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Position 9th out of 14

FAC

Pr

Woking

3-4

AC

Pr

Woodford Town

1-5

LC/MS

F

Hounslow

1-2

@Eastbourne

Saffrons

SSC

1st

Dulwich Hamlet

2-4

President

Alderman G.C.A.Mann

Chairman

F.M. "Mac" Stewart

v-c

W.V.Townsend (retiring Chairman)

Secretary

Ernest Fletcher

Asst

W.Mansey

Treasurer

A.M.Thompson

Asst H.J.Wright

Player/Coach

Bill Whittaker & Fred Aldred (Trainer) and
coach by February. Had Whittaker left?

Publicity
Secretary

S.H. Herbert originally elected but resigned
and replaced by Don (DJ) Proctor.

Committee

Sid Bristow, EJ.Blair, WI.Bowe (v-p), WH
Challis, Fred Chitty, JE Greenleaf, RH Gurr

SH Herbert, Reg Marlow, George (GE) Mason,
G.Osborne, DD Rice, HG Sherman, SJ Rose, Ted Wheal

W.Challis resigned 3/9/51, SH Herbert resigned
13/8/51 and replaced by KW Mansey

Selection
Committee

Sid Bristow, Fred Chitty, FM Stewart, Wilfred
(WH) "Bronk" Challis, Reg Marlow

Home
Ground:

West Street, Ewell

K.O. 3.30 and 3.15 for FAC tie v Woking

Club Colours

Light & Dark Blue

Change Colours Red & Black

Additional
first and second team records in THE BOOK.

June 51
Supporters AGM was reported as much better than last year, with no en masse
resignations, or dissolution

suggested.
However, the outlook is still stormy. They complain that the parent club
doesn't help them but the Herald

says it should be the other way around.
"Affairs are still in a muddle"

8/6/51 Epsom
Juniors hold a dinner dance at the Organ Inn to celebrate winning the Epsom
& Ewell League and

runners up in
the Surrey Minor Cup. Dennis Lane listed as Juniors Club Secretary.

Dennis's dad
GN Lane was the League Secretary and C Peacock was the League Chairman. Fred
Chitty says that within

four years, seven players will play for the
First team. Wasn't far off with prediction. W15 of 18 matches. F113 A21

June 51 WC
Taylor critical of the Herald report of the Supp AGM. He raises good points
concedes the papers, but they

reserve
judgement until the end of the season.

AGM 18/6/51.
F.M. Stewart is elected Chairman, replacing the retiring Chairman Bill
Townsend, who remains as v-c.

Stewart says
he is fully aware of the magnitude of the problems which confront the club,
and promises a season of action.

Bill Townsend
praised the Juniors success in their short existence.

Proposal
submitted to raise membership costs from 10s 6d to 1 guinea (21s). WC Taylor
explained that it would be more

likely to get
members in if the costs were lower and proposed a lowering to 5s which was
carried. He said that last year

there were
plenty of people walking around wearing Epsom FC badges but not now.

President GCA
Mann was re-elected as President with new Secretary Ernest Fletcher, who had
previous experience in

the North. Came
from Norton, but not sure when he became an Epsom member.

W Mansey
elected Asst Secretary. Plenty of experience with the Kent FA

27 vice
presidents elected en bloc, and Mr L Anderson, E.Shelbert, and L. Prince
elected Honorary Life Members for

former club
services.

29/6/51 Epsom
are re-elected to the Corinthian League.

June 51
Supporters Club are invited by the parent club to meet for discussion on the
ground next Monday 2/7/51.

The meeting was
cordial.

June 51 Mention
made about having to seek re-election in the past two years, and hoping to
avoid a third one.

As a result,
Bill Whittaker, former Kingstonian and Brentford Amateur International is
appointed on 25/6/51 as the

clubs coach.
Gave up playing several seasons ago and had coached with Leatherhead and
Malden Town. At Malden last year.

He began his
playing career at Sutton, where he broke his leg. He then moved on to Nunhead
where he was captain

before joining
Kingstonian.

The club says
that this will have no bearing on the position of Sid Faggetter who was
player/coach. However, Sid

left shortly
afterwards for Hounslow.

July 51
Twickenham now at Beveree, but would lose lease to Hampton in a few years.

July 51 Micky
Mays appointed trainer at Carshalton Athletic, Fred Aldred leaves Carshalton
for Epsom in

August, after
meeting Ernest Fletcher while both were on holiday in Bournemouth.

Aldred replaces
Harry Marsh who was popular with the players, but was unavailable for this
season.

Fred's grandson
Matt Shelton has provided the following information:

Frederick John
Aldred DOB - 19/08/09 - living at 58 Milton Road, Kingston - DOD 07/10/92 in
Sutton.

Married: Rose
Mesnekoff on 23/07/32 with one daughter Gloria (Matt's mum) who was born on
12/05/33.

Matt advises
that Fred was a coachmaker for London Transport for most of his working life,
mainly at the Merton Garage. He lived in

Whitechapel
originally but moved shortly afterwards to Peterborough Road, Carshalton
where he lived for the rest of his life.

He not only
coached football but was a rower and taught the local kids swimming too,
doing much sport within the Community.

July 51 A
strong selection committee is formed (see above). Training starts on 17/7/51
and continues every Tuesday

and Thursday.
Trial matches arranged for 1/8/51, 4/8/51 and 8/8/51 with a challenge against
Redhill planned for 11/8

although this
was blocked by Surrey FA, and replaced by a possibles v probables match.

July 51
Reference to Alderman GCA Mann being Deputy Mayor at this time.

July 51
Enthusiastic supporters have been painting the clubhouse, dressing room and
railings. Mainly due to Joe

Rose, who was
Chairman of the three man Ground Committee. Retarring of the stand, and
painting of clubhouse and dressing

rooms had been
undertaken.

July 51 Season
Tickets are to remain at 25s and no admission increase. Paper says Epsom are
the only local club in the

big 5 leagues
not to increase.

July 51
Reported that Epsom were likely to be relegated if they finished bottom of
the Corinthian League again.

27/7/51
reported by Herald that a letter had been received from Mr W.E.Green a
founder member of the club and Secretary

from inception
(says paper) in 1923/24 until his retirement in 1931. He now lives in
retirement in Cliftonville, and had

also been
Secretary of Margate for three years while they were Arsenal's nursery club.
38 Windsor Avenue, Cliftonville.

Mr Green was
also connected with the previous Epsom club in 1910, and received a long
service award in 1924 from the

club. THE BOOK
was started in 1931, and it was started by the next Secretary Sid Basford.

In his letter
he referred to taking an interest as a born and bred Epsomian, and gives
advice as to how to repeat the

success years
from 25/26 to 32/33 and also the FA Cup appearance (he said 2nd round)
against Clapton Orient who

were third in
Division 3 at the time.

He suggests a
focus on local players, but accepts that this seems unlikely in this day and
age, although he suggests

more
encouragement should be made. He also supports the idea of a "virile
supporters club" that didn't encroach on

the parent
club, and vice versa. A good supporter is a member of both clubs in his
opinion. "Good luck to them all!"

Hopes to visit
club in October and hopes to be accepted as a member.

Publicity
Secretary Don Proctor says that heavy rain has greatly improved the surface
of the pitch. He also responds to Mr

Green's letter
to say that things are already being put in place to improve this year. He
writes quite a long letter

detailing the
credentials of the new people involved. Somewhat arrogant response in keeping
with other club releases

throughout the
50's and 60's.

Season tickets
are to remain at 25s for the season. Programme price rises to 3d because of
printing and paper costs.

In defence, the
programme advised that Epsom are one of the few clubs who have not raised
admission.

Aug 51
reference to P.O.Engineers now having two covered stands with accommodation
for 600. Old one damaged by fire.

Aug 51 Ernie
Watkins advised as club captain. Papers say he has done this before.

C Van den Steen
joins from Cobham. Scored twice v Epsom in AC last season.

6/8/51 Ground
was to be used for an Amateur Boxing match between Epsom Racing Lads Club and
Lambourne RLC

at 7.30.
However, it was washed out twice, and does not appear to have taken place.

Mention of
Surbiton Town and Malden Town having appeared in last few years as Senior
clubs, and reducing

Worcester
Park's catchment area.

Aug 51 Steve
Tillyer returns from a bout of ill health last season and will coach the
Reserves this season.

Aug 51 5 new
players: Ken Elbrow (Croydon Rovers - appear to have folded this year), Gerry
Langdown (Gloucester C)

Jim Allen
(Redhill), Johnny French (Edgware), and B.Alberis (Finchley). Also Bernard
Smith (18) from Epsom Juniors, but he

didn't stay
long, and went on to Carshalton then Kingstonian after playing at Epsom, but
would return in 1962/63 after injury.

Aug 51 Tommy
Rochester rejoins from Surbiton Town, while Sid Faggetter and Fred Boatwright
were believed to have

retired. Both
had joined from Erith & B, while Rochester had also played for
Leatherhead and Malden Town.

Faggetter
actually went to Hounslow in the end.

Aug 51
Financial position at club is a little better than last year.

25/8/51 Ken
Allan on holiday and unavailable

25/8/51
"Fairly large crowd" for Hounslow game. Geoff Hounslow,
ex-Kingstonian keeper plays for Hounslow!

Ex captain and
long serving player "Brother" George Mackesy came along to watch
the game and hopes to be

associated with
the club again soon. Currently Landlord of the Trinity Arms in Borough High
Street, SE1.

Sept 51 Slough
playing at Dolphin Stadium. Had been there since 45-46.

1/9/51 Slough
score one penalty but miss a second one wide. However, referee decides that
Elbrow moved and

ordered a
retake. This one was taken by a different player but went high instead!

3/9/51 Bronk
Challis resigns from Committee.

Sept 51 Mr
Stanley Wooton has presented the club with a mascot in the shape of two
racing plates connected with

his racehorse
Golden Sally, which had won £5k in prize money. They will appear in the
stands adorned with the club colours.

Sept 51 Denis
Ford rejoins club from Sutton, as does Maurice Baker.

Also Ron Orford
from Erith & B. Previously with Sutton and Dulwich. Listed in Reserves
last season at Epsom.

Mention of
Sutton Rugby Club being formed as an offshoot of Sutton Bicycle club in 1881.
Became Sutton & Epsom

later on.

8/9/51 Former
Secretary Billy Green pays a visit to Epsom. He comes and visits every year
says the programme, but this is

the first
reference to him doing so.

8/9/51 Epsom defeat Edgware 3-1 in the Memorial Shield
with a hat trick from Tommy Wright. Future player Glyn Hinshelwood plays

for Edgware
Town but Bill Goddard isn't in the team.

15/9/51 Future
player Bill Wiles played and scored for Woking v Epsom. Surrey Comet gives
crowd as an ambitious 1,400.

15/9/51 Gerry
Langdown injured during game but resumed after attention. John Hoy also
injured and defence had to

reorganise.

Sept 51 Ernie
Watkins named as a reserve for Surrey v Royal Navy at Kingstonian on 22/9/51.
Doesn't play. Left Epsom later in

season for
Leatherhead, but returned the following year.

Sept 51 Former
player Fred Stenning leaves Leatherhead for Cobham.

Sept 51 Devas
played at Merton Abbey.

Sept 51 Bill
Goddard joins from Edgware. He had lost his place through injury. He is
advised in Advertiser as D.Goddard and is

expected to play on 22/9/51 for the Reserves at home to
Erith & Belvedere but doesn't and debuts a week later at Chesham
Reserves.

Described in Surrey Comet the year before as
"Gentleman" Bill Goddard. Formerly played for British Railways and
Corinthian League.

22/9/51 Ken Elbrow saves Epsom from double figure defeat.
Harry Brind scores 4 for Woodford. He was the future Surrey CC groundsman.

22/9/51
Ex-player Len Bridgman now club captain at Woodford.

23/9/51 Cricket
match between Wandgas Worcester Park and Epsom FC at Grafton Road. Ground
still exists.

Epsom team
comprised of players and officials. Game arranged by Fred Chitty. Hopes it
will become an annual fixture.

Epsom scored
69 with Roy Marlow (10) and George Mason (20). Then Fred Chitty took 4 for 11
as Wandgas were out for 62.

Mac Stewart
got 3 for 25 and the slip fielders Ken Elbrow and Ray Chenery
"particularly good in the slips". Entertained

afterwards by
Fred Chitty "who is no mean comedian".

Sept 51 Mention
of P.O.Engineers having a fire at their ground in Plough Lane, Wallington in
1947. This led to the

club having to
fold temporarily in 1948. 8 players then joined Epsom, including Jack
Macdonald, who is now back with

PO Engineers.
Their manager is Frank D. Rawkins - 34 apps in 48-49 for Epsom.

Jack McDonald
is selected for the London League v Spartan League at Dartford on 03/10/51.
He previously represented them

in 1948/49 v
Royal Navy.

Sept 51
another former Epsom and PO Engineer Len Bridgman is now Captain of Woodford
Town in London League.

Sept 51 Gerry
Saffery is now at Tooting & M. N.Griffiths is now at St Albans.

Late September
it appears that the Mitcham Stadium has been vacated by Croydon Rovers, and
is being used by

Millwall A team
this season. It doesn't last for many years, although one stand went to
Leyton Orient where it remains

to this day -
Dec 2018.

Sept 51 Nat
Kennell is now at Bromley. Previously at Sutton before joining us.

Sept 51 Gordon
Disborough is now at Gravesend & Northfleet in the Southern League.

29/9/51 Ernie
Watkins scores an 80th minute winner after Epsom had lost a 2-0 lead.

Programme
refers to new clinker being laid around the ground.

Sept 51  Bernard Canham is at Malden Town

Sept 51 Roy
Dymott is at Leatherhead

Oct 51 Bill
Wiles is at Woking

Oct 51 Glyn
Hinshelwood transfers from Edgware to Tooting & Mitcham. Formerly also
with Hendon.

Oct 51 Jim
Allen picked for London Stock Exchange v Brussels and Paris Bourse @ Brussels
on 13/10/51.

They beat Paris
1-0 and draw with Brussels 1-1.

Oct 51 Ron
Lomax joins from Guildford City. Had played once or twice for their Southern
League team.

6/10/51 Goddard
debut v Chesham. "Little doubt that he will prove a big asset to the
club" says Advertiser.

According to
Ray Chenery, Goddard was a popular player, although not too quick, but didn't
need to be, as his heading was

superb. He wore
odd turned up boots, "like far east slippers".

Goddard made
his debut while Ray was reserve manager.

6/10/51 Epsom
fight back from 2-0 down, and Lomax hits a cross shot that glances the bar
and appeared to cross the

line, but
referee consulted with the linesman and did not allow it. Epsom were
dispirited and lost 4-2 as a result.

6/10/51 Papers
say "large crowd" at Chesham for this match. Both Lomax and Goddard
score on their debuts.

6/10/51 Epsom
increase admission from Oct 20. Ground entrance is now 1s instead of 9d, and
9d instead of 6d for Reserves.

Stand remains
at an extra 9d.

Oct 51 Jan
Sorensen and Stan Scott playing for Sutton.

Oct 51 Eddie
Dukelow and Gordon Brogdale line up for Worthing Res on 6/10/51

Oct 51 Tommy
Wright selected for Corinthian League v Spartan League @ Chesham 27/10/51.
Scores once in an 8-2 win.

13/10/51 Epsom
lose 2-1 to 2 own goals. A back pass from Langdown and a deflected free kick
off of Watkins.

13/10/51
Supporters Club Membership advised in programme as 2s for adults and 1s for
children under 18.

20/10/51 Musto
unfit. Unavailable. Eastbourne made 8 team changes to programme. Epsom
recover from 2-0 down to

lead 3-2 only
to let an equaliser in after 86 minutes. Referee booed off at HT for not
awarding a penalty to Epsom.

27/10/51 Epsom
are 2-0 down at Worcester Park but recover to win in Extra time.

Epsom had
offered Worcester Park a switch to West Street for a larger gate, but they
declined.

27/10/51 Tommy
Wright scores first goal for Corinthian League v Spartan League at Chesham
W8-2. His first Cor rep game.

Oct 51 Herald
refers to Gerry Langdown as "one of the coolest players in the League,
though he has not yet mastered the

technique of
passing to one of his own players". "In fact only John Hoy can be
relied upon to do this."

3/11/51
Rochester injured early 2nd half - torn thigh muscle. 10 men. Stan Scott
scores four for Sutton v Finchley.

Nov 51 Ernie
Watkins leaves the club for Leatherhead but would eventually return.

Ernie wrote to
say that "he had lost his place to a great player (Jim Allen) and a good
club man"

Jim Allen also
becomes club captain.

Nov 51 Vic
Legrand joins Worthing from Epsom Reserves too

Nov 51
J.Cashman is keeper for Tufnell Park v Woking. Is that the former Epsom
keeper?

3/11/51 Epsom
played in red and black this day, although paper says Rochester was captain
after Ernie's departure..

10/11/51
Football club dance at Church House, Epsom. Tickets are 2s 6d.

10/11/51 Jim
Allen groin injury. Unavailable.

Nov 51 Bobby
Musto set to join the army at xmas and a possible replacement is suggested as
Stan Hopkins signed

from Redhill.
Never played for the first team though.

Also mention of
Ivor Hughes coming up from the Juniors and now playing well.

10/11/51 Epsom
2-0 down again after 39 minutes but win 4-2 with four goals from Bill
Goddard.

17/11/51
Programme refers to a gift of a pair of knitted football socks from a
neighbour whose garden the ball often visits!

17/11/51 Epsom
recover from 2-0 down in 48 minutes but win 3-2. Ron Orford puts keeper and
ball in the net with

"a perfect
shoulder charge" for the first goal. 4th time in 5 games that Epsom had
recovered from being 2-0 down.

Recoveries
partly credited to new trainer Fred Aldred, but Epsom were lucky this week,
as Uxbridge hit the bar twice in the

first half.
Reference to a small band of supporters who stand opposite the main stand in
all weathers. Conditions were poor.

Nov 51 Stan
Scott selected for Surrey v Berks & Bucks on 28/11/51. Previously with
Kingstonian before joining Sutton.

Nov 51 Ron Webb
leaves Tooting & Mitcham for Bromley.

Nov 51 Epsom
supporters club offer a club tie to one of the players every time they win a
game. Captain to draw a name out.

Do any still
exist?

24/11/51
Surbiton Town game is abandoned after 5 minutes of extra time as a result of
fog/bad light. Replay required.

Surbiton were
bottom of Surrey Senior League at the time, and paper said it was Epsom's
worst display of the season.

Surbiton Town
play at Riverhill. Probably formed in 1949. Former player Pat Jordan is back
at Surbiton as captain.

Nov 51 Cecil
Weller resigns as Leatherhead Coach - Fred Stenning rejoins

Dec 51 Ernie
Watkins is at Leatherhead and is named Captain of Delphian League rep side v
Pegasus @ Dagenham on 27/12/51

1/12/51
Reference to Fred Chitty playing for Epsom Reserves this day after a while
away from the game.

8/12/51 Paper
says " the white ball was used throughout and it was the only thing that
shone in the match" Epsom were 3-1

up but Surbiton
fought back before Epsom got the winner 6 minutes from the end. 8/12/51.

Very wet
conditions at Surbiton, with the only cover being a few sheets of corrugated
iron on a shed. Papers referred to

a little band
of supporters who stood out in the wet for the whole game.

Dec 51 Informal
social evening at clubhouse.

Dec 51 Denis
Ford unavailable before xmas due to work.

15/12/51
Rochester injured in first half and had to leave field twice. Eventual
passenger.

15/12/51 Elbrow
pen save (85) from Brooks of Uxbridge. Still lost 5-2

22/12/51 Fantastic win at Eastbourne in the League Cup by
four goals to two. First away win over a Corinthian side sinnce entering the
League.

25/12/51 Epsom
throw 2-0 lead against Carshalton Ath, and drew 2-2. 11am k.o. No programme
issued.

26/12/51 Ken
Allan unavailable with a pulled leg muscle. Gordon Cairns plays for
Carshalton in both xmas games.

According to
Ray Chenery, he injured a player in this game, and it turned out that they
had a break. During the second half, a

woman who
stood behind the goal called Carshalton Annie, hit Ray with her umbrella as
he went to take a goal kick!! The referee

took no action
and thought it was funny!

29/12/51
"Mud takes the honours at West Street". Patches of green in 4
corners and ankle deep mud everywhere else.

29/12/51
Biggest crowd of season at West Street sees 5 goals in first 27 minutes.
Dulwich win 4-2.

29/12/51 Bobby
Musto (21) received a writing set from the Supporters Club to commemorate his
leaving for the forces.

However, he
doesn't actually leave for another month or two.

Dec 51 Cliff
Banham joins from Eton Manor. Previously Amateur Cup winner in 1947 with
Leytonstone (2-1 v Wimbledon).

Amateur Cup
Final programme of 1947 says: "Left-half. An ex-Guardsman, he won his
Army colours at soccer, rugger, boxing,

cricket,
swimming, running and field events. Joined Leytonstone in 1946/47. Capped
against the French Army before the war,

he has
represented the Army and Essex County during the past two seasons.

Jan 52 Don Proctor refers to a membership of 150 of the
Supporters Club and that we needed more. Carshalton have over 1,000
apparently.

The papers assert that there is "an attitude of
apathy that has unfortunately hung like a miasma over West Street for a long
long time."

"Don't be
content to watch and criticise".

Jan 52 Bernard
Canham is at Malden Town

5/1/52 Vic
Honey joins. Ex Sutton and Carshalton Ath. Cliff Banham to make debut.

Vic Honey was
a Sergeant in Malaya while ex-committee member Wilf Smith was there during
the war. A bit of a ladies man

who was also
good friends with Denis Ford.

Ray Chenery
remembers him as an elegant footballer, and very quick, neat and sharp.
However, Denis Ford "did the brainy bit

for him".

Jan 52 Tommy
Kerner joins Bromley from Tooting & Mitcham after losing his regular
place.

Jan 52 Epsom Herald referred to P.Davis a former Marine
Crosby player who had also played for Notts County first team being expected
to

join the club.
He is a forward. It turned out that he was P.Davie but he only ever played
for the Reserves in the end.

It also transpired that the Herald had been given wrong
information and that he had never played for Notts County! The Herald
apologised in print.

12/1/52 club announce the death of loyal supporter Arthur
Green, brother of former Secretary Billy Green. Must have been Albert not
Arthur.

Also reference
to two future dances at the Organ Inn planned for 2nd Feb and 22nd March.
Tickets 2s.

Between 8/12/51
and 12/1/52, Bill Goddard scored in 8 straight games (11 goals)

Jan 52 Reference in Epsom Herald to Tommy Wright losing
his place to Vic Honey on the right wing and maybe he could play on the left,
but

he doesn't and
leaves the club.

Also reference to our lowest gate of the season against
Maidenhead. Herald refers to "hidden supporters" and that we are
playing well.

19/1/52
Eastbourne overrun Epsom. Elbrow saves them from a double figure defeat.
Future player Glyn Hinshelwood

plays for
Eastbourne.

26/1/52 Epsom
record first away League win since 5/3/49 at Royal Navy Depot. First away
Corinthian League

win in their
third year in the League.

26/1/52 Ken Elbrow gets married to Janet Gould in the
morning, and captains side at Maidenhead in the afternoon in Jim Allen's
absence. Bill

Goddard was
also unavailable with a painful carbuncle so John Hoy played up front. Didn't
do much, but scored the winner (88)

26/1/52 Poor
surface - weather related.

26/1/52 On the
way home, Epsom stopped to celebrate at a pub, only to find that behind the
bar was Cliff Banham and Gerry

Langdown's old
Sargeant-Major from the war! Banham said that he had been put in the guard
room regularly by this person.

They all got on
well though. They were both in the Grenadier Guards.

Feb 52
Discussion about why Ernie Watkins left for Leatherhead earlier in the
season. Apparently, he was rested for the Grays

game in
November, where Epsom got a draw. According to Press Secretary Don Proctor,
Watkins himself commented that

Epsom had
played so well, the Committee shouldn't change the side, and he then applied
to play for Leatherhead, where

he would remain
for the season, returning next August.

Feb 52 Future
player Ron Ballard joins Carshalton Ath from Clapton.

Feb 52 Future
player Reg Walker joins from Sutton. Unable to get a regular place this
season, so Sutton let him move, but

was expected
back at Sutton's trials next season. He actually would go to Carshalton Ath
instead. Debut 9/2/52.

Reg returned
for a longer spell in future years. Eventually ran a pub in Carshalton and
died within the last year (2005). There was

a report in the
Guardian according to Bernard Smith.

9/2/52 A
minutes silence is held at Hounslow for King George VI, who died on
6/2/52.

Spectators sang
National anthem and Abide With Me

Feb 52 Mention
of future player Brian Brumwell the Essex Table tennis player entering the
Surrey Open along with

Johnny Leach,
defending champion and who recently lost his World Title in Bombay.

Feb 52 Bobby
Musto now goes into forces, so Stan Scott rejoins from Sutton. Sutton
supporters upset, and one even

wrote in to
papers to complain. Musto was to be stationed in Enniskillen for his National
Service.

Feb 52 Fulham
player Charlie Mitten, who was a friend of Denis Ford, came to give a team
talk, and brought Eddie Lowe

with him,
another Fulham player.

9/2/52 Cope HT
for Hounslow v Epsom.

Feb 52 Stan
Scott joins from Sutton United.

Feb 52 Bill
Fraser is coach at Walton during this time. Very successful..

16/2/52 Bobby
Musto captains side for one game before leaving.

16/2/52 Epsom
go 1-0 down but win 8-1 in League Cup SF v Maidenhead Utd.

23/2/52 Ill
feeling throughout match at Grays leads to Cliff Banham being sent off (85).

23/2/52 2
penalties awarded, both against Jim Allen, and both are unfortunate. Elbrow
saves one of them.

23/2/52
Reference in home Juniors programme that the tea bar by the dressing rooms is
operating.

Feb 52
reference to Cliff Banham and Johnny Hoy having the long throw in their
armoury.

Feb 52 Tommy
Wright now signed for Hounslow.

Mar 52 Future
player Jan Sorensen selected for Athenian League to play in Hong Kong in May.
Away for a month.

This may have
had a bearing on his job, as he had 2 gents outfitters, at 50 Broadway,
Stoneleigh, and 194 Kingston Road, Ewell.

1/3/52 Best
performance of the season v Erith & B. Jim Allen gives away another
penalty, but it is hit wide.

1/3/52 Epsom
playing in red and black quarters again.

1/3/52
reference in programme to the loss of another loyal supporter Mr Sycamore,
who regularly sat in the stand with his wife.

8/3/52 Future
players Jock Bryson, Trevor Hall, and Alan Parker all playing for Tooting
& Mitcham v Wimbledon in.

SSC SF @
Wimbledon Att 10,500

8/3/52 Tilbury
(A)(L) postponed.

15/3/52 John
Hoy hits post with a penalty.

Mar 52 Cliff
Banham suspended for 28 days after sending off, but appeals unsuccessfully
against the severity. May also

emigrate to NZ.

Mar 52 G
"Steve" Stephen joins from Redhill

Mar 52 future player Cliff Hinshelwood is at Eastbourne.
We had Glyn 'Chick' Hinshelwood - was this the same player as he joined us
from there.

Mar 52 Les
Ford, brother of Denis and plays for Cheam Village Wanderers. Won't be
joining Epsom, although plays at end of

season in one
game.

March 52
Reference to Jack Crump, who was a keen supporter of Epsom Town in the
immediate post war era. He was the

British Olympic
Manager at the London Olympics (1948), and Helsinki (1952). Lived in Ewell.

Mar 52
Ex-player Ted Goodall at Ashtead, and Eric Bristow and E Hill at Leatherhead
Res in April, with Ernie Watkins and

Roy Dymott at
Leatherhead.

22/3/52 Dance
at Organ Inn lost money. No one was in the hall barring the band, when the
team arrived back from Worthing.

It needed more
publicity "Wake up Epsom!" says Herald.

29/3/52 Slough
game postponed due to freak snowstorms. 6 feet high drifts on Burgh Heath
Road. Programme Issued (30).

5/4/52 Narrow
3-2 loss at Tilbury.

Apr 52
Selector George Mason says he expects Epsom to be in the top three next
season. This is exactly what would happen!

9/4/52 The
first of two matches with Leatherhead represent the Epsom Challenge Cup.

Leatherhead won
it last year apparently. Ernie Watkins playing for Leatherhead v Epsom. Epsom
win 3-0.

Roy Dymott and
Jackie Collins were also in the programme line up.

12/4/52 No programme issued for friendly v P.O. Engineers.
Won 4-1 in gentle friendly. Goddard HT and Honey scored although
Advertiser

said his shot
deflected off a defender. I will stay with the BOOK that credited it to
Honey.

Former players
Jack MacDonald and Jimmy Emblem were back at the Engineers by now.

14/4/52 Six
Coaches left Epsom Station at 10.30am for Cup Final at Eastbourne.

Quote overheard
at Cup Final "What a pity Epsom cannot get such a good following for
their other games"

14/4/52 League
Cup Final v Hounslow @ Eastbourne. Epsom led for most of the match but
Hounslow won 2-1. Ford had

taken the lead
after 29 minutes from a Rochester cross. Hounslow keeper injured just before
HT and Emmins went

between posts
for ten minutes before keeper returned. Hounslow equalised after 73 minutes
after a shot from Page

went in off the
far post. One minute later, King scored the winner with a close range header.
Reg Walker hit the bar

from a 20 yard
free kick as the game neared the end, but couldn't force extra time. Attendance 5,000.

1,000 Epsom
supporters were expected to make the journey.

Ken Elbrow had
admitted to being scared before the match, but played well anyway.

Between 16/2/52
and 12/4/52, Bill Goddard scored in 8 straight games again! (20 goals)

19/4/52 Crowd
angry with ref who allowed lots of hard challenges on Goddard. Future player
Glyn "Chick" Hinshelwood

again plays
for opponents. Ref also turned down "clear" penalty for a foul on
Goddard. Beardsley was playing for Eastbourne

and he had an
international cap.

19/4/52 Mr Elmslie a 68 year old sportsman is a Sutton fan
but was also a founder member of Wealdstone and was present at the match

between those two teams. Wealdstone's fanzine in the 90s
would be called the Elmslie Ender referencing one of the ends at the old
Lower

Mead ground. There is also an Elmslie Close in Epsom near
the hospital and I wonder if there is any connection. He did not appear to
play for

the Ewell FC
Club.

21/4/52 Epsom
have 70% of play but 2 defensive mistakes cost the points against Slough.

21/4/52 No
issue for Slough (H)(L) unless Epsom got the old Number 30's out for the
earlier postponement.

Apr 52 Denis
Ford selected as first reserve for Corinthian League v Isthmian League at
Romford on 23/4/52, but he doesn't play.

Paper calls
him "probably the smallest footballer in the Corinthian League" as
he plays for Epsom this day and is "inspired".

26/4/52 Johnny
Hoy (ex-Erith) made captain in the absence of Jim Allen for Erith game.
Refereed by future famous referee

Ken Aston.

30/4/52 Bill
Goddard scores a late equaliser in a 2-2 draw that gives Epsom the Challenge
Cup 5-2 on aggregate v Leatherhead.

Ernie Watkins
and Roy Dymott were in the Leatherhead line up in the programme.

Apr 52 Dorking
receive invite to Delphian League but decline, after originally seeming keen
on the idea.

Apr 52 Cliff
Banham to sail for New Zealand shortly.

3/5/52
Carshalton's Ron Ballard scores HT in 1st half to put Carshalton 3-1 up but
Epsom recover to win 4-3. Musto

was on leave
and played in game too. Ballard's third goal was straight from an Elbrow goal
kick which was headed

straight back
in. Les Ford played and scored, while Bill Goddard scored one but also
mispen.

3/5/52
reference to The Ancient Order of Foresters Fete at West Street on 21/6/52.
Admission 6d by programme.

Archery,
clowns, tug of war amongst other things. Hoping for a record attendance.

25/5/52 Empire
Youth Sunday service and march past at West Street. The salute was taken by
Commander JS Kerans,

who brought the Amethyst down the Yangtse
River under Communist gun fire. Service conducted by the Vicar

of Cuddington
Reverend I Jones. There was a fair attendance and picture.

May 52 Reg
Walker leaves for Carshalton Athletic but would return in future years.

May 52 reported
that Frank Lee is joining from Walton & Hersham. Was a regular in their
first team this season.

27/5/52
Supporters AGM. Urgent appeal by WC Taylor (Chairman) to keep expenses down
and help maintain the ground.

He presented a
cheque for 21 guineas to the parent club, which they were unable to do last
year, but the efforts of the

Committee and
members led to a balance of approx £55. GD Berridge elected President. First
President for 3 years.

AG Bradley
elected Secretary and AT Hall elected Treasurer.

Coaches were
run to all but 1 away game this year

23/5/52 Epsom
Old Grammarians AGM at Kings Head 7.30.

Reserves:

Corinthian League Reserve Division

Position

12th out of 14

Neale Cup

1st

Hounslow

0-3

SIC

Not entered

- Don't know why

25/8/51 Former
player Sid Faggetter plays for Hounslow Reserves v Epsom who defeat us 3-0 at
Denbigh Road.

Sept 51 Bill
Deeley (Carshalton Ath) and Douglas Ayling (local junior side) join club.

Reserve players
Dan Digby, Casham, Stainforth, and Goldsmith. Probably John Cashman not
Casham.

29/9/51 Bill
Goddard makes debut for the club at Chesham United Reserves. He doesn't
score.

06/10/51
Programme Line Up for this match: Len Lowder, G.Partington, Don Ralph,
R.King, Ray Chenery, Ken Minter,

Ron Orford,
Ivor Hughes, Stan Hopkins, Dan Digby, Ron Lomax

Bernard Smith
came in for Lomax who was scoring for the first team.

6/10/51
defeated Tilbury 2-0 at West Street.

13/10/51
Defeated Uxbridge 4-1 this day at West Street. They had won their first six
games at Epsom.

20/10/51 No
game for Reserves.

03/11/51
Programme Line Up for this match: Len Lowder, G.Langdown, J.Sapsed, R.King,
Ray Chenery, F.Ward,

Bernard Smith,
Ivor Hughes, Stan Hopkins, Dan Digby, Ron Lomax

3/11/51 Epsom
get a good 3-3 draw at Edgware. With two goals from Dan Digby and the other
from Ivor Hughes.

However, the
BOOK says Hughes got two and Digby just one. Check reports!

10/11/51 Ray
Chenery and Gerry Langdown are away with the first team but we still won 3-0
at Worthing.

17/11/51
Maidstone (A) is not played as they had a cup match.

24/11/51
Eastbourne (A) is not played.

01/12/51 Programme Line Up for this match: Len Lowder,
Cliff Banham, J.Sapsed, R.King, Gerry Langdown, J.Fairhead (listed as R),

Bernard Smith,
Ivor Hughes, Danny Coghlin, Dan Digby, Fred Chitty

This line up
was correct.

1/12/51
Eastbourne win 3-1 at West Street.

15/12/51
Programme Line Up for this match: Len Lowder, J.Sapsed, K.Allan, R.King,
Gerry Langdown, J.Fairhead,

Ron Orford,
J.Claxton, Les Gilbert, Dan Digby, R.Sandiford

Orford was
promoted to the first team, while Allan and Sandiford were absent. J.Claxton,
Bernard Smith and R.Garner came in.

15/12/51 Epsom
lose 6-2 at home to Slough Town.

22/12/51 Programme Line Up for this match: Len Lowder,
T.Bellamy, R.Garner (wrongly listed as K) , R.King, J.Claxton, J.Fairhead,

?.Brackenboro,
J.Cashman, Les Gilbert, Dan Digby, R.Sandiford

Brackenboro and
Sandiford were missing and were replaced by J.Stafford and Bernard Smith.

22/12/51 This
time Epsom crash 6-1 at home to Chesham.

26/12/51 No
programme issued for Carshalton reserve game.

12/1/52 Former
keeper John Cashman plays and scores as an outfield player v Eastbourne Res
in a 2-1 away win.

19/01/52 Programme Line Up for this match: Len Lowder,
W.Blunn (or was this Blun?), J.Sapsed, R.Garner, Ray Chenery, J.Fairhead,

J.Cashman, P.Davie (wrongly liisted as W),
Les Gilbert, Dan Digby, Tommy Wright (listed wrongly as D).

This line up
was correct.

19/1/52 Epsom
lose 7-0 at home to Hounslow.

2/2/52 and
9/2/52 gk unknown. Currently listed as Stanley but he was an outside right
according to the BOOK.

16/02/52
Programme Line Up for this match: Len Lowder, Bernard Smith, Den Goldsmith,
Ken Minter, Ray Chenery, R.Garner,

Paddy Moore,
Ivor Hughes, Les Gilbert, P.Davie, T.Wright

Sapsed replaced
Gilbert in the line up.

16/2/52 Epsom
get a good 4-4 draw at Maidstone United.

1/3/52 Only ten
players listed in BOOK.

22/3/52 No game
for the Reserves.

29/3/52 Snow
but Reserves had no game this day anyway.

Juniors: Epsom
& Ewell League

Division 1

Position: 1st
Out of 8

Manager:

Fred Chitty

Captain:

Bernard Wales

LC

W

Sutton Juniors

4-3

SMC

SF

Dulwich Hamlet Juniors

1-2

SMC First Round
bye for the Juniors

Oct 51
reported in Epsom Herald that Epsom have won all five league matches so far
with a GD of F25 A3. A 6-0 win is missing.

Coghlin has 13
goals already! That 6-0 win must have been either before 06/10/51 or on
03/11/51. Bernard Wales is Captain.

inc 08/12/51
Epsom Juniors reported to be unbeaten in 7 league matches. GD F35 A 8. Looks
like a 7-2 win is missing.

15/12/51 Epsom
Juniors defeat Crystal Palace Juniors 5-1 in 2nd Round of Surrey Minor Cup

Reported after
this game that 5 players have already represented the league, and 1 for
Surrey.

22/12/51
Scheduled to play Sutton United Juniors but match moved back for a Sutton
League Cup tie.

19/1/52 Epsom
Juniors are down to ten men after 5 minutes through injury, but still beat
Molesey Y.C. 5-2

Jan 52
Reference in Epsom Herald to the Juniors record under Fred Chitty. This year
they have played 16, W 15, D 1 F87 A14

Many juniors
results missing for this season unfortunately, so I cannot check if this is
correct. League record P8 W7 D1 F37 A7.

All players are
local lads.

9/2/52 Epsom
Juniors beat Park Albion 3-1 at West Street in 3rd Round of Surrey Minor Cup

at West St

23/2/52 Epsom
Juniors lose 4-1 to Crystal Palace Juniors in 4th round of Surrey Minor
Challenge Cup at West Street.

This appears a
different comp to Surrey Minor Cup, as Epsom had already defeated Palace
Juniors in it.

We don't appear
in the first three rounds. Were we exempt, or was it the first round instead
(more likely)?

Future first
teamers playing in this game are Johnny Hitchcock, Bernard Wales, Danny
Coghlin, Mick Simmonds, Ray Ellis.

Potter mispen
in this game.

This was the
Juniors first defeat for nearly two years says Herald, but they obviously
forgot the Surrey Minor Cup Final last year!

Dinner held at
Green Man afterwards.

The Surrey
Minor Challenge Cup was an invitation event for those who had done well last
year.

Mar 52 reported
by Herald that Danny Coghlin has scored 120 goals since the start of last
season.

8/3/52 Epsom
Juniors beat Sutton Juniors 6-1 in League.

22/3/52 Epsom
Juniors play Dulwich Juniors in Surrey Minor Cup SF at West Street K.O. 3.30.

Line Up listed
as Ray Ellis, Dave Forbes, Billy Wales, Les Boatfield, Frank Potter, Bernard
Wales, Jerry Falloon, Roy Taylor,

Danny Coghlin,
Mick Simmonds, Johnny Hitchcock.

Wales and
Forbes were outstanding. Simmonds scored first but Dulwich won with a hotly
disputed penalty. DH keeper played

very well
"a good display". According to Bernard Smith, David Forbes stopped
playing football soon after leaving the juniors, and

now plays bowls
and golf in 2006. Bernard Wales died a couple of years back (2003-04?).

David Forbes
now lives in Temple Road, six or so houses down from the Church.

March 52
Selected for E & E League to play Barnes & District League at West
Street: Johnny Weaving (West Ewell), Bernard

Wales, Mick
Simmonds, Danny Coghlin, Johnny Hitchcock. Game on 14/4/52

On 19/4/52 E
& E League v Croydon Minor Combination at Croydon Gas Sports Ground at
Plough Lane, Beddington. Dave

Forbes, Frank
Potter, Mick Simmonds and Johnny Hitchcock all selected. League Sec GN Lane
16 Seymour Avenue, Ewell.

March 52 League
Cup SF sees Epsom v Rosehill while Sutton play Court Athletic (Div2)

5/4/52
Generally on top, and won 1-0 v Rosehill, while Sutton beat Court Ath 10-0.

26/4/52 Epsom
Juniors v Sutton Juniors in E & E League Cup Final. 6.15 k.o. at West
Street. Was 2-2 with

5 minutes left,
then FOWLER was injured and left the field, and Simmonds got the winner.

Falloon had got
the first after 37 minutes HT 1-0. Cup and Medals presented by Sutton
Chairman WA Hayden.

Line Up: Ray
Ellis, Dave Forbes, W.Wales, Les Boatfield, Frank Potter, Bernard Wales, G
Falloon, Taylor, Danny Coghlin,

Mick Simmonds,
Johnny Hitchcock. Sutton equalised after 60 mins, Simmonds (62, 2-1E) Sutton
(64 - 2-2)

May 52
Reference in Herald in 1950/51 to L1 D2 W the rest GD F113 -A21. This year,
played 27, with only 2 lost, neither in league

GD F142-A35.
Coghlin got 48 this year.  This was
revealed at a social at Wandgas in early May, where Fred Chitty was

presented with
a wrist watch, and his wife got a large bouquet of flowers. However, unlikely
to continue next year due to

National
Service calls. It disbanded.

Sept 51 Nescot
is to be built on a 7 acre site at Priest Hill Farm. Originally meant to
start in autumn 1949, but post war

shortages held
it up.

C O M M E N T S
/  H I G H L I G H T S

CL

Position 3rd out of 14

FAC

Pr

Dulwich Hamlet

2-4

AC

1st

Dagenham

3-4

LC

2nd

Uxbridge

1-2

SSC

2nd

Dulwich Hamlet

3-4

SSS

SF

Woking

1-3

Home
Ground:

West Street, Ewell

President

Alderman G.C.A.Mann

Chairman

Grant (HG) Sherman

replacing FM Stewart

Secretary

Ernest Fletcher

Manager

Selection Committee

Treasurer

AM Thompson

Player/Coach

Pat Lynch

Committee
elected on 23/6/52: Sid Bristow, JE Greenleaf, RH Gurr, G Osborne, Ted (CE)
Wheal, DD Rice, SJ Rose,

EJ Blair,
George (GE) Mason, G Deighton, KW Mansey, AE Taylor, VV Tatlock, Bill (WV)
Townsend

Kick off
usually 3.30 but sometimes earlier for a big FA Cup tie v Dulwich (3.15) or
in winter (2.30)

Club Colours

Red
& Black v Slough 23/8/52 and Erith & B on 11/10/52+ 25/4/53 but
usually Light & Dark Blue

Supporters
Club Secretary

A.G.Bradley

Supporters
Club Chairman

W.C.Taylor

Harold Wright
looking after club canteen with his wife, but by Feb is advised as Secretary
and Treasurer of Supp club.

Woodcote Side
Laundry - Official launderers of Epsom FC.

Additional
First and second team records in THE BOOK

27/5/52
Supporters Club AGM. New Hon Sec AG Bradley the year before had helped
improve matters and the finances

were now
healthy. Venue unknown.

There were
only 158 members of the Supporters Club, and only 20 of them were at this
meeting. Cheque presented to

Chairman FM
Stewart for 21 guineas, in addition to £10 donated earlier in the season.
Relations between the parent

club and
Supporters Club were much better now. In mid 1951, Don Proctor had been
appointed as a liaison, but quit

mid season
declaring the task "useless". Not enough co-operation. Chairman WC
Taylor was happy with the support

from Ernest
Fletcher in his first year. Also a President of the Supporters Club was
appointed, as GE Berridge took the

post, the first to hold it for three years.
Chairman Taylor, Secretary Bradley and Treasurer AT Hall were
re-elected.

Club balance
of £33.

May 52 Future
Secretary John Mitchell is Sec of West Ewell Athletic.

May 52 Reg
Walker leaving for Carshalton Athletic says Herald.

June 52 Pat
Lynch (31) joins Epsom after 7 years as captain of Hendon. Rep honours:
Athenian League

He had in
fact started playing in 1937 for Tufnell Park at the age of 16 in Isthmian
League! He had a Schoolboy

International
trial, captained London and Middlesex Schools and played in two Red Cross
finals at Wembley, and was

also captain
of Tufnell Park in the Herts and Middx League before joining Golders Green FC
in 1945, before they

changed their
name to Hendon. League scouts came to watch, but were looking for younger
players, and he appeared

older as he was losing his hair at this
time, despite being only 22!. He is 31 now.

240
appearances and eleven goals for Hendon (Golders Green)

AGM 23/6/52
Monday evening. Pat Lynch declares "I will be playing for Epsom next
season. I resigned from Hendon

last week and
told them I was coming to Epsom"

GCA Mann was
re-elected as President. Further arguments about the membership fees
increase. Supporters Club

are against
the idea, but Mr Grant Sherman scoffed at the idea that supporters couldn't
afford the two guineas required.

He explained
that it was also including entry to ground and stand, and that people managed
to visit the cinema two or

three times a
week. For Chairman, FM Stewart lost the vote to Grant (HG) Sherman. Stewart's
re-election was

opposed by Mr
Mansey, who proposed Mr Sherman instead.

AM Thompson
(Treasurer) said that in 50/51 the club lost £57 3s 2d and in 51/52 lost £43
15s 1d, but back in 1938

when
"the average weekly gate was 2,500" the club lost £590 7s 6d.
Largely due to ground loans at West Street.

Ernest
Fletcher and AM Thompson were re-elected with Mr W Mansey (Asst Sec) and HG
Wright (Asst Treasurer),

while Mr
Mansey was also Publicity Officer. Committee elected above:

July 52
papers ask whether Pat Lynch can do a "Tommy Lawton" (left Chelsea
for little Notts County and got them

promoted).
Pat "has had some very good instructors including Ted Drake and Laurie
Scott, plus many years of

first class
football" . "I am very optimistic about the future at Epsom.

Jim Allen,
previous club captain assured him of their full support and consideration.

Other new
players are Frank Lee from Walton & H and Jim Crane (27) from Hawker
Athletic. Not related to Bob Crane.

Lee had
scored twice for Walton in the Amateur Cup QF v Crook last season, while
Crane Rep honours: Surrey.

According to
Ray Chenery and Geoff Porter, Crane lived in Kingston Road, and was quiet,
but solid and a good worker.

Ray Chenery
also remembers Pat Lynch as the player who brought down Arsenal's new playing
formation, where they

had used it
at Hendon. Geoff Porter says he was a good coach, and is more complimentary
about him than of Doug

Whitehead, his
successor. Pat would have them running in the streets for ages!

Plans
announced by Supporters Club secretary for a stepped terrace on East side of
West Street

Also more
shelter requested. Was this the cover at the South (New Clubhouse) end?

Rebuilding of
the shelter alongside the dressing rooms required.

22/7/52
Training starts at 7pm.

July 52 Epsom
are granted permission to use the Borough crest on their shirts.

July 52 Nescot
being built.

July 52 Walton
& Hersham are very sorry to see Frank Lee leave for Epsom.

Private
trial  9/8/52. Public trial 16/8/52. No
admission for public trial "in accordance with current custom"

Aug 52 Tommy
Rochester appointed captain of the Reserves. He is 42.

Aug 52
Reference to Dorking's new ground at Meadowbank, but it isn't ready for
another year. Still at Pixham Lane.

Aug 52 Lionel
Hanton playing for Dorking, while Eric Bristow is at Leatherhead res.

Aug 52
Supporters Club talk about erecting a façade at the front of the ground. FM
Stewart is made vice-president

of the
Supporters Club.

16/8/52 At
trial, it emerged that ex-Sutton player Reg Walker would be at Epsom instead
of Carshalton, as he

had
originally announced. Ken Elbrow also remains with club, despite interest
from an unnamed Isthmian club.

Ernie Watkins
also played at trial after spending part of last season with Leatherhead.

At the public
trial Les Ford and Peter Hayward both played for the possibles v the
probables. Both came from

Cheam Village
Warriors. Gordon Sanders was another new player who did well. He came from
Elmwood OB.

David Forbes
also played for the possibles, and will play for reserves until he leaves for
National Service.

Aug 52 Mention
of Epsom High Street being widened further at clock tower end, with post
office being moved

back, but it
would never happen.

23/8/52
"One of the best attendances since before the war" say papers. Pat
Lynch and Frank Lee both

received
telegrams from their previous clubs, wishing them a successful season.

30/8/52 Ken
Elbrow played really well, but Honey and Ford both picked up injuries that
reduced their mobility.

Hoy hit the
post with a penalty, but the ref said that the keeper moved, so he scored
from the retake.

31/8/52 Epsom
FC defeat Ewell Court Cricket Club in a friendly by 45 runs. Ernie Watkins
got 54 in 45 minutes.

Epsom FC 167-9
dec - Ewell Court C.C. 132 All Out.

Sept 52 AM
Dawe of Hazon Way writes, asking for Pat Lynch to be given a free hand in
selection, as there were too

many changes
last season. "Pat knows best"

Sept 52
Official confirmation that the juniors have discontinued due to National
Service.

6/9/52 Denis
Ford is fit for the match despite an eye injury that is keeping him from work
as a van driver! He got

the black eye
at Tilbury the week before.

September 52
reference to a reorganised Epsom Football & Athletic Club, which is
responsible for the catering and

social
amenities at West Street. Has done well, largely due to Harold Wright and
George Mason. The clubhouse is

now a
comfortable place where members may take their refreshment.

6/9/52 Reg
Walker injured ankle. Unavailable, so Jim Crane deputises.

Future player
Chick Hinshelwood playing for Eastbourne.

Following
6/9/52 game v Eastbourne, Epsom went top of the table on goal average from
Hounslow.

Sept 52, Jan
Sorensen signs amateur forms for Fulham.

13/9/52 Epsom
are superior to Dulwich but had to settle for a draw. Dulwich helped by 250
supporters in crowd

out of crowd
of 3,000. Hamlet keeper George May had "an excellent game".

17/9/52
Dulwich programme refers to Charles Pettitt being around at the Epsom game
three days before

Dulwich FA Cup
replay kicked off at 5.15 on the Tuesday evening.

20/9/52 Future
keeper Charlie Mutimer played in goal for Devas, and played well.

27/9/52 Ernie
Watkins suffers an ankle injury and is unavailable for game.

Future player
Chick Hinshelwood playing for Eastbourne.

Oct 52 Ken
Elbrow and Reg Walker sign amateur forms for Chelsea and will play when not
required by Epsom.

4/10/52 Epsom
led Dagenham 3-1 but lost 4-3 at Dagenham Arena. Also denied blatant penalty
in last

minutes. Many
supporters who made the journey, saw Dagenham then get the winner in the last
seconds.

The Dagenham
Arena in Old Dagenham Park still exists, although in poor condition with no
structures left. (May05)

Oct 52 L
Handscomb writes in to say that Epsom would still be in the Amateur Cup if
Jim Allen had played. He feels

that it is
Ernie Watkins who is at fault.

Oct 52 A
rumour does the rounds that Pat Lynch will get sole choice on selection, but
this is crushed the week

after by Bill
Carpenter, who advises no plans to disband the Selection Committee.

11/10/52 Harry
Saunders joins from Kingstonian in Oct, and makes debut for first team.

Papers
suggested that he should replace Goddard, even though he had scored 12 goals
in his first 8 matches!

Elbrow
dislocates a finger, and has to leave the field for five minutes. John Hoy
takes over while finger is put

back in.
Epsom lost game but still remained top. Epsom supporters had rolled up in
their hundreds says prog.

11/10/52
Supporters Club announce that membership is up to 450. They always had a
target of 1,000, but it never

happened.

Oct 52 Mention
of Ken Elbrow losing his touch, but this is put down to his long hours as a
policeman.

Oct 52 Herald
says that Ernie should be replaced at left half by Jim Crane, who is the
better player. He even comes

and supports
when he wasn't playing.

Oct 52 Bill
Carpenter (Press Secretary) advises that the recent move to put Ernie at
Centre half is not an experiment,

as he has
played there for over 100 games. This would become his regular position, even
though he preferred left-half

as it gave him
more freedom to play in his opinion.

Epsom remained
top until a 2-2 draw with Grays on 18/10/52.

Grays scored
in first 90 seconds of match, and right at the end.

21/10/52
Supporters Club Whist Drive at Foresters Hall - Tuesday evening. Tickets
2s.6d.

25/10/52 Pat
Lynch has pulled muscle and is unavailable.

25/10/52 Stan
Scott presented with his Surrey County Badge by President GCA Mann. He earned
it whilst with

Kingstonian.

25/10/52 Jim
Allen resigns from club after being dropped after the Erith loss. He thought
he had played

well enough in
containing International Charlie Fuller throughout the game. Left to play for
Enfield.

Oct 52 Tommy
Rochester mentioned as a second team coach.

25/10/52
Guildford were the Surrey Senior League side, with no connection to Guildford
City.

Their keeper
kept the score below double figures. Gordon Sanders debut. "Should
develop well" say papers.

25/10/52 5
goals for Bill Goddard brings his run up to 19 from 11 games, yet he still
gets criticism from the crowd.

Oct 52 Tommy
Wright plays and scores on debut for Walton & Hersham, but within two
weeks, he was at Hounslow.

Nov 52
Supporters Club membership is up to 600 now.

Nov 52 Ron
Digweed (28) joins from Wimbledon. He is brother in law of Bill Goddard and
was captain of the

Reserve side
at Wimbledon, but had played many games for the first team too.

Nov 52 Herald
reports that Ernie Watkins is "the new idol of the West Street
fans"

Nov 52 Brian
Brumwell (25) joins from Clapton after having a dispute with them about
training. His appearance

proved timely
as John Hoy suddenly announced his retirement from the game. However he
played for a few

more seasons,
mainly for Leatherhead. Programme had said that John Hoy's performance
against Guildford was

"100%
John Hoy, never lacking in guts or determination". It turned out to have
been his last game for the club.

Surrey Charity
Shield is the forerunner of the Surrey Senior Shield. The 8 foremost clubs
are invited to enter.

1/11/52
Papers say that Bill Farrington had helped Epsom out several times in the
past, but I make this his debut.

Nov 52
Corinthian, Athenian, and Isthmian results announced weekly on Radio
Luxembourg at 7pm on Saturdays!

8/11/52
Former Champions Hounslow are defeated 4-1 largely due to another Goddard hat
trick. Tommy Wright plays

against Epsom.
Five full coaches taken to Hounslow for the return match on 15/11/52. Brian
Brumwell debut.

I met Brian Brumwell and his wife Sheila on 31/01/15.
Brian is frail and is 87 but remains President of the Ilford & District
Table Tennis

League, which was and remains his primary sport, despite
being a good footballer and cricketer too. They believe they were living

in Gants Hill in 1952 which was also the year they were
married. Brian had difficulties training twice a week with Clapton and
someone

at Epsom heard about this and phoned them up, inviting
them to come over and have a meal. They were very impressed and decided

to join up. The link probably came from Pat Lynch and they
used to meet up with him on the way to and from games as they came

down by train from Waterloo. Often they stayed late after
the game on a Saturday and by the time they got back it was very late.

Sheila remembered Pat and also Bill Goddard quite well.
Brian would remain at Epsom for around three seasons before returning to

his local area to play Old Boys football (East Ham Grammar
School) and cricket for Wanstead. They moved to Loughton where they

currently
reside. Brian played in the 1954 Surrey Senior Cup Final for us.

15/11/52
Hounslow's greatest defeat in five years in the Corinthian League. Future
player and manager Derek Evans

played for
Hounslow. Only 2nd time in 5 years that Hounslow had a team do the double
over them.

Epsom were a
goal up after 40 seconds, 3-0 after 14 minutes, and 5-0 after 32 minutes.

Following
15/11/52 games both First team and reserves sat on top of their tables. For
under 2 weeks

Advertiser
says that NEVER BEFORE, even in SSL days in the 20's, had Epsom had both
teams at the top

of the League
at the same time.

Reserves would
stay top of the table until 20/12/52.

Possible World
Record by Bill Goddard who scored 5 hat tricks in successive games - 25/10 to
22/11

Goddard's
fifth hat trick, and seventh of the season in just three months took his
tally to 32 in 15 games!

but see Reg
Marlow in 1927, who definitely did it too. Herald says that it constitutes

a record in senior professional and senior
amateur football, but it wasn't even a club record!.

His fifth
straight hat trick came in 58, 59, and 80 minutes, and after watching team
mate Scott score HT in 1st half!

22/11/52
Programme refers to gale damage to the roof of the covered accommodation
adjoining the dressing room.

It had been
blown down. Also refers to the club's "atomic diminutives", Stan
Scott and Denis Ford!

Cover will
cost £100 to put back, so the club appeal to the FA to be allowed to run a
collection. It is granted, and

raises £11 10s
at the game plus another £10, making £21 in total.

22/11/52
Future player Bernard Canham playing for Malden Town.

29/11/52 Two
weeks after hammering Hounslow twice, Hounslow win 7-4 at Wimbledon in London
Senior Cup.

29/11/52 Best
game of the season for Ken Elbrow.

Nov 52 Future
player, Tooting & Mitcham's Jock Bryson now awaiting cartilage operation.

Dec 52 Big
appeal for the club's cover. 1000 notices being sent out.

Dec 52 Andrew
Layzell and Jock Mackie both join from Tooting & Mitcham after a trial.

Dec 52
reference to Denis Ford being nicknamed "Dooberry".

Dec 52 Paddy
Moore is 17, and Ron Ruffell is 20, and is a junior member.

6/12/52 &
27/12/52 both games postponed by fog. The 6/12 one was the great fog of
London that killed 4,000 people.

Game on
6/12/52 was due to be v Grays (H)(L)

Banstead
Athletic not affected by the fog, and played their match as usual.

13/12/52 Reg
Walker unavailable, as he was getting married. Pat Lynch reported as having
flu, but still played.

Epsom were
apparently the better side, and missed chances in "wretched weather
conditions".

20/12/52 Ken
Elbrow pen save at Chesham. Follow up hits the bar. Frank Lee injured and
unavailable for a while.

Programme
advises that the Supporters Club are arranging the visit of "The Swanee
Minstrels" on Jan 15 at

Foresters
Hall. Tickets 1s.6d adults, and 9d for children under 14. Eventually moved to
22/1/53.

27/12/52 Match
v Carshalton postponed due to fog. A large attendance had come along just in
case!

Epsom produced
an xmas card for 1952/53 in 3/1/53 programme. I have a copy.

It contains
two team pictures, one of the firsts and one of the reserves. The first team
picture was taken at West Street

on either 8th
or 22nd November 1952.

3/1/53 Epsom
beat Camberley 9-1 in SSC but don't score until 25th minute. Goddard scores
HT in 5 minutes, and

four in nine
minutes. Camberley's goal was an 85th minute consolation.

Jan 53 Ivor
Hughes and Bob Crane selected for Cor League Res Section v Isthmian League at
Edgware on 10/1/53.

10/1/53 Epsom
dominated but missed many chances and lost. Mainly Goddard at fault, but he
was suffering with

flu, and almost missed the game in the first
place. The game turned on a penalty against Elbrow, who fouled

a Tilbury
player who was harassing him. The crowd were not happy with the decision.

In later
programmes there is reference to the club being fined £5 5s for a spectator
assault on the referee after the game.

10/1/53 Prog
announces that Tommy Rochester is in hospital with pneumonia but recovering.

Jan 53 Bernard
Canham joins from Malden Town. Makes debut on 17.1.53

Bernard was
nicknamed Butch, according to the papers, and Ray Chenery and Geoff Porter
advised that he dropped

dead on the
golf course (58)! Apparently, one day, he was going to be booked by the
referee who asked for his name,

and he said
it's Canham, but you can call me Butch". Definitely a bit of a
character, and his brother Tony Canham also

played for the
reserves.

17/1/53
Goddard and Ford are to be dropped but Saunders has food poisoning, so
Goddard still plays and scores!

17/1/53 Stan
Scott torn ligament 27 minutes. 10 men. However, Grays did not take the lead
until the 87th minute.

17/1/53 prog
advises bad sportsmanship by supporters after the last game v Tilbury and
gives a warning.

It emerges a
few weeks later that Epsom were fined £5.5s as a supporter had assaulted the
referee in this match,

and is not
welcome at the ground any more.

24/1/53 Reg
Walker injured early second half. Passenger.

24/1/53 Papers
say "Lynch played his best game since joining the club"

31/1/53 Epsom
3-2 up with 10 minutes left, but crash out to Dulwich 4-3.

1/2/52 Mrs
Mann, wife of President GCA Mann died.

7/2/53 Paddy
Moore unable to play as he is called up for National Service. Returns in a
couple of years.

7/2/53 Ivor
Hughes absent again after selection for third selection for Surrey Juniors
this season.

7/2/53 Young
winger Ron Ruffell (20) gets his debut. Goddard dropped again and misses
three games for 1st team.

Feb 53
Mention of Ron Ruffell's father and uncle both playing for West Ham. Uncle
Jim was one of West Ham's best

and he played
in the White Horse FA Cup Final of 1923 for West Ham. Ron has now finished
Nat. Service.

According to
Geoff Porter, Ron now lives in Ayrshire. Bill Ruffell the Epsom 30s & 40s
player was Ron's dad.

I met with
Ron and Geoff Porter on Saturday 16th April 2011. Ron is 78 and suffering
slightly with dementia, although

he was able
to recall quite a bit when I met them. Also there was Ron's first wife Liz
who is a daughter of Reg Sperring.

Ron's father
Bill played occasionally before the war and then for a while during the war.
His uncle Jim was the West

Ham
appearance record holder with 508 (wikipedia says 548) (born 8/8/1900 died
6/9/89) until his mark was passed by

Bobby Moore in the early seventies. Bill Ruffell died in
1987 but wikipedia says 29/4/1905 to March 1988). Ron still lives in

Scotland but
comes down every now and then to see his daughter Nicola who lives with Liz
around the corner from me in

Hazel Way,
Fetcham!

Ron was
discouraged by his father from joining West Ham as it gave him no career
prospects after football. Bill had

worked at the
Manor Hospital for many years after leaving West Ham but had an accident
while playing football that

Ron said was
deliberate. He broke his back and was unable to play again.

Jim damaged
his achilles in 1936 which ended his career and never fully repaired. Jim
also played for England. Ron

wasn't sure if
he had any descendants. Ron's date of birth is 29/09/32. Jim was born in
1900.

His first
International appearance was in April 1926 and after he retired he ran a pub
in Stanford-le-hope, Essex.

7/2/53 Three
goals in last 8 minutes to beat Maidstone. Maidstone fans were very
vociferous, and it is reported that

the stand
vibrated when they scored!

14/02/53
Ernie Watkins was selected for the Corinthian League v Royal Navy at Grays
but could not play because

work
commitments prevented him travelling that far. He played for Epsom instead.

14/2/53
Printed leaflet included with programme. (Y) asking for more help and
donations, and advising

membership of
the Epsom Football and Athletic Club at 1 shilling per season, and 1 shilling
per week for the Tote

club. Appeal
was from Harold J Wright 13 Elmwood Drive, Ewell

Feb 53 Former
player Len Bridgman returns to P.O.Engineers. Not sure where he had been
since leaving Epsom.

Feb 53 As a
result of the big London floods, Epsom offer Tilbury and Erith & B the
use of their ground at no cost

should it be
required. Both teams play a friendly here. See below.

14/2/53
Maidenhead have more chances, but Epsom win 2-1. Late goal from Vic Honey
(85)

21/2/53 Pat
Lynch knee injury. Unavailable, and Ray Chenery deputises. Poor game, with
Epsom marginally

improving in
2nd half. Ex-Epsom keeper Eric Bristow (50/51 - 6 apps) plays for
Leatherhead.

It was
Leatherhead's first ever Senior Shield match. Programme advises a hope that
they will meet later in the

regular
challenge matches later in the season, but no record of these yet. They were never played.

Leatherhead
play Dorking, not Epsom in the A L Wells Cup this year. Dorking are at Pixham
Lane in 1953.

28/2/53 Epsom
are the better side for 35 minutes, yet lose 4-0.

A week later
in the return match, Epsom dominate game, but can only win after a penalty,
as their keeper Tubb

stopped
everything that came at him. Papers said "best display all season by a
player at West Street"

Jim Crane hit
the bar from 50 yards, but his penalty is the only score.

11/3/53
Ex-player Roy Dymott scores HT for Sutton Police v RAF Kenley in Croydon
Wednesday League.

Mar 53 Denis
Ford almost leaves club as he was getting a new job at Dagenham, and was
going to play for Ford

Sports, but
changed his mind and stayed with Epsom.

Mar 53 Young
20 year old Reg Oakes just back from National Service, and playing for Res.
Previously with Juniors.

14/3/53 First
game at Erith since the flooding in January. Epsom won 2-1 with both from
Goddard, the first from 30 yards.

Following
14/3/53 results Epsom went back to the top of the table but were 2nd again by
11/4/53

21/3/53 3
goals scored in 90 seconds during second half. Two from Denis Ford and one
for Uxbridge.

An Uxbridge
supporter remarked that Bill Goddard could play for a professional team on
this form. Ernie Watkins was

better though,
according to papers in this 6-2 win at West Street.

Mar 53 Bill
Goodwin, Boxing Promoter announces that there will be an open air Boxing
Evening at West Street

on 5/6/53.
Only problem is finding a firm who can supply enough chairs!

March 53
Rumoured that future manager Bill Fraser may resign from Walton & Hersham
after criticism of his players

fitness. They
had just got to their second straight Amateur Cup semi-final. Surrey Comet
supports Fraser, and

he remains at
the club for now. He had also had a long spell in hospital earlier this
season.

28/3/53 Brian
Brumwell unavailable, so Ken Minter plays instead.

28/3/53 Jim
Crane has a 25 yard free kick saved, but he is first to react, and fired home
the loose ball from 10 yards!

Epsom play
"vastly superior" football, yet lose 3-1. Should have been 4 up at
HT, but Woking go through to SSS

Final where
they beat Banstead 2-1 at Woking.

28/3/53 Bob
Crane getting married. Unavailable.

3/4/53 Pat
Lynch sent off 77 mins after disputing a penalty decision at Worthing. It was
the winner. They were bottom.

4/4/53 Epsom
rebound by beating Carshalton 7-1 in front of a "record crowd"

Oddly enough,
Carshalton then beat Worthing 7-0 on the Easter Monday!

Bill Goddard
breaks Gordon Brogdale's post war scoring record of 44.

Supporters
Club selling Club ties at 5s.6d and Tubular Fringed Mufflers at 20s.6d! Also
squares in club colours at

15s and 22s.6d
each. What were these? Also tote draw held tonight at 7pm after Carshalton
match.

6/4/53
Friendly v Tilbury held mainly to raise money for Tilbury after big floods in
the area. Also Erith on 25/4/53.

Tilbury game
raised over £40, but not as much was raised for the Erith game.

Debut for Reg
Oakes, who is alive and well in 2005 after just having a heart by pass
operation. Uncle of current

Treasurer,
Rob Oakes. Geoff Porter and Ray Chenery recall a Geoff Oakes too, and thought
they were related.

Geoff was a
good player and was older than Reg apparently. The Oakes's lived in Meadow
Walk, Ewell.

6/4/53 Vic
Honey becomes father of a son. His wife is the sister of Sutton and
Carshalton player Dennis Dodd, who

played once
for Epsom in 1950/51.

11/4/53
Friendly v Sutton (H) was too friendly say papers. Tame performance in a 1-3
loss.

Apr 53
Mention of Bill Goddard being on 47 goals with 5 games left and looking
unlikely to break Reg Marlow's

record from
the 20's of 62 goals. THE BOOK refers to 83 and 85 goals in consecutive
seasons. Check!

The BOOK is
looking like it was well out. Marlow hits 65-69 goals in 1926/27, but much
less in 1925/26. Both the

BOOK and the
Herald are wrong!

18/4/53 A.
"Tubby" Braithwaite guested v Worthing. Loaned from Walton &
Hersham, where he was a regular.

Papers say
that Worthing are the worst side to have visited West Street this season.

18/4/53 A 5-1
win sends Epsom back to the top of the Corinthian League. A win and a draw in
final matches

is not good
enough to finish in the top two.

19/4/53 Pat
Lynch undergoes a hernia operation.

Ernie Watkins
is captain in Pat Lynch's absence.

22/4/53
W.Phelps guested at Slough. HT not certain, but Epsom missed a sitter after
40 minutes, when they were

already 1-0
up. HT 1-1. Slough Observer says Honey scored, not Walker, but I will stick
with BOOK as they are more

likely to know
the scorer for certain. Slough Express agrees with BOOK too.

25/4/53
Programme (single sheet - undated) issued for Erith friendly, but dated
"25th March 1953". They were a

month out! All
gate money was handed to Erith & B. A few hundred were present.

2/5/53 Kick
off at 6.30 because of FA Cup Final that day. Was
prog issued?

May 53
Surbiton Lagoon opens.

After 7/3/53
results Carshalton Ath were bottom of the League, yet they finished League
Champions!!

Supporters
Club AGM 27/5/53. Announced that membership is a record 420 but nowhere near
target of 1000.

Interest in
the Whist Drives faded even when the meeting point was moved to Foresters
Hall from St Barnabas Hall.

A concert was
also cancelled due to lack of support.

Professional
Boxing programme arranged for Friday June 5th at West Street

On 2nd June
Coronation evening has a Pony Derby and Amateur Boxing evening planned. See
1953/54 section.

Reserves:

Corinthian League Reserve Division

Position

6th out of 14

Reserve
Manager

Tommy Rochester

referred to in prog as "that grand old man
of Amateur soccer"

Neale Trophy

2nd

Edgware

1-3

SIC

1st

Met Police

2-4+

Exempt to First Round

06/09/52 Programme Line Up for this match: Reg Taylor,
R.Chenery, Ken Allan, Gordon Sanders, Bob Crane, Ken Minter,

Cyril Porter,
Ivor Hughes, Les Ford, Jim Crane, Tommy Rochester

Jack Wood came
in for Jim Crane who played for the first team.

6/9/52 Epsom
defeat Chesham 7-0 at West Street. Hudson the keeper is injured in the second
half and they finished with

ten men. Ivor
Hughes "banged in one of the most spectacular goals ever seen on the
West Street ground" says prog.

13/9/52 Up to
second place following a 2-0 win at Erith & Belvedere.

20/9/52 No
game for Reserves.

27/09/52
Programme Line Up for this match: Reg Taylor, Tommy Rochester, Ken Allan,
Gordon Sanders, Bob Crane,

Ken Minter,
Paddy Moore, Ivor Hughes, Les Ford, Peter Hayward, Jack Wood

Les Ford was
missing so Harry Saunders made his debut and would score frequently in the
coming months.

27/9/52 Epsom
core twice in the second half to win 2-0 at Maidstone United.

4/10/52 Harry
Saunders scores HT in a 4-2 win over Tilbury in Neale Trophy.

11/10/52 Lost
6-4 at Edgware, although Epsom "scored" six of the ten goals that
day! Were 2-0 down after 8 minutes but

got it back to
2-2 quite quickly. Couldn't hold on though.

18/10/52
Programme Line Up for this match: Reg Taylor, Tommy Rochester, Ken Allan, Ray
Chenery, Bob Crane,

Ken Minter,
Paddy Moore, Ivor Hughes, Harry Saunders, Peter Hayward, Peter Neale

This line up
was correct.

18/10/52
Grays were top of the table but we defeated them 2-1 at West Street. Ivor
Hughes scored "a picture goal".

Reserves went
top on 25/10/52. Only for a week though, as they had no league game on
01/11/52.

01/11/52
Programme Line Up for this match: Reg Taylor, Ray Chenery, Tommy Rochester,
Gordon Sanders, Bob Crane,

Ken Minter,
Paddy Moore, Ivor Hughes, Harry Saunders, Peter Hayward, Les Ford

This line up
was correct.

1/11/52
instead we lost in the Neale Trophy 3-1 at Edgware Town.

15/11/52 this
result takes Epsom top again but a loss at home to Uxbridge on 20/12/52 loses
the position.

15/11/52 defeated Hounslow 3-2 at West Street despite
losing Peter Freeman to injury after just 10 minutes. Dave Reed and

Ron Digweed made debuts this day. Reed took Tommy
Rochester's place as he was suffering with pneumonia which kept

him in
hospital until January.

22/11/52 No
game for Reserves.

13/12/52
Programme Line Up for this match: Reg Taylor, Ray Chenery, Ken Allan, Gordon
Sanders, Andy Layzell,

Ken Minter,
Paddy Moore, Ron Digweed, Ivor Hughes, Bill Mackie, Mike Watkins

Ivor Hughes
was missing but Harry Saunders came in instead.

13/12/52 Two
more new players this day as Andy Layzell and Bill "Jock" Mackie
played. Ken Allan is also now available

again after
injury. Worthing hold us to a 2-2 draw at West Street.

13/12/52 This
draw does put us top of the table again but only for a week.

20/12/52
Programme Line Up for this match: Reg Taylor, Ray Chenery, Ken Allan, Gordon
Sanders, Andy Layzell,

Bob Crane,
Paddy Moore, Ron Digweed, Ivor Hughes, Bill Mackie, Mike Watkins

This line up
was correct.

20/12/52 Epsom
lose 2-4 at home to Uxbridge.

26/12/52 An
unusual day for a debut but Bernard Canham played his first game on the left
wing and gave a "most

promising
performance".

27/12/52 As
with the first team game at West Street, the Reserve game at Colston Avenue v
Carshalton Athletic is

postponed due
to fog.

10/1/53
Maidstone (H) is not played.

24/1/53 Epsom
lose 3-1 to Slough not 3-0. Programme is probably wrong, as this goal is
included in the league tables

for the rest
of the season. It also advises that the forwards were "most
disappointing".

31/1/53
Uxbridge (A) is p-p.

7/2/53 Ivor
Hughes & Bob Crane selected for Surrey Juniors 1-1 London Juniors @
Sutton on 7/2/53. Hughes scores.

21/2/53 No
game for Reserves.

28/2/53 Stan Scott returns from injury and scores twice
while Ruffell scored a "real sizzler" and Ken Minter did well in
this

4-3 home win
over Erith & Belvedere.

07/03/53
Programme Line Up for this match: Reg Taylor, Ray Chenery, Ken Allan, Gordon
Sanders, Bob Crane,

G.Smith,
Bernard Canham, Ivor Hughes, Harry Saunders, Ron Digweed, Ron Ruffell

Ken Minter came in for Allan with Smith dropping to full
back, and Reg Oakes came in for the absent (injured or 1sts reserve?) Hughes.

7/3/53 Epsom
get a pont from a 3-3 draw at Grays Athletic.

14/3/53 Harry
Saunders scores 4 in a 7-3 win over Maidenhead Utd. Programme advises that
Minter and Ruffell were

outstanding
while Sanders and Saunders "did well", despite Saunders' four
goals.

28/3/53 or
3/4/53 Only one programme was issued - number 28 but was it for Edgware or
Maidstone?

4/4/53
Anthony Canham played and scored in a 3-3 draw at Hounslow Town. Related to
Bernard, probably brother, but

never reached
the first team. It was the only game he played for the Reserves.

18/4/53
Despite all tables tallying up, the BOOK says we lost 2-3 at Uxbridge this
day when all other records show a 1-2

loss. The BOOK
even advises two scorers. I will amend in records to 2-3 for now. Check for
reports.

25/4/53 Season
ends with a 3-1 defeat at Carshalton Athletic.