Monday, August 11 – 1947 Rev. James Jackson, former full-back and captain of Liverpool F.C., conducted the funeral service at Anfield Cemetery yesterday of Mr.
Category: Club news
The death of Mr. William McConnell
August 6, 1947 Mr. William McConnell, 59, Liverpool Football Club Chairman, died at Dyrseth, Flintshire. (Source: Glocester Citizen: August 8, 1947)
Liverpool beat Raith Rovers in race for Muir
Thursday, July 17 – 1947 Alec Muir, Lochgelly Violet’s inside left last season, has signed for Liverpool. An Inverkeithing lad, he works in Caldwell’s Paper
Liverpool suggestion failed at Football League AGM
July 1, 1947 At the annual meeting of the Football League the four retiring clubs, Halifax Town, Southport, Mansfield, and Norwich, were re-elected, and Mansfield
Boxer forfeits title
Friday, June 6 – 1947 Ronnie James, of Swansea, has forfeited his British lightweight boxing championship and Billy Thompson, of Hickleton Main, Yorkshire, has been
Liverpool – Board of Directors – 1946/1947
Period: July ?? – 1946 to July 4 – 1947. Chairman: Mr. William Henry McConnell, J.P.; Vice-Chairman: Mr. S.R. Williams, C.C.; Board of Directors: Messrs.
An attempt to rob Liverpool Football Club
January 24, 1947 A plan to rob Liverpool Football Club with hopes of a haul of £4,000 after the Boxing Day match was alleged at
Ex-Liverpool player the new manager of Buckie Thistle
January 16, 1947 Captain Alex Smith, a former player with Buckie Thistle pre-war before signing for Liverpool, took over from Rome Tocher as manager of
Crippled child made honorary life member of Liverpool Football Club
January 11, 1947 Frederick Greaves, 16, a patient for the past five years at a hospital for crippled children near Liverpool, who has been awarded
Logan Mackenzie transferred to Liverpool
January 8, 1947 Liverpool have beaten several Scottish clubs in a brisk bidding bout for the signature of a prominent Fife amateur. The player is
Logan Mackenzie back from a trial with Liverpool F.C.
Monday, November 25 – 1946 Logan Mackenzie, prominent Fife amateur, who was on ten days’ trial for Liverpool, satisfied. Mackenzie was willing if the club
Fifer goes south to Liverpool
Thursday, November 5 – 1946 Off to Anfield to play trials for Liverpool – Logan Mackenzie, much sought Fife amateur. Tall, hefty, and 20, that’s
New Parking Places around Anfield football ground
September 21, 1946 A new Order signed by the Lord Mayor of Liverpool for the regulation of traffic and queuing to the vicinity of Liverpool
Angus youngster given trial at Liverpool
July 15, 1946 J.A. Smith, who plays centre-half or full back for Letham Undaunted (Angus), has been invited to play a trial for Liverpool. (Dundee
Taking the Cake
Thursday, June 27 – 1946 A huge cake in the form of a football field, complete with players, goalposts, nets and the record of their
Tom Bromilow the new manager of Newport
May 15, 1946 Mr. Tom Bromilow, who resigned his position as manager of Leicester City at the beginning of the season, has been appointed manager
Liverpool onboard the Queen Mary
May 8, 1946 Members of the Liverpool Football Club were passengers on the liner Queen Mary, which arrived here in Halifax Wednesday, on their way
Liverpool wanted in Toronto
May 2, 1946 New York, May 2 (BUP) – George Singleton, vice president of the Ulster United Football club of Toronto, signing a contract Tuesday
The Liverpool delegation for the Tour of USA
April 29, 1946 The Liverpool F.C. officials and players, who are going to America for a month’s tour, will sail on the Queen Mary from
Liverpool’s arrangements for Tour of USA
April 15, 1946 Liverpool F.C. have completed travel arrangements for their trip to America. They leave by the Queen Mary from Southampton on May 4.
Billy Liddell supreme
December 3. 1945 With the deference to the all-round ability of Liverpool both individually and as a team the act cannot be denied that Billy
Morning match at Anfield on Christmas Day
December 3, 1945 Three weeks to Christmas and you can start making arrangement to open the day with a good football match. Liverpool directors will
Another South African joins Liverpool
Wednesday, November 28 – 1945 Liverpool F.C., who before the war signed several South African footballers on professional forms, to-day secured another in R.H.Priday, a
Merseyside dockers returning to work on Monday
Friday, November 2 – 1945 Merseyside dockers, at their mass meeting at Anfield football ground today, indicate by a show of hands their decision to
News of Harry Chambers (“Smiler”)
September 1, 1945 It is odds how and when we meet the folk, is it not? Ben Dabbs, Liverpool’s well-remembered full back, was in our
"Play Up, Liverpool" 
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