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Position 13th out of 15

FAC

1q

Kingstonian

1-10

AC

1q

Carshalton Athletic

2-6

LC

1st

RN Depot

2-3

SSC

1st

Corinthian Casuals

2-3

SCS

1st

Redhill

1-2+

President

H.H. Maharajah Gaekwar of Baroda

First year for him HH means His Highness

Chairman

A.E. Tuck (re-elected)         v-c
W.V. (Bill) Townsend

Secretary

H.W. (Harry) Hawke

12th and final season.

Address 45 Montague Avenue, Sanderstead.

Manager

Selection Committee

Treasurer

Mr L.A.Prince

Asst Mr Gurr.

Publicity Secretary

Sid Herbert

Treasurer address 22 Holman Road, Cox Lane, West
Ewell

Committee:
Elected at 7/7/47 AGM:

Bert Ruddle, Sid Bristow, Mr Simms, Mr Hutchins,
Len Anderson, Ernie Sperring,

Mr Bowe, Bobby Gill, Mr Stuart, Reg Marlow, Mr
Aldridge, Mr Shelbert, Ted Wheal, Mr McDonald.

Not re-elected

G King and E Darch

Home
Ground:

West Street, Ewell

Kick offs 3.30 to start the season.

Club Colours

Light & Dark Blue Halves or quarters, or
even hoops according to various programmes

Club Colours

Red & Black Quarters v RN Depot
(H)(LC)23/8/47 & (H)(L) 10/4/48 + v Cor Cas SSC 3/1/48.

Additional
first and second team records in THE BOOK.

There is also
an ALBUM created for this season with many match reports and programmes glued
into it.

London
Telecoms changed name back to Post Office Telecom. Edmonton Borough joined
league and Epsom's

Reserves also
joined League in a new Division 2.

Eton Manor
played at Temple Mills.

Edmonton
Borough played at Houndsfield Road London N9. New ground this season capable
of holding 15 to 20,000.

Corinthian
Casuals played this year at the Polytechnic Ground in Chiswick

7/7/47 AGM at
Clubhouse

Statement
released says that the policy of confining a search for players to the
Borough did not produce the hoped for

results. In
future the club will look further afield.

Financially the
season was a success, and all outstanding debts were liquidated. During the
previous season, Fred

Chitty played
for Surrey v Berks & Bucks, and Peacock played for Surrey v Sussex, and v
Kent.

Club actually
lost £14.18s.10d, but is still in black to the sum of £29.2s.11d

Roy Marlow was
ever present in 46/47, and Ernie Watkins played in all league games, while
captain Den Goldsmith

played in all
games after joining in November 46.

Reserves
struggled after a good start, due to first team call ups. They are also now
in London League, after leaving the

Surrey
Intermediate League. Thanks given to Epsom Football and Athletic Club, in
particular Mr Shelbert who ran

the canteens.
Thanks also to Mrs Page, Mrs Parr, Mrs Hinks, Mrs Hutchins, Mrs Taylor,

Mrs Prince, Mrs
Smith, and Mrs Gill.

Mr AE Tuck
Presided over the meeting, and was also re-elected as Chairman. Bill Townsend
also re-elected as v-c, as

was Harry
Hawke, and LA Prince (Sec and Treas). Hawke referred to feeling like "an
alien" because he lived 10 miles away

in
Sanderstead. He could not recall a tougher season in 30 years that he had
been involved with clubs administratively.

This one would
unfortunately be worse.

He also
referred to one or two delicate moments - referring to committee
resignations, but was sure that the rest were

100% supportive
of the club.

Gate Receipts
were £304, v-p donations £66, sale of "match cards" and adverts
£112, cup comps £191, and friendlies

after
charitable donations £84.

Expenditure
Ground rent £93 rates £227, refreshments and travelling expenses £263, upkeep
of ground £135

and printing
and stationery £121.

Club also
announced that the Maharajah of Baroda, who owned a house in Headley, had
accepted the clubs invitation

to be
President.

Doubt was
expressed about the existence of a supporters club, but Mr Bowe said it would
be fine. Mr Simms advised

that several
dances were being arranged including one at Epsom Baths.

Sid Bristow
resigned as Trainer at AGM to become one of the Selection Committee, but
would help out if required.

Bobby (RW)
Gill and Ernie (EG) Sperring, two ex-players have been elected to the
Management Committee of the club

However, the
team captain has now been removed from it, despite player objections.

Season tickets
cost £1.1s for ground and stand, and 10s 6d for ground only. League matches
only

July 47
Approval given by Council for a "Little Wembley" to be built at
Cherry Orchard. No connection with the club though,

and ground
would be turned into big sports centre. Plans would be dropped in four years
time.

July 47 Rumour
that Sutton may move ground to Perrett's Brickfield. President Alderman JJ
Goossens says it would be "a

lovely spot to
watch a game of football". Never happens.

Aug 47 Club
hoping for a professional trainer to replace Sid Bristow.

Training starts
5/8/47 from 7-9 pm and continues on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Trial matches
planned for 9/8/47 and 16/8/47.

Aug 47 Ground
improvements have been carried out under guidance of Mr Sims.

Aug 47 New
trainer Bert Wardle (33). Also assistant pro at RAC Golf Club at Woodcote
Park. Has the intention of

one day
playing the game professionally. Previous football pro at Portsmouth. Epsom
had eight applications for the position.

Will be helped
by Mr J Jones, as Wardle will be unavailable occasionally. Jones (43) played
professionally for Everton,

Bolton, and
Southport before retiring at Cardiff in 1938. Was a goalkeeper. These
positions are honorary.

Aug 47 Cobham
trial at Cobham Rec still.

Aug 47 Former
player Stan Scott now at London Telecoms. More players still required say
Epsom.

Aug 47 Fred De
Vries is ex-Kingstonian, but played regularly for Dartford in pre-war days.

16/8/47 Trial
match  - Blues v Reds - Blues won 5-3.
Hot day but game was a good pace. No programmes for trial matches.

Stackhouse o.g.
and Marlow made it 2-0 to Blues, but Reds equalised with two from Bailey and
Peacock. HT 2-2.

Joy scored the
third for Blues, then limped off. But Watkins and Quinn made it 5-2 before a
second goal from Bailey. FT 5-3.

Blues: De
Vries, Wright, Goldsmith, Minter, Richardson, Scott, Davis, Joy, Marlow,
Watkins, Quinn

Reds: Hanson
(Batchelor HT), Butcher, Stackhouse, Cairns, Manning, Songhurst, Coggins,
Jay, Bailey, Holliday, Peacock.

Aug 47 Herald
says future players Len Lowder, TG Temlett, Fred Boatwright, and Dennis Dodd
all likely to start for Sutton.

As it turns out
Tommy Temlett will also play for Leatherhead this year and sign professional
forms with Millwall.

23/8/47 Epsom
lose at home to RN Depot in London League Cup. One linesman is former player
and future top class

referee Charlie
Holliday, brother of current player Ken.

23/8/47 D
Quinn debut. Originally meant to be D.McGill in the programme line up but he
was replaced and never played for the first team.

28/8/47 Further trial match arranged against Croydon,
winners of the Surrey Intermediate League Eastern Division. Not clear if it
was actually played though.

30/8/47 For
second week, linesman is Charlie (CO) Holliday. After the game it appears
that Fred

De Vries had
damaged his left hand badly, after making a daring save in 1st half, and
couldn't hold the ball in 2nd half.

Never played
again for the club though. Keyes HT for Ekco in this 6-2 League defeat.

4/9/47 After
two defeats another trial is held against Croydon who won Surrey Intermediate
League last year.

6/9/47
friendly between Dulwich juniors and Banstead juniors was played at West
Street after Epsom's game. 3-1 to Dulwich

6/9/47 Debuts
for G Coppen, Jack Bolton, W Webber and G Weller.

Webber was
listed in my stats with 6 goals and Weller 2, but when calculating the
details I found it is 7 and 1. Check BOOK! BOOK

says 6 and 2
so it looks like one of the games v Brookwood or Carshalton is wrong and
should be Weller instead. Check press reports again.

Sept 47 Future
player Len Bridgman has minor knee op with PO Telecoms who have changed name
from London Telecoms.

He had hurt his
knee in Paris playing for the PO Rep side.

Sept 47 Future
trainer Fred Aldred chosen for Rest of League v Champions Walton & H @
Walton on 10/9/47

13/9/47
friendly played at West Street 6.45 k.o. between Dulwich Hamlet Juniors and
Banstead Juniors that Dulwich won 3-1.

13/9/47 Ernie
Watkins injures ankle, which is put in plaster. Returns on 8/11/47. Missed
only 7 games!

13/9/47 Fred
Chitty also injured briefly and Edmonton equalised while he was off the
field.

13/9/47 Prog
says that fixture list is available for this season. Cost 1s. Also containing
club rules.

13/9/47 future players Freddie Boatwright & Jack
MacDonald along with former player Tommy Temlett selected for Surrey at
Oxford v Oxfordshire.

Sept 47 Future
coach Bill Whitaker resigns from Kingstonian and joins Bromley.

Sept 47 Vic
Honey and Denis Ford are at Carshalton Athletic along with Les Dowding.

20/9/47 Late
Epsom winner against Brookwood in FAC after they had fought back to 3-3.

25/9/47 Ken
Holliday gets married on a Thursday. Currently injured.

27/9/47 Len
Lowder (Sutton) and Tommy Rochester (Leatherhead) rejoin club.

27/9/47 Club
announce the dissolution of the Supporters Club, so no coach went to
Kingstonian the following week.

Prog says,
trying to reform as soon as possible.

27/9/47 Len
Lowder plays again for Epsom. Joining from Sutton. Had played briefly last
year.

Sept 47 Alan
Redman and Lionel Hanton are still at Dorking

Oct 47 Nat (NC)
Kennell joins Sutton from Leytonstone

4/10/47 Stearn
scores 4 v Epsom including HT in 10 minutes at start of 2nd half. Lost 10-1.
Late Chitty consolation goal.

11/10/47
Carshalton won 6-2. L Chatterton got all 6, including 3 penalties! Papers say
Lowder prevented double figures.

11/10/47 Future
players Denis Ford and Vic Honey both played for Carshalton v Epsom

11/10/47
Banstead Reserves v Epsom Old Boys in SJC 1 at Merland Rise. Epsom Old
Boys

were in the Old
Boys League at the time. Prog Y.

Oct 47 Fred
Chitty leaves for Leatherhead. Reuben Leverington and Cecil Weller are also
there.

18/10/47 Future
player Sid Faggetter scores twice for Redhill v Carshalton Ath in FAC.

18/10/47 Epsom
lose 3-0 at Guildford, which the papers say is a fair result. Epsom had tried
an experimental front line.

25/10/47 Bill
Cutter debut. Went to school with Ray Chenery, and died in the 90's. Was a
bit of a joker, and lived in London

Road. Ray
Chenery saw him before he died. Apparently Bill got Ray a lot of goals. Would
play for Surrey too, and Don Stoker

the England,
Sutton and Kingstonian centre half, joked that he was the only one that
brought the condoms!!

Oct 47 Noted
by paper that Venner Sports are playing at Morden Park. They groundshared at
Epsom before the war.

Fred Stenning
joins Leatherhead from W&H in Nov 47

Reg Madgwick
was also at Walton back then

1/11/47
Southern Counties Junior Representative match Surrey v Kent played at Epsom
ko 3.15  - Prog
Y (11)

Tilbury's first
season at new ground. Used to play across the road at the Orient Field, which
they lost after the war.

1/11/47 Epsom
score first at Tilbury, but lose 4-1 at St Chad's Road.

1/11/47
Programme advises that they consider Epsom their "first and
greatest" of friends in the London League.

According to
Ray Chenery, he and Bill Cutter were trying to sneak out after the match
during all the post match speeches,

when Secretary
Harry Hawke told them off, and said they still had speeches to hear. Bill
Cutter said that was why they were

leaving!
Apparently, Harry Hawke died a long time ago. Was a real gentleman though.
Old school.

8/11/47 Game
at home to Tilbury so impresses the ref GD Harber, that he wrote to the
Surrey Comet to advise. Printed 26/11.

15/11/47
Friendly v Oxford University (1-4) contained many players who went on to play
for Pegasus in their two AC finals

Ken Shearwood,
Tony Pawson (also fly fishing champion in years to come), and Denis Saunders
played in the game.

Pawson got a
hat trick and it was also Shearwood's debut for Oxford University. Rochester
pulled muscle 80 mins. 10 men.

After game, a
dance is at the Drill Hall in Ewell from 8pm to midnight. Tickets 3s. Went
well and another is planned.

15/11/47
Carshalton Ath lose to Leatherhead in AC and were intending to protest over
an ex-Epsom player TG Temlett.

Temlett had
played for Leatherhead, but was also a Sutton player. Temlett went on to sign
pro for Millwall.

Gordon Brogdale
reported as having scored 51 goals in a season in the late 30's.

Nov 47 Future
players Len Bridgman & Eric D Jenner selected for Civil Service v RAF @
Chiswick on 3/12/47.

29/11/47 Bill
Cutter injured in collision with Woolwich player. Both left field for 4
stitches over his eye.

29/11/47
Woolwich mispen (POST). Game finished in dark due to a late start. Roy Marlow
pulled muscle 75 mins. 10 men.

Dec 47
B.Thursby (27) played previously for Aston Villa juniors & Cheltenham
Town. Asked for transfer to Leatherhead. Lives in Chiswick.

6/12/47 Len
Lowder plays exceptionally but Epsom still lose 0-2. Basil Solly also returns
to the side after many years away.

However, he
only plays once. Both Bowsher and Roy Marlow both injured and unavailable, so
W Johnson and W Webber

take their
place.

13/12/47
Improvement v Bedford but still lost. Debut for K Harding.

I don't have a
confirmed first name for K.Harding but a Ken Harding played for Dorking a few
years later, so it is likely to have

been the same
player. I will go with this.

16/12/47 St
Ebba's 1-1 Cheam Wednesday in Surrey Midwek Cup at West Street.

20/12/47 West
Street used for Hood Shield match between Epsom, Leatherhead & District
Schools and Caterham Schools. 10.30 am k.o.

20/12/47 Epsom
draw with Crittall Athletic, breaking sequence of 11 straight losses.
Reference to an "Adams" making an appearance this

day, but after
review, I believe that this was in fact A.Davis, who wasn't listed in this
match, despite being a regular, and Adams was in his

position. Also
Adams does not appear in the BOOK which clinches it for me. Paper error.

Dec 47
reference to Gordon Brogdale being at Folkestone for a while, and has now
joined Wimbledon and will play for their

strollers side
at Epsom v Manor Hospital on 20/12. Papers say he played for Romford and
Barnet after starting out with

Epsom back in
1935. Debut was 23/1/37 but was with Reserves earlier than this. Lives in
Thornton Heath and is an engineer.

Also played for
Crystal Palace in their London Combination Team of 1940.

27/12/47
Dorking deserved their 4-1 win at Epsom, but poor weather affected spectator
numbers. Mention of another intended

friendly later
in the season - see 1/5/48.

Jan 48 Frank
Rawkins leaves Grays for Post Office Engineers.

3/1/48 Casuals
lucky to win v Epsom after letting a 2-0 lead slip. Late winner for Casuals
on 80 minutes.

3/1/48 Epsom
were drawn away, but game switched to Epsom as Casuals' pitch at the
Polytechnic ground in Chiswick is unavailable.

10/1/48 First
win since 20/9 as Epsom win 3-0 at RN Depot. Bill Cutter HT plus a missed
penalty too! Rochester was

outstanding.

24/1/48 Late
consolation for Tommy Rochester at Edmonton in 7-1 defeat. Outplayed! Downes
scores 4 for Edmonton.

Jan 48 future
player Ron Orford is at Dulwich

31/1/48
Conditions very wet at home to Eton Manor in 2-0 defeat. One goal in each
half and Len Lowder played very well.

Herald said
that Epsom have "only themselves to blame" and too many back
passes. 0-1 down after 25 minutes and the second was near

the end of the
match.

Home programme
7/2 is apprehensive of their first team's task at Chelmsford, where Eton
Manor were beaten 14-1, Guildford

City Res 10-3
and Leavesden 10-2. However it was much worse.

7/2/48 Epsom's
record defeat at Chelmsford Reserves 14-0!!! Galley scores 7 and Foreman  gets 6. "Avalanche!"

Chelmsford
Chronicle report suggests Foreman only got 5 as Tidman and Goulden got the
others.

This was a
club record for Galley as the reserves attracted an attendance of 2,789 for
this match v Epsom, who had a player

carried off
early in the second half. Goulden got the other goal. Marlow was actually
injured in the first ten minutes and Minter also

suffered a leg
injury and was a passenger. Dennis Foreman and Len Galley.

Feb 48 Eric
Bristowe former Woking Reserves keeper is now with Byfleet - is this our one?
Note the extra "e" in the surname.

Feb 48 Bill
Wiles at Woking

7/2/48 Gordon
Brogdale selected to be centre forward for Wimbledon.

14/2/48 Epsom
bounce back well to take two points against Woodford in a poor match by two
goals to nil. Prince put us ahead just before

HT and
Rochester extended the lead after 65 minutes.

21/2/48
Leavesden away. Only 8 players could get there due to adverse weather
conditions. 3 locals drafted in to play.

They were
R.Dean, D.Goldsack, and D.Lines. This was the only London League game to take
place today.

Epsom arrived
just before 4pm and 5 players had missed the coach. When Epsom arrived, Harry
Hawke signed on the

three
volunteers 42 year old W Dean a former Leavesden right back, 16 year old G
Lines at left half, and J Goldsack (16 1/2)

who played at
outside right. The ref endorsed the signatures!! All three lived at different
numbers at Tanners Hill, Abbots Langley.

21/2/48 Light
layer of snow on pitch, but game still went ahead. Jack Stackhouse scored
second equaliser from halfway

line. It
bounced in front of keeper and then over him. Epsom also scored "a
winner" which the referee allowed at first, but

after
consultation with the linesman it was disallowed, and Letchworth scored a
last minute winner instead.

Leavesden had
gone ahead  with an early wind-assisted
shot but Peacock our "little winger" responded quickly to equalise.
A foul by Cutter

enabled them to
go ahead on the hour with a penalty before Stackhouse equalised after 62
minutes.

28/2/48 A much
better showing in the return match with Chelmsford Res, only losing 3-2. We
were 3-1 down but Rochester pulled another

back after
scoring the first from the penalty spot.

Feb 48 Lionel
Hanton joins from Dorking.

3/3/48 Surrey
County Midweek Cup SF between Redhill & Reigate Weds and Wimbledon Weds
at West St. KO 3pm.

6/3/48 Surrey
Senior League Charity Cup SF between Leatherhead & Carshalton Ath
Reserves played at Epsom. KO 3.15 - Prog Y(28)

Ex player Fred
Stenning playing for Leatherhead Res with Fred Chitty, Bryn Evans, Reuben
Leverington, and CB Weller, while

Gordon Cairns
was in the line up for Carshalton Ath who won 3-0. It was Carshalton's Surrey
Senior League Team, effectively their reserves.

6/3/48 3-0
down early but only lose 3-2 at Ekco. It was a misty day and became very
foggy in the second half and was nearly abandoned.

Watkins put
Ekco ahead with an own goal and it was 2-0 after 20 minutes and three soon
after that. A Rochaester penalty reduced the

deficit before
Cutter got another early in the second half, but we couldn't force an
equaliser.

13/3/48 Epsom
draw 3-3 at home to Leavesden and should have won. Ernie Watkins put us ahead
from Davis' pass after 9 minutes but it

was 1-1 soon
after and HT was 1-3. Hanton closed the gap again from a Davis pass early in
the second half and he scored an equaliser

after a goood
run. Epsom went all out for the win and nearly got it.

20/3/48 Lost
2-1 after extra time at Redhill. Future players Grimshaw and Faggetter were
in the line up but neither played.

24/3/48 Dance
at Municipal Hall, in East Street. Dancing partly old-time, and partly
modern! Tickets 3s.

26/3/48 No
programme issued for C Palace game.

Mar 48 Both
Goodalls (Frank and Ted) and Chitty are all playing for Leatherhead this
season.

27/3/48 Herald
refers to Len Lowder v Woodford. A classic display by the keeper.

29/3/48
Programme mentions that Woolwich Poly and Epsom are the longest serving
London League clubs.

Apr 48 Don
Ralph, S.Peddar, J.Collins, F.Goodall, SE Goodall, R.Leverington, F.Stenning,
F.Chitty, F.Graffham all at Leatherhead

3/4/48 Epsom
lose 3-1 at Crittall Athletic. WE were behind after 10 minutes with a second
goal being scored on the half hour and a third

early in the
second half. We got one back from a 35 yard free kick from Ken Minter that
was deflected in by Hanton but Critall deservedly

held on.

10/4/48 Bobby
Gill is drafted in to play at short notice v RN Depot, aged 44. Had been
playing for us since 1931/32.

Bill Cutter and
K Harding were both away for business and reserve Johnson had food poisoning!

Bobby Gill
"retained most of the agility and guile that he possessed until his
retirement 12 months ago" at age 43.

He hailed from
County Durham and played for Epsom from 31/32 to 1939. Then played
occasionally for Sutton during the war,

before spending 3 years in India with the
RAF. Returned in 1946 but injury received against Caterham in April 1947

led to
retirement and membership of the management committee. Rep Honours: London
League (captain on several occasions)

at home and in
Paris. Also Rep honours for Surrey. After the game, Gill went to work, where
he is a stoker at a gasworks!!

10/4/48 Two
different programmes are produced for this match v RN Depot, one is blue
(Prog Y) and the other is grey Prog Yalbum).

10/4/48 Epsom
defeat RN Depot 3-1 at West Street and were good value for the win despite
having a disorganised 11! Minter put us ahead

after just 5 minutes following a scramble and he got a
second just on half time with a shot from out on the wing. Minter put Gilbert
through for

the third goal
before RN Depot pulled a goal back soon after this.

14/04/48 Epsom
Schools defeat Smitham Schools at Epsom FC 3-1.

17/4/48 Good
win at Dartford Reserves. On a "greasy" day Gilbert put us ahead
after 25 minutes from a Minter pass but it was 1-1 soon

after. Gilbert
then got a second but it was 2-2 at HT and Peacock's winner was scored midway
through the second half. before Rochester

hit the post.

20/4/48
Tilbury arranged friendly v Epsom in April 1948 and donated proceeds to us.
We returned the favour after the 53 floods.

Although there
was no report, the Grays Thurrock Gazette mentions a HT on debut for Sonny
Cooledge for the home side.

Not clear who
played in goal for us. Probably J.Ferguson who joined in March from
Carshalton Athletic and played for Reserves

occasionally.  I will go with that. It was. This was Jim
Ferguson who went on to play for the successful Banstead side in the early
50s.

20/4/48 regular
annual match between Surrey Refs Assoc & London Refs Assoc. at Epsom. KO
6.45.

21/4/48 Epsom
County Secondary School win 3-1 against Smitham County Secondary in second
round of Surrey Schools Shield. HT 1-1

and Smith got
one in each half before a Danny Evans penalty won it for Epsom. Almost
certainly at West Street

before the
Guildford first team match. Bernard Wales, Mick Simmons, Bernard Smith all
played for Epsom school.

21/4/48 One
day later Epsom host Guildford in the Sportsmans Cup and win 4-0. It didn't
take place last year, presumably due to the

bad winter.

24/4/48 future
player Jack Macdonald mispen (HIGH) v Epsom for PO Engineers. Award was harsh
anyway says paper. We were

2-0 up at the
time and that's how it finished with both goals from Les Gilbert.

Both teams were
one player short as the game was due to start. Epsom rushed a reserve over,
and PO Engineers

played their
Treasurer. Rawkins, Colloff, Bridgman, and MacDonald all played for PO/London
Telecom in this game.

28/4/48 Epsom
County Secondary School 1-1+ Canterbury Road School (St Helier) in SF of
Surrey Individual Schools Shield

at West Street.
Bernard Wales, Mick Simmons, Bernard Smith all played for Epsom school.

29/4/48 Epsom
& Ewell League v North Surrey Minor League at Epsom KO 6.45. L 1-3 HT 1-1

1/5/48
Programme is issued for Worcester Park Friendly, yet THE BOOK says we played
Dorking.

This game was
meant to be v Dorking, but they had a Leatherhead Hospital Shield final,
which only cropped up

after their sf
win on the previous Wednesday, so played Worcester Park instead.

1/5/48 Evening
match saw an Epsom & Ewell League Cup final with Banstead Ath Juniors 3-2
Leatherhead Juniors @ West St.

Medals
presented by Alderman GCA Mann.

May 48 Harry
Hawke announces intention to resign at AGM to take over as London League
Secretary. Also a likely new

Chairman.

May 48 PO
Engineers/London Telecoms resigning from London League, as ground currently
unable to be repaired after

the 1946 fire
due to post war rationing.

AGM advised for
14/6/48.

Reserves:

First season in newly formed London League
Division 2

Position

7th out of 14

SIC

3rd

Banstead Athletic

2-6

LLC

1st

Woodford Town

2-4

R.Whitcher
wrongly listed as L.Whitcher in reserve lists for the BOOK.

13/9/47 Epsom
win 3-2 at UGB who played in Charlton.

04/10/47
Programme Line Up for this match: W.Batchelor (wrong, this was Colin),
P.Songhurst, Jack Stackhouse, CL Webster, Bill Cutter,

D.McGill,
P.Prince, Tommy Rochester, J.Bailey, Stan Scott, Bill Peacock

Stan Scott
never appeared and was replaced by SG Mannin.

20/9/47 Won
4-0 at Croydon OB ina  friendly but no
scorers listed in BOOK.

4/10/47 Epsom
defeat Eton Manor 'A' by the only goal at West Street.

11/10/47 De
Haviland play at Elstree says programme.

18/10/47 Prog 9
would have been issued today for home game with Brentwood. I haven't seen it.

25/10/47
Dagenham British Legion play on the old Dagenham Town ground.

25/10/47
Epsom win 4-0 this day at West Street against Dagenham BL. Hunt (2), Chenery
and Webster are listed as the scorers but

the BOOK says
Hunt (2) and Bailey and doesn't mention a fourth scorer. Check!

1/11/47 UGB (H) is p-p as the ground was required for
Surrey Juniors v Kent Juniors at West Street. - Southern Counties Junior
Championships.

8/11/47
Reserves win 2-1 against Standard Telephones and go top of the table.
Remained top until after xmas. 2nd on 24/1/48

Standard
Telephones played in Woolwich.

8/11/47 Scorers
are advised as Webber and Prince  but
the BOOK says Webber and an o.g.

15/11/47 Prince
scores HT for res at Enfield Cables as Epsom recover from trailing 2-0 to win
4-2 in Enfield.

22/11/47 Fred
Chitty in line up for Leatherhead Res v Epsom in SIC 2 as is CB Weller who
played for Epsom in 35/36.

22/11/47 Epsom
won this game with a first minute J.Bailey goal. Neither Chitty or Weller
actually played in this game.

29/11/47
Programme Line Up for this match: Colin Batchelor, ES Richardson, Jack
Stackhouse, AC Pritchard, K.Harding,

CL Webster, PD
Prince, Alan Davis, S.Smith, Ken Holliday, Bill Peacock

29/11/47 Ekco
are defeated 5-2 at West Street with Smith and Peacock scoring twice.

6/12/47 Heavy
defeat at Tattenham Way as Banstead Athletic win the Surrey Intermediate Cup
tie 6-2 at their old ground before moving

to Merland
Rise. 1-0 down after 20 minutes but Bailey equalised before Banstead extended
the lead to 5-1. Peacock scored the next

goal but
Banstead scored again. Harry Clark got four for Banstead. It must be
remembered that this was their first team.

13/12/47 J
Bailey scored HT at PO Telecoms in League match. 4-2 win.

Telecoms
actually scored after twenty minutes and were still ahead at HT but Bailey HT
(inc pen) and Quinn were our scorers. We were

2-1 up but it
was 2-2 before the penalty and Quinn's goal was in the last 10 minutes.

20/12/47 1-0
win in Byfleet v Vickers with a goal midway through the first half. Bailey
chased down a long ball and the keeper half cleared it

off him
straight to Chenery who coolly placed it in the net. Batchelor played well in
goal.

27/12/47 a
friendly at home to Dorking was cancelled as the league gave Epsom a league
trip to Rainham and we were crushed 5-0.

3/1/48 No game
for Reserves.

Jan 48 Colin
Batchelor called up by the Army and had to leave club. He had played in all
eighteen matches to this point. C Hanson is his

deputy and had
trialled in August. C.Hanson is general Secretary of Hoover Sports Club. A
Yorkshire man  living in West Ewell, he

hadn't played
since 1946. Batchelor works at Ordnance Survey office in Chessington.

It turns out
that Hanson is a former professional with Bradford City for two years aged
28. Out of fotball for a couple of years though.

First match
ball sponsorship?? Sid Hicks presented a football to the Second XI 10/1/48

10/01/48
Programme Line Up for this match: C. Hanson, ES Richardson, Jack Stackhouse,
AC Pritchard, Don Butcher,

CL Webster, PD
Prince, Ray Chenery, J.Bailey, S.Smith, Stan Scott

Quinn replaced
Scott in the line up.

10/1/48 Hanson
played well on his debut and we led Vickers 1-0 at HT but fell away to lose
4-1 at West Street. He had very long goal kicks.

17/1/48 Epsom
draw 1-1 with UGB in London League match. One linesman is former player and
future top class referee Charlie

Holliday, brother of current player Ken. Len
Lowder deputised in goal for the unavailable Hanson as the first team had no
game.

The Herald
describes this as an indifferent display. We went ahead early in the second
half when Bailey finished off Chenery's cross but

couldn't hold
on.

24/01/48
Programme Line Up for this match: A.Newman (see below), ES Richardson, Jack
Stackhouse, H.Pirie, George Jupp,

Don Butcher, PD
Prince, Ray Chenery, S.Smith, AJ Rowe, D.Quinn

J.Bailey
replaced Smith in the line up and scored our goal.

24/1/48 15
year old Ron Bailey made debut in goal v Edmonton B Res. A member of C.Palace
Juniors. "Good display"

He was listed
as "A.Newman" in the programme that day.

This Ron
Bailey turned out to be Roy Bailey, born in Epsom on 26/5/32 and eventual
Palace regular before joining Ipswich Town in 1956

after 119
appearances in seven years. He went on to star at Ipswich and won League
Championship medals in the top three divisions, one

of only five
players at the time to do this. He was the fifth child of a family of 13,
evactuated to Somerset during the war and was educated

in Weston
super Mare until the age of 15 when he returned. He was the father of Gary
Bailey the Manchester United and England keeper

in the
eighties. He moved to South Africa in 1964 and lived there until he died in
April 1993 aged 60. Fuller details and a picture exist on

www.holmesdale.net Was 5ft 11in, 9 stone and lived in
Mitcham at this time. When Ipswich won the League title in 1961/62 it was
their

first season
in the top flight and the tactics employed by their Manager Alf Ramsey led to
him being offered the England job in 1963.

Epsom went
back to the top after this 1-1 draw on 24/1/48 but lost it on 28/2/48
following defeat at Edmonton.

31/1/48 Eton
Manor (A) cancelled a couple of days before. No game for reserves.

07/02/48
Programme Line Up for this match: C.Hanson, ES Richardson, Jack Stackhouse,
AC Pritchard, Don Butcher,

CL Webster, PD
Prince, Roy Marlow, J.Bailey, Ken Holliday, JA Vincent

Marlow was
called up to the first team and was replaced by Chenery. JA Vincent was a
newcomer.

7/2/48 Epsom
play very well in a 5-2 home win over Standard Telephones. Hanson was again
very impressive. Epsom didn't start too

brightly, but
settled down and gained the upper hand with the match being won in the second
half.

14/2/48 Epsom
lose 2-0 at Ekco to two second half goals but J.Bailey mispen (SAVE) after
just ten minutes and we had two disallowed for

offside in the
first half. Their first goal was an own goal from Richardson and the second
was a long range cross that dropped in off the far

post. Then
Witcher had another disallowed for offside. The Herald said that the Reserves
"sacrificed" two points!

Ekco played in
Southend

21/2/48 De
Haviland Vampires game not played due to snowy weather. I believe a programme
was produced (26).

28/02/48
Programme Line Up for this match: C.Hanson, ES Richardson, Don Butcher, AC
Pritchard, George Jupp,

CL Webster, PD
Prince, N.Simmons (should be W), W.Roberts, S.Smith, D.Quinn

J.Bailey came
in for Prince who may have been reserve for the first team having played for
them a fortnight before.

28/2/48 A
Bailey penalty put us ahead at HT but Edmonton equalisd after 55 minutes and
scord what proved to be the winner a few

minutes later.

20/03/48
Programme Line Up for this match: C.Ferguson (J?) ES Richardson, Jack
Stackhouse, George Jupp, HH Dulake, CL Webster,

W.Simmons,
F.Ward, Les Gilbert, W.Johnson, D.Quinn

20/3/48 Charlie
Holliday linesman again in 1-2 home defeat to West Thurrock.

March 48
Ferguson joins from Carshalton Athletic. Not clear if it is J or C Ferguson
at present but the Carshalton prog says J so they

should know. I
will use J for now. Also sometimes referred to as Feruson.

27/03/48
Programme Line Up for this match: C.Ferguson (J?) ES Richardson, Jack
Stackhouse, George Jupp, HH Dulake, CL Webster,

W.Simmons,
S.Smith, F.Ward, W.Johnson, D.Quinn

Dulake and
Johnson did not play as they were called up for the first team. They were
replaced by G.Jones and W.Charman.

27/3/48 De
Havilland win 2-1 at West Street.

29/03/48
Programme Line Up for this match: J.Ferguson ES Richardson, Jack Stackhouse,
George Jupp, HH Dulake, CL Webster,

W.Simmons,
S.Smith, F.Ward, W.Johnson, D.Quinn

W.Charman
replaced Jupp in the line up and G.Jones replaced Simmons.

29/3/48
Crushed 5-1 at Carshalton Athletic who had many former or future Epsom
players Dennis Dodd, Vic Honey, Denis Ford,

Jack MacDonald,
and former Epsom Town's Les Dowding.

03/04/48
Programme Line Up for this match: J.Ferguson ES Richardson, Jack Stackhouse,
W.Johnson, George Jupp, CL Webster,

W.Simmons,
R.Chenery, W.Roberts, W.Charman, D.Quinn

3/4/48 Epsom
batter Enfield Cables 6-1 at West Street in a League match.

17/04/48
Programme Line Up for this match: F.Ferguson (J?) ES Richardson, Jack
Stackhouse, AC Pritchard, F.Ward, CL Webster,

R.Chenery,
W.Charman, W.Simmons, WM Roberts, D.Quinn

17/4/48 Charlie
Holliday is linesman again in Epsom's home League 2-1 defeat to Rainham.

24/04/48
Programme Line Up for this match: C.Ferguson (J?) ES Richardson, Jack
Stackhouse, AC Pritchard, F.Ward, CL Webster,

R.Chenery,
W.Charman, George Jupp, C.Nichol (CA Nichols), D.Quinn

Charman and
Jupp were missing and were replaced by Wright and Flight. Flight was a former
Treasurer and pre-war player.

24/4/48 Final
game of season for Reserves results in a 1-1 draw at home to the P.O.
Telecoms.

Practice
Matches

Prog?

28/08/1947

Croydon

No Issue

Trial match

24/10/47 31
killed in train crash near South Croydon station.