Tuesday, May 3 – 2016 Barca looking to gain insight into how to redevelop a football ground while continuing to play in it. Officials from Barcelona have twice visited Anfield to gain insight into how to redevelop a football ground while continuing to play in it. Liverpool’s Main […]
By Tony Onslow. The present Merseyside Derby games are contested between Everton and their close neighbours Liverpool. The event attracts a capacity crowd to Goodison Park where, in 1894, the two sides had first met in a Football League match. The occasion also taxes the capacity of the […]
Wednesday, August 4 – 1982 The football world is left in disbelief this morning at the news that Liverpool made a loss last season. That loss in their financial year ending april 30 was made despite winning the European Cup in 1981 and the League and League Cup […]
Wednesday, August 22 – 1961 An office colleague, Mrs. Amy Gibson, has unearthed a remarkable file of sports magazines, “Out of Doors,” published in Liverpool in 1892. The material, photographs and sketches are fascinating. Here with sketches is what the first issue said of the original Goodison Park […]
Tuesday, August 10 – 1954 Liverpool in a hurry for promotion – and ready to spend “Back in a season” – Don Welsh One season will be enough for Liverpool – first post-war League champions and now in Division II – to get back to the top division, […]
Saturday, October 2 – 1948 (Liverpool F.C. Match Programme, 02-10-1948) Key words: Anfield, football ground, Liverpool, buses, trams, Leyfield Road, Old Swan, Norris Green, Lodge Lane, Smithdown Road, Walton Breck Road, Oakfield Road, Anfield Road, Arkles Lane.
Saturday, 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 Football ground issued by way of public advertisement comes in time for the great “derby” game today between Everton and Liverpool […]
Thursday, August 16 – 1945 Liverpool Football Club. – The Directors announce that Members’ Season Tickets for 1945-6 are now on sale, available for Football League and Central League matches. Price £2 11s. (inc. tax). Reserved with members’ name attached, 10 6 extra. Holders of shareholders’ tickets can […]
Monday, July 30 – 1945 (Evening Express, 30-07-1945) season tickets, Anfield, Central League, Football League, shareholders, Anfield Road, reserved seat.
Tuesday, June 25 – 1940 One of the finest full backs English football has known and one of the nicest of men, Tommy Cooper, idol of Derby football crowds for a period of years, was killed yesterday in a road accident near Aldeburgh, Suffolk. “Snowy,” as he was […]
Saturday, May 4 – 1940 The Sandon Hotel in Oakfield Road would be found to be connected prominently with football if ever the history of the game as made in Liverpool came to be chronicled. Everton F.C. became a power there, Liverpool F.C. had its birth there, and […]
September 30, 1939 1878 – Formation of the St. Domingo Football Club by members of the New Connexion Chapel, Everton. First games played in Stanley Park; original colours, blue and white stripes. 1879 – Name changed to Everton. First match v. local St. Peter’s. 1880 – First railway […]
September 21, 1939 Liverpool F.C. will admit soldiers and sailors in uniform (which includes RAF men) to Saturday’s match at Anfield at half price. Special turnstiles will be set apart for them at the Walton Breck Road and Anfield Road ends of the ground. Good for Liverpool. All […]
Thursday, August 3 – 1939 (Evening Express, 03-08-1939) Liverpool, season tickets, Anfield Road, club offices, Grand Stand, Kemlyn Road Stand, numbered seats, reserved seats
Tuesday, April 11 – 1939 Miss Winnifred Parkinson (left), and her sister, Miss Elsie Parkinson, leaving the Church of St. Simon and St. Jude, Anfield-road, Liverpool, with their bridegrooms, Mr. Edmund Houghton and Mr. H. Trevor Jones. The bride’s father is Mr. John Parkinson, a former Liverpool F.C. […]
Thursday, January 9 – 1936 The gale last night wrought havoc with shipping and property on various parts of the coast. A large stand covering the Anfield end of the Liverpool Football Ground was blown away and fell into Anfield Road, a main thoroughfare. The road had to […]
Thursday, December 20 – 1934 Leicester officials have paid a good deal of attention lately to Liverpool reserve games. If Barry Nieuwenhuys, the South African winger, is the magnet – as there is good reason to believe – the Filberts will be out of luck. “Nivvy” is a […]
Born: January 17 – 1860, in Liverpool (Lancashire), in England. Passed away: March 16 – 1933, in Marlybone (London), in England. Timeline: 1860, February 16: Baptism, St. Peter’s, Liverpool. 1861 Census: Residence Kirkdale, aged 1. 1871 Census: Residence North Meols, Lancashire, aged 11. 1895, September 11: Marriage to […]
Monday, June 20 – 1927 Liverpool are utilising their financial resources wisely in providing for the comfort of their supporters. As we announced in the Athletic News a week ago they had a profit of £5,955 on last season’s working, and they have a credit balance of £36,088, […]
Saturday, November 20 – 1926 The rise of the Liverpool club furnishes something of a romance in the history of football. In its comparatively short existence, all that the pioneers of the Anfield Road organisation set out to attain, with the one exception – the English Cup – […]
August 17, 1926 Liverpool F.C. will begin the campaign with practically the same eleven that carried them into the top half of the League last season. There have been no new signings since May, and the only player of note who has departed is Walter Wadsworth, centre-half. He […]
April 25, 1925 Mr. Jack Wildman, of Bolton, writes: – “I would just like to say that I came to live in Bolton, from Liverpool, in 1887. I had been a playing member of the Everton F.C for a few years before they went to Anfield Road. I […]
Monday, September 22 1924 The death has occurred of Mr. John T. Atkinson, who played a large part in the development of football on Merseyside thirty years ago. He was on the committee of the Everton club when it was located at Anfield-road, and he became a director […]
Saturday, September 20 – 1924 Fred Geary – Who gave goalkeepers something to talk about. “From the succeeding centre Geary scored, giving the goalkeeper no chance to save.” These lines might almost have been kept in type by the newspapers that reported football matches in the days when […]
Saturday, November 3 – 1923 Lord Derby advised the Liverpool Football Club to-day that the Prime Minister (Mr. Stanley Baldwin) would join him in visiting the Liverpool – Huddersfield Town game at Liverpool this afternoon. It is the first time that the Premier has been to a First […]
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