I have come across a new article that tells a story from the 1892 split within the Everton Football Club (which of course led to the formation of Liverpool Football Club). Newspaper reports regarding the split is not very neutral. They were either very pro the Clayton/Mahon part […]
The clean shaved young man, seated on the right of the middle row, is an eighteen year old player who had recently established himself in the first eleven of an Everton Football Club who are pictured here. As he gazes to-wards the camera, and watches for the birdie, […]
In this article I will tell you about my meeting with the West family and what I have found out about the man who was the Liverpool F.C: auditor of years’ long gone by. Donald and Peter West. One could feel the proud satisfaction of the West family […]
Here you will find the signatures of old Liverpool players, directors and managers that I have found on ancestry.co.uk. They are from the 1911 Census and also contain the address where they were living at the time. John Houlding (from the Everton Collection): William Barclay (from the Everton […]
The Shieldrake, Catalona, Mongolian, Labrador, Caloric and the Bonnie Princess. They all sat sail from the docks of Liverpool on Thursday, September 1, 1892. The Bonnie Princess was just crossing the Mersey while the Catalonia was off to Boston at four in the afternoon. On-board the Mongolian was […]
Season President Comments, info 1892-1893 J. Houlding 1893-1894 J. Houlding 1894-1895 J. Houlding 1895-1896 J. Houlding 1896-1897 J. Houlding 1897-1898 J. Houlding 1898-1899 J. Houlding 1899-1900 J. Houlding 1900-1901 J. Houlding 1901-1902 J. Houlding 1902-1903 No President 1903-1904 No President 1904-1905 No President 1905-1906 No President 1906-1907 No […]
Friday, April 8 – 1938 A proposed brewery amalgamation is the subject of negotiation. The companies concerned are Ind. Coope and Allsopp, Limited and Houlding’s Brewery Company, Limited. Ind. Coope and Allsopp have five breweries working, one being in Liverpool and the others at Burton-on-Trent (two), Romford, and […]
Wednesday, April 6 – 1938 It was announced yesterday that Ind. Coope and Allsopp, Ltd., had acquired the shares of Houlding’s Brewery Company, Ltd., of Liverpool. Founded in 1864, Houlding’s Brewery Company own 18 hotels and public houses. The company will not lose their identity, and will continue […]
March 23, 1936 My dearest football friend, John McKenna, has played out time and retired to his rest. Honest John McKenna. The name will never be lost to memory, because this president of the Football League had done so much for everybody in connection with the game. He […]
Friday, November 16 – 1934 Mr. John Alexander Brodie, formerly joint engineer of the £8,000,000 Mersey Tunnel, and a man who completely altered the face of Liverpool during his 27 years as city engineer, died to-day at his home, Aigburth Hall. Aigburth, aged 76. One of Mr. Brodie’s […]
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 […]
November 21, 1927 There are men in football today who have spent a life-time in the game – forty, fifty years of more. It is the intention of the Athletic News to tell theur story – to give their impressions of the start of things, the quaint old […]
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 – […]
Saturday, April 25 – 1925 Victor Hall Pays Tribute to Alderman John Houlding There are still many men living who will cherish, while memory endures the name of John Houlding, one-time Lord Mayor of Liverpool, and the creator of the Liverpool Football Club. Indeed, the Everton club, with […]
Saturday, February 21 – 1925 Famous old timers – John James Ramsay By Victor Hall It would be almost a misnomer to speak only of the work of the late James Ramsay as being for the Liverpool club, because it was really for all Liverpool football. By that […]
Friday, October 4 – 1918 First information is here given of the death of Mr. James Ramsay, ex-director of Liverpool F.C. He had been connected with Liverpool ever since the club was born, right away to the Houlding days. In later days he spent most of his time […]
Saturday, October 6 – 1917 A little brochure entitled “Chronicles of the West” or the history of the Tophetites and the Holdemites from the writings of the scribs Ahs was published locally by a Mr. Weddell about a month previous to the first meeting of Everton and Liverpool, […]
Thursday, May 6 – 1915 We regret to announce the death of Mr. Tom Watson, secretary of the Liverpool Football Club, which occurred at his residence, Priory-road, Liverpool, early this afternoon. Mr. Watson was present at the match between South Liverpool and Liverpool last Thursday, and was in […]
April 24, 1915 Best International side Scotland ever turned out. Lord Rosebery’s tribute to the players. The one ground Alick Raisbeck disliked. I have already told you about my first International game for Scotland in 1896. My next honour fell in 1900, and it was in that game […]
December 9, 1908 We regret to announce the death of Mr. George Mahon, which took place on Wednesday. For some considerable time Mr. Mahon had been seriously ill, and to his immediate friends his passing away will occasion no surprise. The late Mr. Mahon was a remarkable man, […]
June 21, 1905 The 12th annual general meeting of the shareholders of the Liverpool Football Club and Athletic Grounds Company, Ltd., was held at the Carlton Hall, Eberle Street, on Wednesday evening, when Mr. Edwin Berry, C.C., presided over a large attendance. Mr. Tom Watson, the secretary, in […]
Monday, January 23 – 1905 An important step in the history of the Liverpool Football Club was taken yesterday. At the Lancashire Court of Chancery, St. George’s Hall, before Vice-Chancellor Hall, an application was made by the executors and trustees of the late Alderman John Houlding to sanction […]
October 29, 1904 The election of Mr. Edwin Berry, C.C., to the chairmanship of the Liverpool Football Club will be received with a vast amount of pleasure by all who take an interest in the winter game. The time has gone by when players managed their own little […]
August 23, 1902 During the off season Liverpool lost by death their present and financial mainstay, Alderman John Houlding, J.P., but his son, Councillor W. Houlding, makes a capital successor. Whether from economy or affection Liverpool do not usually make so many changes, and old favourites, or “old […]
Saturday, March 22 – 1902 The demise of Ald. John Houlding, the ex-Lord Mayor of Liverpool, will be a serious loss to Merseyside football, and particularly by the present holders of the League trophy. Without his help that club would have been a practical impossibility. It is all […]
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