Title | Unidentified Football Team |
Date | c1910 |
Location | Yeadon |
Photo ID | C068 |
Comment | This Yeadon football team is unidentified, however, the man 4th from left in the back row is Fred Freeman, in the front row 1st left is Harry Freeman. The man standing on the right is Peter Freeman. |
Kirk Lane Football Team – c1950
A team calling themselves the Kirk Lane Killers, seen in Kirk Lane Park.
Names given as: Steve Schaffer, Syd Rogers, Terry Brown, Billy Slater, ? Padgett, Chex Chaffer, Roy Huntley, Max Armitage, Doug Pickles, Brian Bywell, Pete Armitage.
Banksfield United – 1969
This is a photo of Banksfield United, which was a short lived football team formed by a group of eleven-year-old boys living in the Banksfield/Shaw Lane estate part of Yeadon. The photo was taken on a rough patch of ground in between Banksfield Mill and Banksfield Avenue. Some of the children lived as far away as Rawdon though. The photo was taken in about 1969 by a photographer from the Wharfedale Observer and appeared in the paper.
Back row from the left: Ian Winterburn, Graham Dewhurst, unknown, David Pearson, Andrew Cockings, David Wood, Philp Midgley.
Front Row from left:. Ian Dewhurst, Lawrence Palmer, David Kitchen, John Kilburn, Stephen Claughton.
Donated by Dave Kitchen
Woolpack Wanderers – 1985
Football team posing outside the pub calling themselves the Woolpack Wanderers, they were formerly the Trades Hall team and the White Cross Wanderers. Ian Gillingham – (donor of the photo) is in the middle of the group wearing a yellow shirt, this is not part of the team football strip, next to him on the right wearing a tie is Peter Kelly.
Consolidated by Linda Plonka. 07 February 2022.
Last updated: 26 October 2023 – Photo ID: L18. 25 September 2023 – F751. 02 August 2023 – PhotoID: F506. 23 July 2023 – PhotoID: C068. 07 July 2023 – J749. 26 November 2022 – All images updated.