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

CL

Position 12th out of 16

FAC

1q

Carshalton Athletic

0-1

AC

1q

Molesey

0-3

LC

1st

Slough Town

0-3

SSC

2q

Petters Sports

0-3

Home
Ground:

West Street, Ewell

New Club
colours are light blue shirts with white facings and royal blue shorts. Used
on 20/8/60 v Slough.

President

John Martin

Chairman

Peter Carpenter

replacing George Tarran, ill health, but would
return in future.

v-c - Bill Alder

Secretary

H.A.(Harry) Mordan

Assistant Sec Mrs Dorothy Lipscombe

Press Sec

Ken Knowlson

Programme notes also. He did this last year
too, and maybe earlier.

Treasurer

W.F.(Bill) Inkpen

All elected en bloc at AGM 27/7/60

Manager and
Coach

Bill Kennedy (ex Hibs, Stirling Alb, and
Millwall)

6/2/61 Bill
Kennedy sacked by club. Derek Evans appointed as replacement

Evans (31) brings in tactic talks and blackboard
instruction, although Pat Lynch did something similar a few years back.

Kennedy was
paid £42. Not sure if this was connected to sacking.

PT Instructor

Bob Jones

appointed
in June 60. Was previously here about 5 years ago helping Doug Whitehead.

Groundsman

Mr J Harris

INCLUDING THIS SEASON AND ONWARDS NO FRIENDLY GAMES ARE
INCLUDED IN CLUB RECORDS AS OFFICIAL MATCHES

Additional
Info contained within the BIG MINUTES BOOK.

July 60
Norman Dearlove leaves to join Sutton. Had guested on an end of season tour
for them. Joined Epsom in Dec 59.

July 60 Jorgen
(Jan) Sorensen retires aged 35 to concentrate on his business. He ran some
men's outfitting shops.

and was unable
to find the time for training any more. Had been skipper of reserves in 59/60
with occasional first team

appearances.
Came to England in 1949 after playing in Denmark Division 1. Played for
Kingstonian, Erith, and Sutton

before joining
Epsom in 1954.

19/7/60
training starts.

AGM 27/7/60

27/7/60 Name
Change from Epsom F.C. to Epsom & Ewell F.C. for two reasons 1) because
the HQ was in Ewell

and 2) because
the bulk of support was in Ewell, West Ewell and Stoneleigh.

Not because of
merger with Ewell & Stoneleigh.

Club had decided to change name at the previous years
meeting, but club rules meant that they had to wait a year.

Corinthian
League were still awaiting official confirmation of this in October 1960, so
the club wrote then.

New printers
of programme. J.W.Dunn Ltd, Cheam

Club charges
1s.3d for adults - 6d for oap's and under 14's.

13/8/60 Public trial - 50 expected. Refereed by Charlie
Holliday, who later that year would run the line at Barcelona v Real Madrid.

in a European
Cup match.

Res defence
and first team attack v first team defence and res attack. Former won 3-2.

Charlie
Holliday's own record book shows two matches Blues v Red (3-1 to Blues) and
Red v Blues (2-0 to Red).

It also shows
that he refereed the first match and was a linesman in the second.

Aug 60 Johnny
Bangs leaves Sutton for Leatherhead, but ends up at Banstead with Fred Chitty
by November.

Aug 60 Ron
Francis retires. Ken MacDonald and John Ryan are both fit and ready to start
the season though.

two new young
signings, Ted Scratcher (Redhill), and R.Arbuckle (Kingstonian). Also joining
is local lad Peter Keary (18).

Aug 60 Fred
Chitty appointed Banstead's first ever manager. He resigned from Epsom in
1959 after 23 years there.

Aug 60 New
signing Frank Whitehouse (28) from League Champions Uxbridge. Had also been
with Yeading.

Aug 60 Sid Law
leaves for Worcester Park.

20/8/60 Tony
Wells and Ray Ellis hurt in match for Corinthian League v Uxbridge. Won 1-0

20/8/60
majority of people asked at the game, preferred the new club name. Some
suggested "United" too, but not many.

20/8/60 Ray
Ellis broke bone in his hand. Out 1 month.

Following the injury, John Tilley filled in but he was on
holiday for a week, so outfield player Ian McTear played in goal instead.

20/8/60 An
incomplete programme is issued without notes, which the club apologises for
the following Saturday.

27/8/60 Ted
Scratcher too unfit to play.

31/8/60 Colin
Tilley on holiday so Ian McTear replaces him, plays well and holds his place
when Tilley returns.

31/8/60 21 year old Dennis Wells returned from holiday to
watch his new team (Epsom) play, and Tony Carroll pulled out with

injury, so he played. Got on the field eight minutes late,
but scored with virtually his first touch "after a few seconds". Quickest

ever debut
goal for an Epsom player.

3/9/60
Programme advises the annual subscription for the Supporters and Social Club
is 2s this season.

Aiming for
2000 members of the Tote now.

10/9/60 v
Carshalton Ath. Ray and Dave Fillery (scored pen), and Jim Sheehan, and Reg
Walker played for Carshalton.

Sept 60 Peter Keary signs amateur forms with Millwall, and
plays for their reserves frequently, starting on 19/9/60 at Southend.

Doesn't work
out. Originally just turned up at Epsom and asked for a trial.

Sept 60 Bryn
Robinson joins from Sutton.

17/9/60
Maidenhead down to ten men for most of game.

24/9/60 Carshalton F.C. have Roy Swetman (England and
Surrey w-k) and ex Epsom player Tommy Wright playing for them.

24/9/60 Game v
Carshalton FC switched to West Street despite being drawn as their home game.

Sept 60 Mick
Simmonds joins from Walton & Hersham. Previously with Leatherhead. Lives
in Adelphi Road, Epsom.

Mike Devereaux
also joins from Carshalton Ath, but only plays once.

£18 quoted to
effect temporary repair to the stand, as full repair was deemed too
expensive.

Club £11 in
debt at 27/9/60. Supporters paid for stand repair in the end.

Steve
Dunwoody absent doing national service in Northern Ireland, and playing for
Distillery occasionally while he was there.

Sandor Donath
(24) joins club after moving from Nottingham. Hungarian. Played once for
first team.

1/10/60 Peter
Keary unavailable playing for Millwall Res again. Club were originally
reluctant to let him play for some reason.

1/10/60 Programme advises that a new mower has been
purchased, and training lights to "illuminate all the ground" is
imminent.

1/10/60 Epsom
get past Whitehawk 3-2 at West Street in Amateur Cup. Bill Hawkins gets two
but mispen also.

Oct 60 Epsom
sign Ted Drake Junior (19) from Wimbledon Res. Son of legend Ted Drake.

Oct 60
Bernard Smith and Ron Webb both join from Carshalton, while Mick Barlow joins
from local football after scoring 100

goals last
season for Carshalton Tech. Ron Webb previously with Tooting & M,
Carshalton Ath, and Leatherhead.

Oct 60 Dave
Mollatt joins from Leatherhead.

15/10/60 Ray
Francis scores twice for Molesey as they knock Epsom out of the Amateur Cup.
Joins us later that year.

Reference to
Bill Hawkins being ex Walton and Bromley, and also Hawkers too.

18/10/60 The
question of replacing the team manager was discussed by the committee. They
agreed to refer

it to Mr
Martin the President, who suggested they wait until they had a suitable
replacement.

22/10/60
played in red & white v Petters Sports

Petters Sports are actually Petter Sports on the front of
their programme. They formed as Lagonda Works in 1919, and reappeared

in SSL in
1936 as just Lagonda. In 1948 Lagonda was renamed McLaren Sports, then
between 56/59ish they were called

Petter &
Bryce Sports, then in 1959/60 Bryce factory went to Gloucester, and now
called just Peter Sports.

22/10/60
Dennis Wells injured. 10 men for second half. Ellis also injured for ten
minutes so Mollatt went in goal on debut!

Oct 60 Tony
Beadle (optician) signs from Kingstonian after scoring 30 goals for their
reserves. Played once then left in Nov.

29/10/60 Bill
Hawkins has motorcycle accident and is unable to play. Also Ted Drake has
flu.

Reference to a
Supporters Club AGM recently, but with little support. Poor weather.

Nov 60 Terry
Flynn joins from Dartford. Had been previously at Leatherhead and Eastbourne.
Had been training at Millwall.

5/11/60 Ray
Ellis saves penalty v Letchworth.

Nov 60 George
Mitchell rejoins club but plays only once. Dick Mead also joins from
Kingstonian.

19/11/60
Millard (2) and Ray Dowse score for Leatherhead v Epsom.

Nov 60 Peter
Keary returns after his spell with Millwall Reserves

Nov 60 Dave
Farley breaks his arm for Banstead.

21/11/60 Club
minutes make reference to an Index system of players??

26/11/60 Epsom
recover from trailing 2-1 to win 5-4 v Slough.

3/12/60
Wokingham player sent off 50th minute ish.

10/12/60
Angry Epsom fans gather by dressing rooms to boo the referee A.G.Cook
(Chichester) after Ken MacDonald was

sent off in
78th minute. Reporter Roger Bing said that he hadn't seen the crowd so angry
with an official before.

Apparently MacDonald had never even been spoken to by a
ref before. MacDonald requests a personal hearing. Held on 3/1/61.

Unfortunately
he is suspended for 14 days from 3/1/61 for allegedly striking an opponent.

One or two
spectators obstructed a linesman in the process, and the club will be fined
for this later.

Horsham were
unbeaten before this win.

10/12/60
informal social evening at football club
with bar extension until 11.45.

Programme
24/12 says it went very well, largely due to the efforts of Bernard
"Podge" Willis.

12/12/60 club
writes asking to participate in the Surrey Senior Shield for this season.
Declined.

12/12/60 club
also writes to F.A. asking to become affiliated to them. Application rejected
in Oct 61.

12/12/60 BBC
confirm they are unable to include the Corinthian League results in their
broadcasts.

12/12/60 Club
charged £36.8.6 for clearing the long grass around the ground. Club asked for
a detailed breakdown.

Finally
reduced in Aug 61 to £25!!

17/12/60 Epsom
scored both goals on separate occasions in the second half when they had only
ten on the pitch.

24/12/60 Only
ten men for most of the second half as Keary suffered a shoulder injury.
Gordon Cairns scores for Worthing.

24/12/60
Double programme issued for Worthing and Eastbourne (H) 26/12/60. Numbered 11
and 12.

31/12/60 Ray
Ellis saves penalty v Eastbourne.

Jan 61 Five a
side competition run at Epsom Baths. Johnny Byrne and Arthur Rowe present
trophies.

Jan 61 Derek
Evans joins club after being out injured for over a year. Previously with
Hounslow for 5 years.

Previously
capped once by England at Amateur level, and had rep honours for FA, Middx,
Middx Wanderers (capt)

Civil Service,
Athenian League and Corinthian League.

Joins up with
Ken MacDonald who had moved from Hounslow in Oct 59.

Jan 61 Dave
Farley joins from Banstead.

Jan 61 Reg
Peck, dad of Les leaves Sutton.

Jan 61 Johnny
Bangs leaves Banstead for Kingstonian who need cover for injured Johnny
Whing. Scores three on debut.

Jan 61 Malcolm
Robbins and Reg Walker both playing in Sutton's first XI.

7/1/61
Programme advises that the Tote has reached a "stalemate figure" of
around 900.

Club advises
that it has asked if it can enter the Surrey Senior Shield, but appears to
have been rejected.

9/1/61 Club
advised by Borough Council that an extension of two years was granted for
Club House and

refreshment
hut, but not for the covered standing accommodation, presumably at top end of
ground.

9/1/61 Club
fined £5.5s (5 guineas) + £1.14s costs for obstructing a linesman in the
course of his duty v Horsham 10/12/60.

Club told to
put a mention in programme for 2 weeks about the incident, because a
supporter impeded the linesman.

Warning first
appears in programme 13 on 7/1/61, and again in number 14 on 14/1/61..

Mick Simmonds
takes over as captain while MacDonald is suspended.

9/1/61 Surrey
County F.A. query whether the club's name change is in order!

9/1/61 Ken
Brown cautioned, don't know which game.

Jan 61
Supporters raised £62 for new lawn mower.

14/1/61 Club
programme advises the deaths of former Secretary Ernest (Ernie) Fletcher and
Bill Mansey.

21/1/61
Programme refers to the vital but unrewarding job that Ray Chenery does as
Reserve manager.

28/1/61 Larry
Pritchard makes debut v Dorking. Paper calls him Les!

According to
Geoff Porter, he is still living locally at 7 Glenwood Road, Stoneleigh.

28/1/61 Tim
Higgins plays for Dorking v Epsom.

4/2/61 Farley
penalty save at Edgware.

6/2/61
Supporters Club also donate £100

6/2/61 Club
writes advising that they were not in favour of promotion/relegation from the
lower Delphian League

However, Club
wrote to higher Athenian League in favour of such a proposal!!

6/2/61 Ernie
Watkins wrote to club asking if his services were still required. Committee
referred him to Mr Evans.

Watkins left
for Banstead before next meeting on 6/3/61, ending 15 years service. Made
Banstead debut in March 61.

11/2/61 Hit
woodwork four times, but still hand league leaders Maidenhead their first
home league defeat of season.

Feb 61 Peter
Wood (34) retires.

Feb 61 Ken
'Dickie' Bird joins from Kingstonian. He has completed National Service

March 61 Tommy
Millard, Johnny Weaving and Peter Keary join Banstead.

March 61 Both
sides of the ground now have lighting. Training 7/3/61 saw them switched on
for the first time.

March 61
engaged ex manager Doug Whitehead to scout for club.

Previously
with Kingstonian and won Amateur Cup medal in 1933. Also a previous Scottish
Amateur International.

March 61 Peter
Kendall joins club. Formerly with Eastbourne, Carshalton and Leatherhead.

March 61 Malcolm Robbins rejoins club from Sutton. Had
been at Epsom for 2 years originally. Ray Francis joins from Molesey.

25/2/61 Epsom
a shade fortunate to collect both points against Wokingham. W 1-0 with a Dave
Mollatt goal.

4/3/61 No game
for first XI.

6/3/61 club
written to by Surrey Combination asking if we wanted to put in an 'A' side.
Club were unable to do this.

6/3/61 Club
also unable to travel to Belgium for a tour. Club wrote to Belgian F.A.
accordingly.

6/3/61 Rent
not paid this month. Monthly rent was £50.

11/3/61 Evans
injured - ligament trouble. 10 men for entire second half. Lost 5-0.

11/3/61
Chesham keeper Jim Morris "a very workmanlike performer"

Mar 61 Geoff
King joins from Hounslow.

25/3/61 Programme advises congratulations to Ray Ellis and
Peter Collett, both of whom were married on 18/3/61. Collett has

moved to Bucks
and leaves the club.

Also Tony
Wells is unable to play again this season for personal reasons, and Dick Mead
has not been very well recently.

Appeal is made
for the Tote, in its 55th week it appears to be contracting, not expanding.

Apr 61 Former
Youth teamer and future England international Johnny Byrne moves to Mitcham.

1/4/61 Mayor of Epsom and Ewell Councillor. F.H.Knight
attends game and collection taken for King George V Jubilee Trust Fund.

Dagenham
collect all three points with an easy 6-1 win.

10/4/61
Council advise that a new roof would be sufficient for the covered
accommodation to retain its licence.

15/4/61 Bill
Hawkins injured after 10 minutes - Passenger.

16/4/61 Roger
Brunwin scores eleven goals in a match for his Sunday side

Asked by
Sutton & Cheam Charities to participate in a friendly with Banstead. Club
agreed and offered May 6th.

29/4/61 Single
sheet programme issued by Erith & B.

No May
Committee meeting as not enough people present, despite a planned meeting
after with Supporters club.

May 61 Brian
Jenkins scored twice for Walton & H as they beat Tooting & M 2-1. 53
goals for the season.

May 61 Epsom
announce there will be two trial matches in June to avoid the poor starts of
recent years.

May 61
Vincent Blore ex-Villa, Derby and West Ham gk runs Ewell County Secondary
School for boys and have won their

league for the fifth straight year. He was credited with
discovering Johnny Byrne after he played for Effingham against his team.

Terry Self was
in the schoolboy side for the second straight year.

6/5/61 Cup and
plaques presented to the club after beating Banstead in Hospital Cup.

It turns out that the Hospital Cup was the very same
Sutton Hospital Cup that was originally played for in 1903 and won by Epsom

Town in 1924. It is solid silver and worth about £4,000 at
2011 and it is currently property of the Sutton & District League
who

inherited it
and use it to this day. I have pictures of it now.

5/6/61 Mr
Inkpen advised that the club had debts of £580 ish.

Summer Fete
for 2nd Ewell Scouts at ground on 18/6/60. Scouts donated £4.4s.

Another one
agreed for 10/6/61. Donation to club funds would follow.

Reserves:

Corinthian League Reserve division

Position

10th out of 16

Res Manager

Ray (LR) Chenery

NT

1st

Leatherhead

2-3

SIC

1st

Fisher Athletic

1-3

ICC

SF

Kingstonian

0-1

10/9/60 Alan Littlewood, new signing from Kingstonian
fractured his wrist early in the 7-0 loss at Maidenhead. Prog said 2-0
(wrong).

He would be in
plaster for a month.

17/9/60 Ken
Brown scores 5 v Croydon (SIC)

24/9/60
Leatherhead (A) is p-p as the ground was not available at Fetcham Grove.

1/10/60 No
game for Reserves this day.

8/10/60 Epsom
gave gate receipts after expenses of 38s 4d to Frinton Rovers. Game was
switched to Epsom.

12/11/60
Longheath Rangers visit and are beaten 3-0. Game switched to West Street.
Drawn away.

26/11/60 Epsom defeat the Post Office Engineers 9-1 on
their old ground at Waddon, scene of many battles back in the thirties and

forties when the clubs were London League rivals. The
ground still exists in Plough Lane as a cricket pitch now, with no trace of
the

stand which
disappeared in the nineties. A new pavilion sits on the site of the old
stand.

26/12/60
Eastbourne (A) is not played.

21/1/61 Epsom
bow out of SIC 3-1 at Fisher Athletic. Would have been away to Carshalton
Athletic or Redhill in next round.

25/2/61 Epsom
pinch a late equaliser in a 2-2 draw at Wembley.

18/3/61 Peter
Collett leaving club, as he is getting married and moving to Bucks.

18/3/61 Ray
Eliis also gets married this day.

March 61 Tony
Wells is unavailable for personal reasons and won't play for the rest of the
season.

March 61 Dave
Farley's brother Terry joins and plays for reserves. Former Leatherhead
Sutton and Banstead player.

25/3/61
Reference in programme to the reserves unbeaten run of two months since the
Fisher SIC loss on 21/1/61.

25/3/61 Lew
Tucker sent off at Letchworth. Unbeaten run ends 0-1 there.

29/4/61 Res lose 6-0 at Wokingham. For some reason though
a Team photo was taken which shows Ray Chenery as Manager and

Micky Williams
in the line up amongst others.

2/5/61 Surrey Intermediate Charity Cup Semi Final played
at West Street as there were building works going on at Kingstonian's

Richmond Road
ground, where the tie was originally drawn to be played.

3/5/61 game
abandoned due to heavy rain after 48 minutes with Epsom leading 3-2. Game
never completed.

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

CL

Position 12th out of 16

FAC

1q

Carshalton Athletic

0-1

AC

1q

Molesey

0-3

LC

1st

Slough Town

0-3

SSC

2q

Petters Sports

0-3

Home
Ground:

West Street, Ewell

New Club
colours are light blue shirts with white facings and royal blue shorts. Used
on 20/8/60 v Slough.

President

John Martin

Chairman

Peter Carpenter

replacing George Tarran, ill health, but would
return in future.

v-c - Bill Alder

Secretary

H.A.(Harry) Mordan

Assistant Sec Mrs Dorothy Lipscombe

Press Sec

Ken Knowlson

Programme notes also. He did this last year
too, and maybe earlier.

Treasurer

W.F.(Bill) Inkpen

All elected en bloc at AGM 27/7/60

Manager and
Coach

Bill Kennedy (ex Hibs, Stirling Alb, and
Millwall)

6/2/61 Bill
Kennedy sacked by club. Derek Evans appointed as replacement

Evans (31) brings in tactic talks and blackboard
instruction, although Pat Lynch did something similar a few years back.

Kennedy was
paid £42. Not sure if this was connected to sacking.

PT Instructor

Bob Jones

appointed
in June 60. Was previously here about 5 years ago helping Doug Whitehead.

Groundsman

Mr J Harris

INCLUDING THIS SEASON AND ONWARDS NO FRIENDLY GAMES ARE
INCLUDED IN CLUB RECORDS AS OFFICIAL MATCHES

Additional
Info contained within the BIG MINUTES BOOK.

18/6/60 2nd
Ewell Scouts used the West Street ground for a summer fete. Club to receive a
donation.

July 60
Norman Dearlove leaves to join Sutton. Had guested on an end of season tour
for them. Joined Epsom in Dec 59.

July 60 Jorgen
(Jan) Sorensen retires aged 35 to concentrate on his business. He ran some
men's outfitting shops.

and was unable
to find the time for training any more. Had been skipper of reserves in 59/60
with occasional first team

appearances.
Came to England in 1949 after playing in Denmark Division 1. Played for
Kingstonian, Erith, and Sutton

before joining
Epsom in 1954.

19/7/60
training starts.

AGM 27/7/60

27/7/60 Name
Change from Epsom F.C. to Epsom & Ewell F.C. for two reasons 1) because
the HQ was in Ewell

and 2) because
the bulk of support was in Ewell, West Ewell and Stoneleigh.

Not because of
merger with Ewell & Stoneleigh.

Club had decided to change name at the previous years
meeting, but club rules meant that they had to wait a year.

Corinthian
League were still awaiting official confirmation of this in October 1960, so
the club wrote then.

New printers
of programme. J.W.Dunn Ltd, Cheam

Club charges
1s.3d for adults - 6d for oap's and under 14's.

13/8/60 Public trial - 50 expected. Refereed by Charlie
Holliday, who later that year would run the line at Barcelona v Real Madrid.

in a European
Cup match.

Res defence
and first team attack v first team defence and res attack. Former won 3-2.

Charlie
Holliday's own record book shows two matches Blues v Red (3-1 to Blues) and
Red v Blues (2-0 to Red).

It also shows
that he refereed the first match and was a linesman in the second.

Aug 60 Johnny
Bangs leaves Sutton for Leatherhead, but ends up at Banstead with Fred Chitty
by November.

Aug 60 future
player Colin Spriggs is at Dulwich Hamlet.

Aug 60 Ron
Francis retires. Ken MacDonald and John Ryan are both fit and ready to start
the season though.

two new young
signings, Ted Scratcher (Redhill), and R.Arbuckle (Kingstonian). Also joining
is local lad Peter Keary (18).

Aug 60 Fred
Chitty appointed Banstead's first ever manager. He resigned from Epsom in
1959 after 23 years there.

Aug 60 New
signing Frank Whitehouse (28) from League Champions Uxbridge. Had also been
with Yeading.

Aug 60 Sid Law
leaves for Worcester Park.

Aug 60 future
player Maurice Griffiths joins Carshalton Athletic from Tooting & Mitcham

Aug 60 former
player Johnny French is Sheerwater trainer

20/8/60 Tony
Wells and Ray Ellis hurt in match for Corinthian League v Uxbridge. Won 1-0

20/8/60
majority of people asked at the game, preferred the new club name. Some
suggested "United" too, but not many.

20/8/60 Ray
Ellis broke bone in his hand. Out 1 month.

Following the injury, John Tilley filled in but he was on
holiday for a week, so outfield player Ian McTear played in goal instead.

20/8/60 An
incomplete programme is issued without notes, which the club apologises for
the following Saturday.

27/8/60 Ted
Scratcher too unfit to play.

27/8/60 Micky
Williams booked as Epsom lose 5-2 at Slough in Memorial Shield replay.

31/8/60 Colin
Tilley on holiday so Ian McTear replaces him, plays well and holds his place
when Tilley returns.

31/8/60 21 year old Dennis Wells returned from holiday to
watch his new team (Epsom) play, and Tony Carroll pulled out with

injury, so he played. Got on the field eight minutes late,
but scored with virtually his first touch "after a few seconds". Quickest

ever debut
goal for an Epsom player.

3/9/60
Programme advises the annual subscription for the Supporters and Social Club
is 2s this season.

Aiming for
2000 members of the Tote now.

10/9/60 v
Carshalton Ath. Ray and Dave Fillery (scored pen), and Jim Sheehan, and Reg
Walker played for Carshalton.

Sept 60 Peter Keary signs amateur forms with Millwall, and
plays for their reserves frequently, starting on 19/9/60 at Southend.

Doesn't work out. Originally turned up at Epsom and asked
for a trial. Originally advised as a 16 year old but now 18 says Advertiser.

Sept 60 Bryn
Robinson joins from Sutton.

13/9/60 Club minutes from this day show the programme
printers were orignially Messrs Youngmans of Epsom but they required the

team sheets
to be with them on the Monday! Messrs J.W.Dunn Ltd - 6 Malden Road, Cheam,
Surrey will now produce them.

13/9/60 also agreed this day to let the pitch for eight
weeks of Sunday football to Northcliffe Sports Club. Fee £2. Mr Harris the

groundsman is
to be advised.

Club also agree to donate £1 1s towards a presentation to
the retiring Corinthian League Secretary W.E Kilbourn. Proposed Mr Alder

and Seconded Mr Inkpen - unanimous. However, committee are
also agreed that they were not in fvavour of a Corinthian League Dinner.

It would still
go ahead though.

13/9/60 Club to chase 2nd Ewell Scouts for a donation
relating to their summer fete at West Street in June. Nothing received yet.

13/9/60
Supporters Club donate £62 for a lawnmower. A letter of thanks is to be sent
to them by the club.

17/9/60
Maidenhead down to ten men for most of game.

24/9/60 Carshalton F.C. have Roy Swetman (England and
Surrey w-k) and ex Epsom player Tommy Wright playing for them.

24/9/60 Game v
Carshalton FC switched to West Street despite being drawn as their home game.

Sept 60 Mick
Simmonds joins from Walton & Hersham. Previously with Leatherhead. Lives
in Adelphi Road, Epsom.

Mike Devereaux
also joins from Carshalton Ath, but only plays once.

27/9/60 £18
quoted to effect temporary repair to the stand, as full repair was deemed too
expensive.

Club £11 in
debt at 27/9/60. Supporters paid for stand repair in the end.

Steve
Dunwoody absent doing national service in Northern Ireland, and playing for
Distillery occasionally while he was there.

Sandor Donath
(24) joins club after moving from Nottingham. Hungarian. Played once for
first team.

1/10/60 Peter
Keary unavailable playing for Millwall Res again. Club were originally
reluctant to let him play for some reason.

1/10/60 Programme advises that a new mower has been
purchased, and training lights to "illuminate all the ground" is
imminent.

1/10/60 Epsom
get past Whitehawk 3-2 at West Street in Amateur Cup. Bill Hawkins gets two
but mispen also.

Ted Murphy joined Wimbledon from T&M in Oct 1960. Had
previously signed for Colchester in August as he was living to Essex.

He had
previously singed Amateur forms for Tottenham and Chelsea.

Oct 60 Epsom
sign Ted Drake Junior (19) from Wimbledon Res. Son of legend Ted Drake.

Oct 60 former
players Johnny Bangs and Johnny Hitchcock are at Banstead

Oct 60
Bernard Smith and Ron Webb both join from Carshalton, while Mick Barlow joins
from local football after scoring 100

goals last
season for Carshalton Tech. Ron Webb previously with Tooting & M,
Carshalton Ath, and Leatherhead.

Oct 60 Dave
Mollatt joins from Leatherhead.

Oct 60 Tommy
Millard plays once for Banstead and scores four but is expected to join
Leatherhead

15/10/60 Ray
Francis scores twice for Molesey as they knock Epsom out of the Amateur Cup.
Joins us later that year.

Reference to
Bill Hawkins being ex Walton and Bromley, and also Hawkers too.

18/10/60 reported at Committee Meeting that 2nd Ewell
Scouts had now donated £4 4s to the club in respect of their summer fete.

18/10/60 new playing members of the club accepted as
members: Ted Drake, Dave Mollatt, F.Wood, E.Williamson, Mick Simmons,

P.Russek, Ron
Webb.

18/10/60 The
question of replacing the team manager was discussed by the committee. They
agreed to refer

it to Mr
Martin the President, who suggested they wait until they had a suitable
replacement.

Also agreed to draw up a rota where three Committee
Members would attend Reserve home matches and one would travel to their away

matches.

22/10/60
played in red & white v Petters Sports

Petters Sports are actually Petter Sports on the front of
their programme. They formed as Lagonda Works in 1919, and reappeared

in SSL in
1936 as just Lagonda. In 1948 Lagonda was renamed McLaren Sports, then
between 56/59ish they were called

Petter &
Bryce Sports, then in 1959/60 Bryce factory went to Gloucester, and now
called just Petter Sports.

22/10/60
Dennis Wells injured. 10 men for second half. Ellis also injured for ten
minutes so Mollatt went in goal on debut!

Oct 60 Tony
Beadle (optician) signs from Kingstonian after scoring 30 goals for their
reserves. Played once then left in Nov.

25/10/60 Joe
McLaughlin resigns as a player to join Leatherhead.

Oct 60 Ted
Murphy joins Wimbledon following the Tooting & Mitcham
"walkout"

29/10/60 Glyn
Howells got the bumps to celebrate his 19th birthday the day before

29/10/60 Bill
Hawkins has motorcycle accident and is unable to play. Also Ted Drake has
flu.

Reference to a
Supporters Club AGM recently, but with little support. Poor weather.

Nov 60 Terry
Flynn joins from Dartford. Had been previously at Leatherhead and Eastbourne.
Had been training at Millwall.

5/11/60 Ray
Ellis saves penalty v Letchworth.

Nov 60 George
Mitchell rejoins club but plays only once. Dick Mead also joins from
Kingstonian.

19/11/60
Millard (2) and Ray Dowse score for Leatherhead v Epsom.

Nov 60 Peter
Keary returns after his spell with Millwall Reserves

Nov 60 future
keeper Dave Farley breaks his arm at Hampton for Banstead.

21/11/60 Club
minutes make reference to an Index system of players??

26/11/60 Epsom
recover from trailing 2-1 to win 5-4 v Slough.

Dec 60 Jim
Sheehan returns to Bromley after two months at Carshalton

3/12/60 Wokingham player Lunnon sent off just after
Epsom's equaliser which came in the 50th minute and was a solo goal by Flynn.

10/12/60
Angry Epsom fans gather by dressing rooms to boo the referee A.G.Cook
(Chichester) after Ken MacDonald was

sent off in
78th minute. Reporter Roger Bing said that he hadn't seen the crowd so angry
with an official before.

Apparently MacDonald had never even been spoken to by a
ref before. MacDonald requests a personal hearing. Held on 3/1/61.

Unfortunately
he is suspended for 14 days from 3/1/61 for allegedly striking an opponent.

One or two
spectators obstructed a linesman in the process, and the club will be fined
for this later.

Horsham were
unbeaten before this 2-1 Epsom win.

10/12/60
informal social evening at football club
with bar extension until 11.45.

Programme
24/12 says it went very well, largely due to the efforts of Bernard
"Podge" Willis.

12/12/60
K.T.Beasley and C.W.Ferri are accepted as playing members of the club.

12/12/60 club
writes asking to participate in the Surrey Senior Shield for this season.
Declined.

12/12/60 club
also writes to F.A. asking to become affiliated to them. Application rejected
in Oct 61.

12/12/60 BBC
confirm they are unable to include the Corinthian League results in their
broadcasts.

12/12/60 Club
charged £36.8.6 for clearing the long grass around the ground. Club asked for
a detailed breakdown.

Finally
reduced in Aug 61 to £25!!

17/12/60 Epsom
scored both goals on separate occasions in the second half when they had only
ten on the pitch.

24/12/60 Only
ten men for most of the second half as Keary suffered a shoulder injury.
Gordon Cairns scores for Worthing.

24/12/60
Double programme issued for Worthing and Eastbourne (H) 26/12/60. Numbered 11
and 12.

31/12/60 Ray
Ellis saves penalty v Eastbourne.

Jan 61 Five a
side competition run at Epsom Baths. Johnny Byrne and Arthur Rowe present
trophies.

Jan 61 Reg
Peck, dad of Les leaves Sutton.

Jan 61 Johnny
Bangs leaves Banstead for Kingstonian who need cover for injured Johnny
Whing. Scores three on debut.

Jan 61 Malcolm
Robbins and Reg Walker both playing in Sutton's first XI.

Also there are
Ray Watkins, Dave Leonard, Eddie Clack, Norman Dearlove and Dave Hermitage

Jan 61 Brian
Jobson still at Dorking

Jan 61 Johnny
Bangs joins Kingstonian from Leatherhead

Jan 61 Frank
Fondyke also at K's

7/1/61
Programme advises that the Tote has reached a "stalemate figure" of
around 900.

Club advises
that it has asked if it can enter the Surrey Senior Shield, but appears to
have been rejected.

9/1/61 Dennis
Wells has received full settlement of his insurance claim following injury.

9/1/61 Club
advised by Borough Council that an extension of two years was granted for
Club House and

refreshment
hut, but not for the covered standing accommodation, presumably at top end of
ground.

9/1/61 Club
fined £5.5s (5 guineas) + £1.14s costs for obstructing a linesman in the
course of his duty v Horsham 10/12/60.

Club told to
put a mention in programme for 2 weeks about the incident, because a
supporter impeded the linesman.

Warning first
appears in programme 13 on 7/1/61, and again in number 14 on 14/1/61..

Mick Simmonds
takes over as captain while MacDonald is suspended.

9/1/61 Surrey
County F.A. query whether the club's name change is in order!

9/1/61
Reported at Committee Meeting that Ken Brown was cautioned, but don't know
which game.

9/1/61 New
playing members accepted by club: Dave Farley, Derek Evans, Dave Spragg
(written as Sprague.)

Jan 61 Johnny
Bangs joins Kingstonian

Jan 61 Johnny
Berry cartilage damage. Will be out until March

Jan 61 Keith
Williams former Epsom, Sutton and Carshalton is now at Banstead

Jan 61 Derek
Evans (31) joins club after being out injured for over a year. Previously
with Hounslow for 5 years.

Previously
capped once by England at Amateur level, and had rep honours for FA, Middx,
Middx Wanderers (capt)

Civil Service,
Athenian League and Corinthian League.

Joins up with
Ken MacDonald who had moved from Hounslow in Oct 59.

Jan 61 Dave
Farley joins from Banstead.

14/1/61 Club
programme advises the deaths of former Secretary Ernest (Ernie) Fletcher and
Bill Mansey.

21/1/61
Programme refers to the vital but unrewarding job that Ray Chenery does as
Reserve manager.

28/1/61 Larry
Pritchard makes debut v Dorking. Paper calls him Les!

According to
Geoff Porter, he is still living locally at 7 Glenwood Road, Stoneleigh.

28/1/61 Tim
Higgins plays for Dorking v Epsom.

4/2/61 Farley
penalty save at Edgware.

Feb 61 Johnny
Weaving, Peter Keary and Ernie Watkins are all at Banstead

Feb 61 Roger
Wallbank at Croydon

Feb 61 future
Manager Tony Williams is at Corinthian Casuals.

6/2/61 Bill
Kennedy sacked by club. Derek Evans appointed as replacement

6/2/61
Supporters Club also donate £100.We had £27 in the bank but debts outstanding
of £357 4s 2d. Agreed to pay £42

outstanding to
Bill Kennedy and £50 ground rent.

Agreed to run
a fete during the summer to try and reduce debts.

6/2/61
J.Stevenson advises his resignation as a player.

6/2/61 Club
writes advising that they were not in favour of promotion/relegation from the
lower Delphian League

However, Club
wrote to higher Athenian League in favour of such a proposal!!

6/2/61 Ernie
Watkins wrote to club asking if his services were still required. Committee
referred him to Mr Evans.

Watkins left
for Banstead before next meeting on 6/3/61, ending 15 years service. Made
Banstead debut in March 61.

11/2/61 Hit
woodwork four times, but still hand league leaders Maidenhead their first
home league defeat of season.

25/2/61 Epsom
a shade fortunate to collect both points against Wokingham. W 1-0 with a Dave
Mollatt goal.

Feb 61 Peter
Wood (34) retires, yet in March he then leaves club for Kingstonian!

Feb 61 Ken
'Dickie' Bird joins from Kingstonian. He has completed National Service

March 61 Both
sides of the ground now have lighting. Training 7/3/61 saw them switched on
for the first time.

March 61
engaged ex manager Doug Whitehead to scout for club.

Previously
with Kingstonian and won Amateur Cup medal in 1933. Also a previous Scottish
Amateur International.

Mar 61 future
player Ted Stafford is at Bromley Reserves

4/3/61 No game
for first XI or Reserves.

6/3/61 club
written to by Surrey Combination asking if we wanted to put in an 'A' side.
Club were unable to do this.

6/3/61 Club
also unable to travel to Belgium for a tour. Club wrote to Belgian F.A.
accordingly.

6/3/61 Rent
not paid this month. Monthly rent was £50. Other bills had taken priority.

6/3/61 further to a request the ground is to be rented to
the Sutton & District League for either Saturday evening 22nd or 29th
April.

They will
choose 29th April.

6/3/61 Johnny
Weaving, Peter Keary and Ernie Watkins leave for Banstead Athletic.

6/3/61 Promotion and relegation between the Corinthian and
Delphian Leagues will not take place this season. Defeated by 10-6 at

Corinthian
League meeting.

March 61 Tommy
Millard, Johnny Weaving and Peter Keary join Banstead.

6/3/61 Peter
Wood leaves club for Kingstonian.

6/3/61 Tommy
Turner joins club as a playing member.

6/3/61 Peter Carpenter contacts the Council with reference
to removing the covered accommodation at the ground. Presume this is the

West Street
end. However council advise in April that it is sound and if a new roof is
fitted it will be fine.

March 61 Peter
Kendall joins club. Formerly with Eastbourne, Carshalton and Leatherhead.

March 61 Malcolm Robbins rejoins club from Sutton. Had
been at Epsom for 2 years originally. Ray Francis joins from Molesey.

11/3/61 Evans
injured - ligament trouble. 10 men for entire second half. Lost 5-0.

11/3/61
Chesham keeper Jim Morris "a very workmanlike performer"

Mar 61 Geoff
King joins from Hounslow.

25/3/61 Programme advises congratulations to Ray Ellis and
Peter Collett, both of whom were married on 18/3/61. Collett has

moved to Bucks
and leaves the club.

Also Tony
Wells is unable to play again this season for personal reasons, and Dick Mead
has not been very well recently.

Appeal is made
for the Tote, in its 55th week it appears to be contracting, not expanding.

Apr 61 Former
A teamer and future England international Johnny Byrne moves to Mitcham.

Apr 61 Ray
Colfar, now at Crystal Palace, puts in a transfer request.

1/4/61 Mayor of Epsom and Ewell Councillor. F.H.Knight
attends game and collection taken for King George V Jubilee Trust Fund.

Dagenham
collect all three points with an easy 6-1 win.

3/4/61 Easter
Monday but no fixture for Epsom.

8/4/61 No game
for Epsom.

10/4/61
Council advise that a new roof would be sufficient for the covered
accommodation to retain its licence.

10/4/61 Sutton & Cheam Charities Cups to be played for
at West Street on Friday 21st and 28th April for C and B sections but
the

club cannot offer a date for the A Section. Mr Harris to
be present to look after dressing rooms and to earn £1 for being there.

10/4/61 Mid
Surrey Football League request use of West Street for a Final but there are
no spare dates.

10/4/61 Bill Inkpen advises the financial position is
"very serious indeed". Pressing accounts required to be settled.
But we were

already overdrawn by £2.10s although he held a cheqe for
£8,8s and had £3.10s in cash currently. Gas bill settled by Supporters Club.

10/4/61 next
Committee Meeting is to incorporate a second meeting with the Supporters Club
afterwards on 1st May.

15/4/61 Bill
Hawkins injured after 10 minutes - Passenger.

16/4/61 future
player Roger Brunwin scores eleven goals in a match for his Sunday side.

Asked by
Sutton & Cheam Charities to participate in a friendly with Banstead. Club
agreed and offered May 6th.

29/4/61 Single
sheet programme issued by Erith & B.

1/5/61 No May
Committee meeting as not enough people present, despite a planned meeting
after with Supporters club.

May 61 Johnny
Bangs returned to Banstead from Kingstonian

May 61 Brian
Jenkins scored twice for Walton & H as they beat Tooting & M 2-1. 53
goals for the season.

May 61 Epsom
announce there will be two trial matches in June to avoid the poor starts of
recent years.

May 61
Vincent Blore ex-Villa, Derby and West Ham gk runs Ewell County Secondary
School for boys and have won their

league for the fifth straight year. He was credited with
discovering Johnny Byrne after he played for Effingham against his team.

Terry Self was
in the schoolboy side for the second straight year.

6/5/61 Cup and
plaques presented to the club after beating Banstead in Hospital Cup.

It turns out that the Hospital Cup was the very same
Sutton Hospital Cup that was originally played for in 1903 and won by Epsom

Town in 1924. It is solid silver and worth about £4,000 at
2011 and it is currently property of the Sutton & District League
who

inherited it
and use it to this day. I have pictures of it now.

5/6/61 Mr
Inkpen advised at Committee Meeting that the club had debts of £580 ish.

Another Scout
summer fete agreed for 3/6/61. Donation to club funds would follow.

Reserves:

Corinthian League Reserve division

Position

10th out of 16

Res Manager

Ray (LR) Chenery

NT

1st

Leatherhead

2-3

SIC

1st

Fisher Athletic

1-3

ICC

SF

Kingstonian

0-1

10/9/60 Alan Littlewood, new signing from Kingstonian
fractured his wrist early in the 7-0 loss at Maidenhead. Prog said 2-0
(wrong).

He would be in plaster for a month. Club agree to write to
Maidenhead to thank them for their co-operation. Suggested at Committee

Meeting
13/9/60 by Ray Chenery.

Also agreed at
meeting that the Reserves would get two shilliings and sixpence each to cover
meals on 17/9/60.

17/9/60 Ken
Brown scores 5 v Croydon (SIC)

24/9/60
Leatherhead (A) is p-p as the ground was not available at Fetcham Grove.

1/10/60 No
game for Reserves this day.

8/10/60 Epsom
gave gate receipts after expenses of 38s 4d to Frinton Rovers. Game was
switched to Epsom.

29/10/60 Game
at Longheath Rangers in SIC is postponed. Not clear why.

5/11/60 Longheath Rangers match is again postponed. This
time they cannot get a ground so the match is switched to West

Street and
will be played next week.

12/11/60
Longheath Rangers visit and are beaten 3-0. Game switched to West Street.
Drawn away.

26/11/60 Epsom defeat the Post Office Engineers 9-1 on
their old ground at Waddon, scene of many battles back in the thirties and

forties when the clubs were London League rivals. The
ground still exists in Plough Lane as a cricket pitch now, with no trace of
the

stand which
disappeared in the nineties. A new pavilion sits on the site of the old
stand.

26/12/60
Eastbourne (A) is postponed.

21/1/61 Epsom
bow out of SIC 3-1 at Fisher Athletic. Would have been away to Carshalton
Athletic or Redhill in next round.

28/1/61 Dave
Mollatt scores four goals in Epsom's 6-1 home win over Dorking.

4/2/61 Edgware
(H) is postponed.

25/2/61 Epsom
pinch a late equaliser in a 2-2 draw at Wembley.

4/3/61 No game
for first XI or Reserves.

18/3/61 Peter
Collett leaving club, as he is getting married and moving to Bucks.

18/3/61 Ray
Eliis also gets married this day.

18/3/61
D.Snowdon HT v Wembley in 4-1 home win.

March 61 Tony
Wells is unavailable for personal reasons and won't play for the rest of the
season.

March 61 Dave
Farley's brother Terry joins and plays for reserves. Former Leatherhead
Sutton and Banstead player.

25/3/61
Reference in programme to the reserves unbeaten run of two months since the
Fisher SIC loss on 21/1/61.

25/3/61 Lew
Tucker sent off at Letchworth. Unbeaten run ends 0-1 there.

15/4/61
D.Snowdon HT in 7-2 home win over Dorking. Larry Pritchard and Micky Williams
also score twice.

17/4/61 Jim
Punter scores twice in our 3-1 home win over Chesham United.

22/4/61 Match
at Eastbourne kicked off at 5.30pm after the Eastbourne first team played
Erith & Belvedere.

29/4/61 Res lose 6-0 at Wokingham. For some reason though
a Team photo was taken which shows Ray Chenery as Manager and

Micky Williams in the line up amongst others. Colin Bell
has identified Peter Hall one place to the right from Ken Brown as we look at
it.

Colin says he was an ex Sutton Olympics player, a good
aggressive forward who scored a lot of goals. However he was a weekend

player who
would turn up with kit and play. Did not like training on Tuesday or Thursday
so he left .

2/5/61 Surrey Intermediate Charity Cup Semi Final played
at West Street as there were building works going on at Kingstonian's

Richmond Road
ground, where the tie was originally drawn to be played. K.O. 6.45

4/5/61 game abandoned v Erith & Belvedere due to heavy
rain after 48 minutes with Epsom leading 3-2. Game never completed.

Friendly
Matches

No programme produced.

06/05/1961

Banstead Ath

Sutton Hospitals Charity Cup

7-1

Mollatt (3), King (3), Dearlove

Squad: Barry,
Willis, Simmonds, Leedham, Robbins, Bird, King, Mead, Dearlove (guesting),
MacDonald, Hawkins