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 […]
Most historian connected to Liverpool F.C. or football in general have taken it for granted that the flagpole at the corner of The Kop and Centenary Stand is from one of the first iron ships – The Great Eastern. But, an article in the Sheffield Evening Telegraph from […]
Saturday, August 10 – 1968 For two years, Liverpool have come within an ace of adding further successes to those they achieved in the previous three amazing season. On both occasions, however, they have slipped during the final crucial matches leading up to the championship run-in and the […]
Friday, November 2 – 1945 Merseyside dockers, at their mass meeting at Anfield football ground today, indicate by a show of hands their decision to resume work on the docks on Monday. Mr. Frank Campbell, chairman of the Merseyside Dockers’ Strike Committee (standing on the right) also signifies […]
Wednesday, August 29 – 1945 An application for the sale or lease of the Highbury Football Ground, at Fleetwood, which was constructed by Fleetwood Corporation at a cost of over £8,000 several years ago, and which has not been occupied for six years, was not entertained by the […]
May 21, 1945 Liverpool Football Club have completed arrangement for the acquisition of the Prescot Football Club ground for post-war purposes. A deputation from the Anfield board met the Prescot representatives a few days ago to discuss the details. The full Liverpool board considered the proposal and the […]
Tuesday, March 13 – 1945 Like other senior clubs, Liverpool F.C. are looking ahead to post-war requirements. Their negotiations with Prescot Cables are only one indication. Another comprehensive scheme they have in mind, though it may be some time before it comes to fruition, involves the erection of […]
Tuesday, March 13 – 1945 Liverpool F.C. are negotiating for a ground for the development of their junior sides after the war, and an approach has been made to secure a lease on the Orrell F.C. ground at Orrell Lane, at present being shared by the colts’ teams […]
July 5, 1940 Mr. J. Morton, the Tranmere Rovers trainer (left), instructing members of the public in recreative physical culture at the Rovers’ Football Ground last evening. The Tranmere club is well equipped and has a large gymnasium for this new scheme to which the public are invited […]
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 in the […]
March 4, 1940 The FA fix June 8 as final day. The Football Association yesterday decided to extend the season by five weeks, until June 8, and they have stipulated that in arranging fixtures the clubs must co-operate with officials of summer games, in order to avoid interferences […]
September 9, 1939 Ban to remain on Merseyside. The Government has decided to permit theatres, cinemas, football grounds and other places of entertainment in neutral and reception areas to reopen up to 10 p.m. as from to-day. An order to this effect has been made by Home Secretary, […]
July 27, 1939 Liverpool players reported at the Anfield ground yesterday, and Everton receive their members at Goodison Park on Monday. Mr. Will Harrop, the chairman of the Liverpool club, welcomed the players, who were fit and happy. Mr. Harrop expressed the hope that in this season of […]
Saturday, January 7 – 1939 Men at work clearing the snow from Liverpool Football Ground yesterday for to-day’s Cup-tie against Luton Town. (Liverpool Daily Post, 07-01-1939)
Friday, September 23 – 1938 Snapshot of the Wolves Robert Alexander Scott (goal, 6ft. 2in., 13st.). Born at Liverpool. Educated within a stone’s throw of Liverpool football ground. Won his schoolboy international cap in 1927. Played for local clubs, Carlton and Oakmere before joining Liverpool and becoming a […]
Sunday, June 19 – 1927 Two Liverpool players whose prowess on the bowling green is well known in the vicinity of Anfield are Tommy Lucas and Donald Mackinlay. Both are members of the Sandon Club (Liverpool and District League) situated not a hundred yards from the football ground. […]
August 20, 1923 Liverpool are optimists. The players believe they can improve upon last season’s record, and that they can again head the League chart, but there is an occasional feeling of the quietude that if anything happens to “the old brigade” there may be some little difficulty […]
Monday, July 24 – 1922 The construction of Manchester City’s new ground at Maine-road, Moss Side, in that city, will be commenced during this week, and, as we have previously announced, will be completed for the opening of the season 1923-24. Then Manchester City are hoping to have […]
Monday, February 14 – 1921 A costume carnival was held on Monday at the Liverpool Football Club’s Ground, Anfield, the proceeds to be distributed between the unemployed ex-Service men, also the Liverpool hospitals, the Liverpool Personal Service Committee, and the Variety Artistes’ Benevolent Fund. A costume procession was […]
Wednesday, November 17 – 1920 A veteran’s memories of Arcadian Liverpool Fifty years ago! The white and grey haired veterans of today, as they sit by their firesides on quiet nights, often find their thoughts fondly turning to the days when the “Evening Express” first came, were seen, […]
Monday, September 24 – 1917 Mr. George Patterson, the Liverpool F.C. secretary, informs us that to-day, at 12.5 p.m., Mrs. Tom Watson passed away. It is a coincidence that it was at the same hour on May 6, 1915, that the former Liverpool secretary passed away. Mrs. Watson […]
Monday, March 13 – 1916 Stated to be old members of the Queen’s Park Rangers Football Club, two absentees named Linkson and Nixon, of the Middlesex Regiment, were remanded for an escort at Enfield Petty Sessions, to-day. A police-sergeant said he arrested the prisoners on the Tottenham Hotspur […]
Tuesday, August 4 – 1914 To-day comes news that this morning Captain Paxton, the adjutant of the Manchester Artillery, visited the Manchester City Football Ground at Hyde Road and suggested the possibility that the ground would prove eminently suitable as a gathering place for five or six hundred […]
Saturday, July 25 – 1914 Queen’s Park Rangers Football Club are to transfer their headquarters from Park Royal to a new enclosure situated within a stone’s throw of the Stadium at Shepherd’s Bush. The new ground will be opened in January. (The Sports Argus, 25-07-1914)
Wednesday, March 11 – 1914 A well-known Manchester architect, Mr. Bernard W.H. Brameld, was was a bachelor fifty-nine years old, was found dead at his lodgings on Wednesday near a gas stove in his bedroom. There was a hole in the pipe leading to the stove, a penknife […]
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