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Position 10th out of 14

FAC

Pr

Met Police

0-5

AC

2q

Redhill

0-5

LC

1st

Ekco

1-2

SSC

1q

Devas Institute

1-4

Home
Ground:

West Street, Ewell

Club Colours

Light & Dark Blue Quarters and Light and
Dark Blue Halves

President

No President it appears

Chairman

Albert E Tuck

v-c Bill (WV) Townsend

Secretary

Harry Hawke

45 Montague Avenue, Sanderstead Tel:
Sanderstead 2319

Press
Secretary

EA Taylor

"Treize" West Hill, Epsom. Tel: Epsom
9036

Manager

Selection Committee of Charlie Aldridge, Reg
Olney, and Ernest Taylor

Treasurer

Leonard Arthur (LA) Prince

22 Holman Road, Cox Lane, West Ewell

Trainer

Sid Bristow

Committee:

Len (LJ) Anderson, Charlie Aldridge, N Bruce,
WI Bowe, H.Darch, FC Hutchins, E.Johns,

George King, HE Macdonald, Reg (RH) Olney, CJ
Pritchard, H Ruddle,  AE Shelbert,

FM Stewart, Ernest (EA) Taylor, WV Thompson,
Ted (CE) Wheal

Programme
Notes

Reg Olney credited in Surrey Comet Dec 46.

Mr Darch in
the Supporters Club Hut

Club Captain:

Ernie Watkins

Assistant:

Fred Chitty

May 46
Advertiser says that speakers urged Epsom Town to amalgamate with Epsom at
their agm.

See 45/46
comments for further details, but it is reported on 4th Sept that Epsom Town
"were now

defunct
because of a lack of a ground"

Epsom Town
drawn at Kingstonian in FA Cup but scratched as a result of
amalgamation/folding.

Additional
First and second team records in THE BOOK

London League
re-constituted with a Premier and First Division this year.

Edgware,
Uxbridge and Carshalton Ath left for the Corinthian League, which Epsom Town
had just

withdrawn
from. Vickers Armstrong left for Surrey Senior League, and Walton & H Res
also left.

I was contacted in November 2012 by John Prince (70),
living in Seaford now, but formerly living in West Ewell, Epsom

and Bookham. His father was Leonard Arthur Prince. He was
born in Teddington and married in about 1936, moving to

Kendall Avenue where they lived for four years. In 1940 it
appears that they moved to 22 Holman Road, off Ruxley Lane

and also
lived in Burnett Grove, near Court Rec. He was Treasurer for three years
before becoming assistant to

A.M.Thompson who succeeded him, because he took a more
active role with the Epsom & Ewell Youth League from

1949, the
year our Juniors reformed and played in its first division. He was a bank
clerk and was ideally suited to the

Treasurer
role. He died in 1972 aged 64.

John was born in 1942 and spent many times at the ground
when he was young. He described the old ground in much

detail, referring to a urinal at the back of the Main
stand, a wooden hut near the big main entrance, which was in West

Street but it was the entrance near the dressing rooms.
This was where Leonard Prince would spend much of his time.

He also referred to a gate between the covered banking at
the West Street end and the dressing rooms. He said there

were steps
running down to West Street from outside the entrance. This gate had been
replaced by more corrugated

fencing by the time I started watching, and of course the
banking was replaced by a club house. It is likely that it was a

players and officials entrance, with the big entrance used
by coaches and the smaller, main entrance with the turnstiles,

as there
would have been so many watching in those days, it made sense to accommodate
them separately.

He used to know the Gill family as he went to school with
one or other of Bobby and Pat Gill's children, either Ann or

John Robert Gill, who lost an arm in an explosion while he
and a friend were playing in a shed with flammable items. He

lost touch with them in 1953 but believes Bobby had died
by then. He is certain he didn't live to be very old, yet there is

no mention in any of the club programmes or the local
papers, which I would have expected. He originally thought he'd

died in 1948 but I advised he had played a match that
season aged 44, so he thought it may have been later. However,

John was very lucid and was able to explain also that
Bobby's brother Maurice (Morrie) moved to Australia in the early

fifties and was fairer haired than Bobby. The Gill's used
to live in a road that "runs parallel to Ruxley Lane and crossed the

Hogsmill".
Maurice lived nearby and occasionally popped into the Prince's as Leonard
wasn't a fan of DIY but Morrie

would do some
decorating for him. Clearly they were quite close. John's mother died in
1970.

John also became Chairman of Bookham FC for a few years in
the 80s and had connections with them until he moved

to Seaford in
2007. Email: [email-masked]

June 46
Corinthian Casuals are allowed to remain in Surrey FA despite now playing in
Chiswick, Middlesex.

19/6/46 Epsom write to Surrey FA asking to be allowed to
enter the London Senior Cup, but permission was refused.

They try
again on 26/3/47 and again on 20/11/52. Each time they are rejected for being
outside the 12 mile area,

despite having
been in the competition pre-war. They would have to wait for another 30 years
to enter it.

Surrey Senior
League to restart from this autumn.

Ekco played in
Southend

late Aug 46
P.O. Engineers became London Telecoms.

Aug 46 Lionel Hanton, Alan Redman, and J Youdale are all
at Dorking FC this season. Redman joins from Epsom Town.

Hanton would
be offered trials with Brentford and Wimbledon but chose to stay with
Dorking.

21/6/46 Surrey
Intermediate League sees Epsom Reserves elected in.

Aug 46 Former
Secretary Sid (WS) Basford retires as Secretary of the Sutton & District
League. Had been

Secretary of
this League since before 1930 say papers. Yes, he had.

Aug 46 Epsom
Athletic reform after the war. Founded 1921, would briefly become Epsom's
nursery side in future.

Aug 46 Leyland
Motors are not at Dysart Avenue this year but will continue.

Aug 46
Banstead Juniors change name to Banstead Athletic and join Surrey
Intermediate League.

Aug 46 Cliff
Banham plays for Leytonstone v Woking

Aug 46 Cobham
Avorians are leaving Fairmile Lane in 1948. The football side has now merged
with Cobham FC,

but the sports
side remains separate and have a new ground at the Burhill Estate, off
Portsmouth Road.

Cobham FC
will play cup matches at Fairmile, because a gate is required, but they will
use Cobham Rec and a

collecting box
for their league games as attendances are better.

24/8/46
Friendly trial match with Redhill 4-4 draw, but Minter and Ralph were 2nd
half passengers, and Redhill

made 3 subs at
HT. Gordon Brogdale HT and Fred Chitty the scorers. Prog issued

28/8/46 trial
match with Carshalton Ath. 5-5 draw, Fair crowd turned out, money going to SC
Benevolent Fund.

Programme
issued for this game.

Aug 46 Season
tickets advised as Ground and enclosure 21s, ground only 10s 6d.

31/8/46 Old
Epsom Town keeper HC Brown is selected for Rest of the Corinthian League v
Champions Grays

Athletic @
Grays. Grays Athletic won 4-2.

31/8/46 Reference in programme to "old friend"
Harry Payton returning to play for the club, yet they spelt his name Paton!

31/8/46
Minter unavailable due to injury in trial match. Don Ralph joins from St
Albans and makes debut scoring 4!

4/9/46
reference to old Epsom Town player H Williams (Bill?) playing for Chelmsford.
Joe Priestley is now with

Kingstonian
Reserves, along with M Forbes. Hardly any Epsom Town players appear to be at
Epsom FC this year.

Both Priestley
and Forbes saw service in India during the war and played a lot of service
football.

Sept 46 future
President Alderman G.C.A. Mann is President of the Epsom & Ewell Youth
League.

Sept 46 future
players Les Dowding, Sid Faggetter and Colin Grimshaw are all at Redhill

Sept 46 Fred
Stenning at Vickers with his brother C.Stenning

7/9/46 New
style programme issued. Number 4 for season.

7/9/46 Epsom
fortunate to win against Ekco say papers. Epsom were outclassed and Ekco
missed two pens.

7/9/46 only Watkins, Marlow and Tiffany played well say
papers. However, Ernie was injured and missed the next 4 matches.

7/9/46 First
ever match for Leatherhead FC v Walton & Hersham Res. Many players with
past or future Epsom

connections
play. Reuben Leverington, Tommy Temlett, Bryn Evans, Jackie Collins, Tommy
Rochester.

14/9/46 Ernie
Watkins, Harry Payton, Ken Minter all unavailable for LC match v Ekco. Fred
Chitty captain in

Ernie's absence. Jack Stackhouse promoted from Reserves
for this game. 32 seater Coach leaving from Epsom Station at

1.15 must be
booked at Supporters Club Hut. Membership of Supporters Club is 1s.

14/9/46 PO
Engineers have changed their name to London Telecoms.

Sept 46
Future player coach Bill Whittaker playing occasionally for Kingstonian this
year after a spell with

Brentford.
Also in Kingstonian side was future FA Secretary Ted Croker, who eventually
left for Charlton with

his brother
Peter.

21/9/46 Ken Minter returns from injury for 5-0 home FA Cup
loss to Met Police. They visit Sutton United in next round.

21/9/46
Gordon Brogdale has two goals disallowed and dominate 1st half, although Met
Police miss a penalty.

However,
Epsom lose 5-0 with all goals in the second half. Referee WE Dellow. Was this
Bill Dellow - Southern

League
Secretary in future years. Probably, as he was a regular referee in those
days.

21/9/46
Reference to an old West Street chant E-P-S-O-M which deafened West Street in
the past, and almost

compelled the
Bowling Club to seek alternative accommodation further away!

28/9/46
"Large crowd" v Tottenham. Papers say a draw would have been
fairer. Epsom were 0-3 down after 25

mins but
fought back to 3-3 before losing two goals on breakaways near the end.

10 amateurs
and 1 pro G Skinner made up the Spurs side. Brogdale was average as he was
suffering from

"a
carbuncle on the ear". W Notman made debut, and had joined from Whitby
in the Northern League. Showed

signs of
promise.

This game was
refereed by former player and future top class referee Charlie Holliday and
his brother Ken scored for

Epsom this
day!

Oct 46
Reference in Surrey Comet to the number of games played by Epsom against
Tottenham in recent years,

and
suggesting that Spurs may have more than just an academic interest, but Epsom
state that they are not a

nursery club.
Epsom's former President Arthur Turner is Managing Director at Tottenham,
hence the interest.

Oct Also
reference to "any possibility of a link up between Epsom FC and Epsom
Town - is now gone" Epsom

say that
Epsom Town made their approach much too late, by which time, their fixtures
had been arranged.

5/10/46 32
seater coach arranged for the trip to Leavesden. Leaving Epsom Station at
1.15. Fare 4s 6d.

Epsom score
first but lose at Leavesden, despite Harry Tiffany playing "a fine
game". Minter, Watkins and Gill

also played
well.

Oct 46 Bill
Parker now at Leatherhead with B Evans and Tommy Rochester.

Oct 46 Future
keeper Fred De Vries is at Kingstonian Reserves. Formerly with Dartford
before the war.

Oct 46 Fred
Stenning still at Vickers with brother C Stenning. Would shortly leave for
Leatherhead.

16/10/46 future player Jim Chennell (listed as Chenhall)
and serving on HMS Mercury plays for Royal Navy v Surrey @ Kingston.

Prog image
available at Kingstonian archive.

19/10/46
Friendly at Barclays Bank was played in Purley. They were a good AFA side at
the time.

19/10/46 Prog
issued for home game v Trojan (number 9) but number 8 was issued on 2nd Nov v
Devas!

Then another
programme 9 was issued on 9/11/46 v Bedford Town. Reserve programmes weren't
regularly issued

and I think
there was just a simple confusion of numbers.

26/10/46
"Coaches" leaving Epsom Station for Redhill, even though the 406
bus went from door to door. Att 3,000.

Tickets
needed to be booked through the supporters club on Ewell 3886. Epsom Herald
said that the National

press reported
on this game. Don't know which paper though.

Mick Colwell,
Sid Faggetter and Colin Grimshaw, all future players, play for Redhill v
Epsom.

Paper says
Epsom played splendidly especially in first half, yet still lost 5-0!

30/10/46 at
3pm Leatherhead & District Schools v Reading Schools @ West Street in Sun
Shield first round.

Nov 46
Redhill removed from AC after playing ineligible players, who hadn't been
with the club for 14 days.

2/11/46 Den
Goldsmith makes his debut. Formerly with Shrewsbury Town and Army. He is 25,
6ft and 12 1/2 stone.

Devas are a
Fulham club side in SSL. They have played at West St before but not v
Epsom.

Goldsmith had
joined from Vickers.

Oct 46
Reference in Surrey Comet to Gordon Brogdale joining Epsom at the age of 16.
Also referring to Roy

Marlow's dad
Reg, as "one of the best in Surrey" when he was with Epsom in the
20's. Roy had made 5 escapes

during the
war, and was at liberty for 9 months before Italy collapsed.

12 of the
recognised First XI squad served in the forces during the war, while 12
Committee members served in

the 1914-18
conflict.

According to
Ray Chenery, Roy Marlow went to school with him. He was very fast, but not as
good as people

thought at
football. He could hit a long ball into the middle as well as anyone, but not
much else, said Ray.

He was good
at most sports, but his war time experiences meant he was not the same after
the war. Apparently, he

wrote a book,
but died in 2003 or 2004 around xmas aged 80. Maybe called Beyond the Wire.
Yes

Oct 46 Ted
Drake now advising London University instead of Golders Green, where he was
in April.

Ken Elbrow
unavailable with appendicitis. Operated on last Tuesday 29th Oct and is fine.

2/11/46
Sweeping changes expected after a shock loss to Devas Institute in SSC. Fred
Chitty was dropped after

this game,
and was allowed to leave, but reconsiders and stays, and he is virtually ever
present for rest of season.

9/11/46 Press
say this was one of Epsom's best displays of the season v Bedford Reserves.
Won 5-3

9/11/46 Roy
Bostock (17) joins temporarily from C.Palace. Colin Grimshaw also joins from
Redhill. Previously with

Palace too.
Grimshaw was 21, nearly 12 stone, and 6ft 1, and had scored over 90 goals for
Crystal Palace

presumably
reserves, and is refusing the opportunity to turn pro and concentrating on a
business career in Epsom.

Grimshaw would
actually go on to play for Arsenal!

Bostock is a nippy winger from Palace's ground staff and
is nicknamed Ginger. Aged 17. Named Reg by Surrey Comet.

Also
reference to a new keeper Arthur Roome, but he never reaches the first team.
Previously with Bath City.

16/11/46
Harry Payton is 20 minutes late arriving for the game. As he stepped on the
field, Colin Grimshaw was

injured.
Passenger once he rejoined in 2nd half. Also, Bobby Gill was injured, and
this was all due to tough

tackling from
Woolwich Poly. Epsom played with 10 players throughout, and some of the time
with 9, yet

Woolwich
didn't score until 60 minutes. Game played at Kidbrooke Lane, Well Hall,
Eltham. Nearest station is

Well Hall
(BR). KO2.45. Ground still exists (with same stand apparently!), and is now
home to Thames Poly.

Nov 46 Johnny
Hoy joins Epsom after being recommended by Palace.

23/11/46 Jim
Chennell makes debut. Had previously played for Portsmouth during the war
(amateur), and joined

from Long
Grove Hospital where he was Captain. Also L.Richley joins club.

23/11/46
Epsom "hoodoo" over PO Engineers/London Telecoms continues. Only
one loss in 18 years to them.

23/11/46
Future players Eric D Jenner, Len Bridgman and Jim Kaley all play for PO
Eng/Lon Telecoms v Epsom

30/11/46 Roy
Marlow plays well, but is helpless as Chelmsford win 7-1. Surrey Comet says
"it must be rare that

a team are
beaten 7-1 and yet are able to claim they should have won."!! Looks like
Epsom were unlucky.

Ernie Watkins
moving up to join the forwards was a fatal mistake in the second half. Paper
says Chelmsford

were
disappointing!! McLellan got 4 for them. Chelmsford manager was Arthur Rowe,
who would go on to great

things with
Tottenham in the early 50's. He wrote in to complain about the
unsportsmanlike attitude of some of the

Epsom
spectators, who were very hard on their own players.

This is also
referred to in a future Epsom programme. (11 or 12)

Nov 46 Fred
Chitty and future player Len Bridgman are selected for the London League v
Isthmian League @

Leytonstone on
4/12/46.

Dec 46 Stan
Scott has left for Sutton.

Dec 46 Gordon
Cairns is at Carshalton Aathletic

Dec 46 former
Youth player Brewis is at Beddington.

7/12/46
Gordon Brogdale scores from 30 yards. The shot was so hard it took the keeper
into the net with it!!.

7/12/46 Ray
Allsop (17) sea cadet makes debut in "appalling conditions" caused
by torrential rain.

Allsop is
shortly to join the ground staff at Crystal Palace. Spotted playing for a sea
scouts team!

14/12/46 Eton
Manor play at Temple Mills, Leyton. Epsom unlucky to lose 5-0 and 2-0 would
have been fairer.

14/12/46 Colin
Grimshaw unavailable. Ankle injury.

14/12/46 AJ
"Joe" Jordan makes debut, but only plays one game. Was an England
International, and came from

Barnet. Also
there is reference to a well known half back joining shortly.

Dec 46 Fred
Chitty missed his chance to make his debut for London League as his tube to
Leytonstone broke

down, and he
was 5 minutes late. Would have been his first rep honour.

14/12/46 Dick
Chester playing and scoring for Leatherhead Res v Epsom Res in a 7-1
Leatherhead win, which the

papers said
was harsh. Both Goodalls were playing for Leatherhead, while Tommy (TG)
Temlett, Reuben Leverington

and Cecil (CB)
Weller were all playing for Leatherhead first XI at the time.

21/12/46 Debut
for future player and manager Ray Chenery. Lived at the bottom of West
Street, at Hards

Cottages. Now
replaced by flats. Didn't play many games for the first team, but a regular
for the reserves for

many years.
600 present at this game and two inches of snow too. Epsom were 3-1 down but
got two in two

minutes in
the second half to take a 3-3 draw. Surrey Times says Chitty scored, not
Brogdale, but I will stick

with Epsom
papers on this. It also says Jordan and Grimshaw played, not Chenery and
Chennell.

I met Ray
Chenery at Geoff Porter's house on 31st October 2005. Ray is

now 80, but
remembers quite a bit! He served on HMS Sheffield during the war, and was on
a tank landing craft on

D Day in June
1944. He was a signalman, and also played four times for the Navy. Once
played against Tommy

Lawton at
Ipswich, when the England centre forward was playing for the Army.

He was Head
Boy at Ewell Boys School "because he had too much on DWG Jones". He
said Jones would often

return back to West Street from the Spring Hotel and tap
Ray on the head and ask him to "look after the boys for him"

The Ewell Boys
often used to use the London Fire Brigade ground apparently.

Ray was the youngest of seven, 4 boys and 3 girls. Older
brothers Fred (Ewell Athletic - 1925) and Ron (Ewell Boys

- 1929) played
football too, but the other brother didn't play.

He met wife
Glenys in 1942 when she moved to the area to work at Lloyds Bank, and went to
see the football. She

also worked at
Bourne Hall as its first receptionist from 1970 - 82.

Regrettably
Ray passed away in the early hours of September 22nd 2008 - aged 83.

25/12/46
Epsom draw 2-2 at Plough Lane against Wimbledon's full Isthmian side in a
friendly. Wimbledon would

go on to play
in the Amateur Cup final v Leytonstone at the end of this season. 10.45am
kick off.

26/12/46 HT
2-0 to Epsom, and they win 6-0 v Crawley in front of a "large
crowd" which "showed appreciation".

Dec 46 reference to many injuries - Watkins, Goldsmith,
Tiffany and Taylor are listed yet three of these don't miss a game.

Jan 47 Ernie
Watkins relinquishes the captaincy as he feels it is affecting his form. It
is passed to Den Goldsmith

Ernie worked
for the electric company, while Fred Chitty worked for the gas company.

Jan 47 Epsom
are offered the opportunity to attend lectures on team tactics by C.Palace
captain Fred Dawes,

and Jimmy
Guthrie (ex international). No improvement in results. This was sponsored by
Com member Reg Olney.

4/1/47
Admission charge increase by 2d. Necessary says prog to cover incidental
expenses. No change for

reserve games,
and no increase for youngsters.

4/1/47
K.Simpson (triallist) makes debut. First game in Senior football, but didn't
play for Epsom again.

4/1/47 Ref
criticised in papers for allowing Dartford's rough tactics to go unpunished.
Lucky there were no

serious
injuries as Epsom rose above it. Epsom Herald says this match was brought
forward.

4/1/47
Programme says no fixture on 11/1 but hoping for West Ham Reserves. Ended up
going to Tilbury instead!

Jan 47 W
Peacock selected for Surrey Juniors v Kent @ Tunbridge Wells on 1/2/47

11/1/47 2,500
at Tilbury. Lost 1-0, but a Brogdale shot from distance was said to have
crossed the line. Ref was

uncertain so
played on. John Hoy debut. Died about 4 years ago according to Ray Chenery
and Bernard Smith

(2001-2002?).
He was a builder, and his wife was Ken Allan's first wife, June, apparently.

18/1/47
"Large crowd" for the Palace game which was won 9-2. Advertiser
calls match a fiasco, and says it was

no more than a
trial match for some Palace players. Roy "ginger" Bostock plays for
Palace v Epsom.

18/1/47
Gordon Brogdale celebrated becoming a father by scoring four goals. Almost
certainly Prog H(13)x.

Also H Wigham
makes debut. Papers said he was a little slow, but he got a HT so can't have
been too bad!

25/1/47 Coach
leaves Epsom Station at 1.30 for the trip to Woodford.

25/1/47 snow
covered pitch deeply rutted and frozen, but referee played it, mainly because
Epsom had made

the journey by
then. Drew 2-2.

Jan 47 Darts
match arranged for after Guildford match between Epsom Fc and Supporters.

1/2/47 Game at
RN Depot postponed.

Coach was due to leave at 12.30.

8/2/47 Early
in 2nd half Harry Tiffany makes a brave save and lost 5 teeth in the process!
He continued playing

and Epsom won
1-0 at Crittall Athletic in a bitter north east wind and with snow underfoot.

Tiffany was
at a social function in the evening and the menu included turkey. He had
"to look the other way!"

8/2/47 First
home (league?) defeat for Crittall this season. 3 hour coach journey to get
there. H Thompson debut.

Thompson was
also associated with Crystal Palace.

Feb 47
Leatherhead have challenged Epsom to a match. Was planned for February, but
wiped out in "big freeze".

Feb 47 Sid
Faggetter acting Secretary and Committee Member of the Pirbright Social Club

15/2/47 Bill
Peacock selected for Surrey Juniors v Kent Juniors @ Bromley on 22/2/47.

15/2/47
Future player Bill Wiles plays and scores HT for Guildford City against Epsom
who were 2-0 down after

6 minutes.
Epsom had started with 9 men, but not rearranged their line up to cover
absences, so they started

without a
right back! Bill Wiles is ex-QPR.

Feb 47 Surrey Comet refers to Reg Madgwick being a
"grand club man". Previously with Kingstonian and Hawker Ath,

and may be
asked to coach reserves say papers. Reg Madgwick eventually spent most of his
career and life at

Cobham, and when he died he donated all his worldly
possessions to the club. The club changed the name of the stadium

in the 2020s
to the Reg Madgwick Stadium to reflect this.

21/2/47
Reported a letter from CH Ayling, now living in Braintree and very supportive
of Epsom's win at Crittall on

8th Feb.
Refers to the old side of the 20's with Keeling, Sperring, Jack Parr,
"Buster" (Bronk) Challis etc.

No games
between 22/2 and 15/3. Three weeks. Rumour of a match v Leatherhead but
wasn't

played on
22/2/47 due to the weather. Programme also refers to the Surrey Comet being
well worth its 1d in

football
circles. Better than Advertiser maybe? Almost, but not totally convinced so
far.

Surrey Comet
is impressed and prints article in full!

Programme
finished with an appeal for the first eleven to get some more shorts, and
appealed for coupons.

Feb 47
reference to Wimbledon's South Stand being damaged by enemy bomb during the
war. It had originally

been
transferred from Clapton Orient's Millfield ground, and was repaired in
fifties (£2 to £3k) and there at the end

when Plough
Lane was demolished in 2002.

22/2
Leatherhead, 1/3 Crawley, and 8/3 Dartford all postponed due to "severe
weather". Worst winter for football

since 1888
says programme. The FA announce that the season can finish later than 17th
May if necessary.

It would prove
to be the second worst season that century after 1962/63.

March 47 A
disagreement in club policy leads to the resignation of some officials and
players. EA Taylor (Press

Sec +
Selection Committee), Reg Olney (Selection Committee), Ewan Johns (Asst
Treasurer) and Asst Sec

A.M.Thompson,
who would return eventually to become Treasurer. Players leaving were Gordon
Brogdale,

and L Richley. Programme refers to a new
Selection Committee and D Rose makes his debut on 15/3.

Surrey Comet
says that the disagreement had been existing for "the past few
months" and was brought to a

head by an
approach from Sutton for three players, who resigned, but the club would not
accept their resignations.

Chairman AE
Tuck considered resigning, but as a trustee, he decided to remain.

Club officials
decide in March to set up an investigation committee, but no official report
will be issued.

March 47 AA
Davis joins from Sutton. VP Deeks also joins, and plays for reserves. He is a
Squadron Leader, and

had previously
played for the AFA.

12/3/47
Surrey Senior League v London University @ Kingstonian. Future player Reuben
Leverington, and older

player Tommy
Rochester selected, but match was postponed anyway in the flood after the big
freeze.

March 47 Doug
Whitehead (future coach) resigns from Kingstonian selection committee.

March 47 Sid
Faggetter at Redhill. Fred Boatwright is at Sutton United.

15/3/47 6 new
players required for the Leavesden game. Also Harry Tiffany injured, so Ken
Elbrow played.

Game played
in a blizzard from end to end. 0-3 HT. First visit since 1938 says programme.
Actually May 1939.

15/3/47 Fred
Chitty unavailable as he was selected for Surrey v Berks & Bucks @
Maidenhead that day + played.

Programme
announces a son for Mr & Mrs Roy Marlow. "Another footballer for the
club we hope" Never plays.

15/3/47 Epsom
field ten locals against Leavesden. Also appealing for coupons. D.Rose debut.

Mar 47 Roy
Dymott has been assisting St Ebba's too this year.

19/3/47 Final of Kingston & District Charity Cup
between Long Grove Hospital and Teddington Rovers @ West St - 4pm.

22/3/47 RN Depot game postponed again. Kent Amateur Cup SF
commitments for RN Depot who lost 6-0 at Erith & B.

29/3/47
Woodford make their first visit to West St, and trainer and coach was
ex-player Billy Williams (early 30's).

Lots of
damage to Woodford's ground after flooding after spending
"hundreds" last year on ground improvements.

Roy Dymott returns to the side for first time in 6 months.
Job changes  helped. Is he still a
policeman? Maybe railways?

29/3/47 Bill
Peacock, diminutive left winger gets married today.

April 47
Gordon Brogdale signs amateur forms for Crystal Palace, having played there
back in 39/40, when he

played in
every reserve game and was top scorer. Still only in his late 20's.

Apr 47 L
Richley leaves for Sutton. Was one of the original three approached by them
earlier in the year.

Roy Bostock
is also at Sutton now, while the third player approached, Gordon Brogdale may
go to Carshalton Ath.

7/4/47 Epsom
lose in front of a "large holiday crowd" on Easter Monday. Crittall
mispen at 1-3 2nd half.

This penalty
was conceded by Tiffany, who rugby tackled Jones around the neck, only to
then save it!

April 47
Epsom announce that they are to move their Reserve side from the Surrey
Intermediate League to a

new London
League division (Div 2) from next season.

19/4/47 Epsom
& Ewell League Cup Final at West Street saw Banstead Juniors 4-2
Leatherhead Juniors.

26/4/47 Epsom
3-0 down after a 15 minute hat trick from F Horsley. Fred Chitty got two
back, but also a mispen.

Debut for
Alan Davis. He was good friends with Ray Chenery, who used to see him until a
year or two back (2004).

26/4/47 Dance
arranged at Drill Hall, Ewell. 7.30 start. Tickets 3s.

30/4/47 Fire
at Plough Lane Wallington. Grandstand, dressing rooms, bathrooms and canteen
totally destroyed.

As a result,
Epsom allow  London Telecoms side to
play their final league match v Woodford to be played

at West Street
on 10/5/47.

3/5/47
Programme also announces the birth of a son for Mr & Mrs Fred
Chitty.

3/5/47 Epsom
had most of the play but are 1-0 down at HT and had two penalties awarded
against them in 2nd half.

"Football
never reached a very high standard" say papers.

5/5/47
Committee meeting. One of the oldest members said he could not recall Epsom
having such a poor side.

Suggestions
about a paid coach had not been well received in the past, but seemed more
acceptable now.

7/5/47 Sutton
Hospital Cup Final ko 7pm @ West St - Epsom Methodians v Cheam Warriors.

7/5/47 London
League meeting rejects plans by some clubs to increase the number of pros
allowed in a team

from 5 to 7,
although all pro sides are allowed when pro teams play each other. Also
rejected was Epsom's

proposal to
reduce the number of pros from 5 to 3. Only 4 pro teams Guildford, Bedford,
Dartford, and Chelmsford.

8/5/47 Surrey
Intermediate League Worcester Park Res v Croydon O.B. Probably needed due to
cricket at W Pk.

10/5/47 In
front of approx 2,500 crowd says prog, (Herald says 3,000) Epsom take a 2-0
lead at Chelmsford in five

minutes,
including an overhead kick from Don Ralph after 2 mins. Although Chelmsford
equalised by HT, Epsom

held on for a draw.

10/5/47 Also that day + following London Telecoms League
game v Woodford Town, at 6.45 ko Epsom & Ewell Lge v

Surbiton &
District Lge. 3-3 draw.

One of the
Linesmen was former player and future top class referee Charlie Holliday, who
lists the result as 1-1.

17/5/47 v
Woolwich. Ken Minter injured midway through first half. Passenger. Woolwich
Poly are oldest members

of London League (nearly 50 years). First
season in Premier Division. Spectators asked to leave straight after

end of game,
so that arrangements can be made for the evening match!

Team photo
taken at this game. I have a copy. Order of players was Dymott, Minter,
Goldsmith, Elbrow,

Marlow, Watkins, Ralph, Chenery, Davis, Butcher (Ray and
Bernard Smith called him Jim, not Don), Chitty.

17/5/47
Surrey County League Charity Cup Final Dorking v Leatherhead at West St
6.30ko. 2-1 to Leatherhead.

Chairman
Albert Tuck and Mr Ayris (SCFA President) attended. Dorking scored all three
goals in the match!!

Tommy
Rochester also playing for Leatherhead in addition to others already listed
above. Attendance 3,000.

May 1947 reference this season in Leatherhead archive to a
new Reserve team Manager Mr Homer taking over from our former

player John
Coppin.

May 47 Epsom
Methodians beat Cheam Warr 2-1 in the final replay of Sutton & Cheam
Hospital Cup at West St.

29/5/47 Reg
Olney dies aged 42. Had been a member of Selection Committee until March. It
was after a long

period of
indifferent health. Lived at The Brambles, Dorking Road. Funeral on 2/6/47
attended by Chairman, and

Bert Ruddle,
EA Taylor, AM Thompson, Ewan Johns all attended.

31/5/47
Season finally finishes with a 5-0 disaster at Chatham against the Royal
Naval Depot. Carnelly got all 5.

25/6/47 London
League AGM sees a new reserve division added, and the Reserves are accepted.

Future manager
Jimmy Smith plays 22 times for Orient this season, scoring three goals.
Previously with Burnley.

Reserves:

Surrey Intermediate League (Eastern Division)

Position

11th out of 15

SIC

2q

Banstead Athletic

2-4

31/8/46
friendly v Walton & Hersham's Surrey Senior League side. C Webster
injured in 2nd half. 10 men. 0-0

Sept 46 Reference to Don Butcher shoeing fine form at
centre half. Balding but still a youngster. Both Ray Chenery and John

Prince the
Treasurer's son called him Jim Butcher but I don't know why. Nickname?

21/9/46 Epsom
win 3-2 at Carshalton Athletic Res. Keeper not clear. Adey perhaps?

28/9/46 Epsom
draw 2-2 at Warlingham. Keeper not clear. Adey perhaps?

12/10/46 Only
10 players listed in the BOOK.

19/10/46
Programme Line Up for this match: Ken Elbrow, R.Harper, Bobby Gill, GE Hill,
SG Mannin, CL Webster

FH Taylor, RA
Hinton, J.Bailey, AJ Cripps, R.Easton

19/10/46 Bailey "scores five" v Trojan Athletic
who are beaten 7-1 at West Street in a League match according to Epsom
Herald.

19/10/46
However the BOOK says he got just three and lists four other scorers. I will
go with the BOOK for now.

19/10/46 Prog
issued for home game v Trojan (number 9) but number 8 was issued on 2nd Nov v
Devas!

Then another
programme 9 was issued on 9/11/46 v Bedford Town. Reserve programmes weren't
regularly issued

and I think
there was just a simple confusion of numbers.

26/10/46
Bailey scores HT v Croydon OB in SIC

2/11/46 Don
Ralph scores HT v Guards Depot at Caterham.

9/11/46
Friendly at home to Bomber Command does not take place.

16/11/46
Programme Line Up for this match: Frank Adey, R.Harper, Jack Stackhouse,
R.Stanford,

SG Mannin
(listed as F.Mannin), CL Webster, FH Taylor, GE Hill, Don Ralph, J.Bailey,
S.Stone

16/11/46
Banstead knock Epsom out of Surrey Intermediate Cup 4-2 at West Street.

16/11/46 Adey
did indeed play in goal.

23/11/46 Lost
friendly at home to London Telecoms Reserves 3-4 . They are currently in the
Nemean League but

programme
reports the performance was a distinct improvement.

Advertiser report says Don Ralph scored yet the BOOK
doesn't even have him in the line up and says Bailey scored the

second goal
instead. As this was an London Telecoms report I will stick with the BOOK on
this.

30/11/46 Thornville (A) is p-p. Flooded. Rearranged for
18/01/47 but that fixture would then be moved back to 15/02/47.

07/12/46
Programme Line Up for this match: Frank Adey, Jack Stackhouse, CL Webster
(listed as E.Webster),

Ray Chenery, Johnny Hoy (listed as R.Hoy), Don Butcher, FH
Taylor (listed as J.Taylor), Ken Minter, J.Bailey, Ken Holliday,

R.Easton.
However, FJ Wright replaced FH Taylor.

7/12/46 Epsom
win 5-3 at Dorking. Presume at Pixham Lane? Certainly pre-Meadowbank.

Herald advises scorers as Holliday (2), Easton (2), Bailey
but BOOK says K.Holliday (2), R.Easton, J.Bailey, D.Butcher

21/12/46 Only
9 players listed in BOOK.

26/12/46 Only
ten players listed in BOOK.

28/12/46
Keeper unknown, possibly R.Easton?

4/1/47 4
newcomers in line up for the trip to Banstead Athletic. Lost 4-2. The BOOK lists 12 players.

18/1/47 Epsom
Reserves lose at Thornville 3-2. Bailey hurt 5 minutes. 10 men. Also
Thornville were short, so

drafted in two
German prisoners of war to play, who were very good.

25/1/47 Only
ten players listed in BOOK.

1/2/47 Croydon
(A) is p-p - Lots of snow! Arranged for 07/04/47.

8/2/47
Banstead (H) is p-p. Snow still around. Arranged for 30/04/47.

15/2/47 Trojan
(A) is p-p. Snow. Arranged for 05/04/47.

5/4/47 Trojan
Sports play at Purley Way.

3/5/47 Decision
made by club to apply for London League Div 2 for Reserves. Accepted at AGM
25/6/47.

25/12/46 RS
Goddard owner and founder of Chessington Zoo (Burnt Stub Zoo, originally)
dies in Cambridge.

The Zoo was
opened in 1931 and was a huge success. He was previously in charge of
billiard saloons in Kingston!

1/1/47 Surrey Comet reports a Mr A.W.Turing of Walton
Athletic Club came second in the three mile handicap at Walton.

It turns out this was Alan Turing, the famous war time
genius. Comet reported that he was due to get the Queen Elizabeth

ship from
Southampton to work on an "electric brain device". Working at NPL
Teddington.

25/1/47 Plane
crash at Croydon Airport 12 killed on a flight to South Africa including four
members of the same

family and
three nuns. 11 survivors.

19/3/47 Large
flooding of the Thames at Walton Bridge after the thaw. Unequalled for over
50 years say papers,

and thousands
are evacuated. An awful winter.