com/Gertrude%20Thornton.shtml

[Drummer]

Absolute knockout photos Jeff; I remember Gertrude Thornton, especially seeing the photo of her with the little doll - that really triggered it.

 

In the group photo outside the Club hut I believe that the man wearing the cap is Leslie Wheeler who conducted the Winter Gardens Orchestra for many years.

 

Great stuff as ever.

[Jeff Trice]

Thanks for that Gary, I think they're brilliant photos. Been really lucky recently with players / relatives etc contacting me and providing info / pictures for the site.

 

You've mentioned Leslie Wheeler's name to me before - he must be in another photo somewhere on the site - and I've now updated the caption on the picture taken outside the Supporters Club hut. I'd never seen a photo of the hut before.

[Coffin Ender]

Looks like a formidable woman who would surely have dealt promptly with any young fellows making references to the Weimar Republic.

[Jeff Trice]

I think the Weimar Republic had left the Kent League by the time Gertrude starting watching Margate.

[Coffin Ender]

_{A Pickelhaube would have been useful at matches against Ramsgate.}

[Jeff Trice]

Margate had a player with the surname Holderman in the very early 1900's who may have been German - surname could actually have been Holdermann. Another Holderman(n) played in the 1940's, possibly the early 1900's players son. I'm sure you knew this already though.

[Drummer]

Wasn't there a German reserve team full back in the early 1950's called Gerd Geissen? I seem to recall an article in the Thanet Gazette referring to the full back pairing of him and Jimmy Evans with a nickname given them by the rest of the team "Gerd & Daisy". For the younger readers of this was a refence to a variety act "Gert & Daisy".

[Jeff Trice]

That does ring a bell Gary, also had Danish keeper Knud Knudsen during 1947/48. Not totally convinced his first name was Knud though ! Must have been a season for exotic keepers as 1947/48 was when Tony Gallego made his appearance.

Edited January 31, 2012 by Jeff Trice