Both teams are shown this time for the 1948 Bury Cup Final; with Fabrication (Fab) Plant versus the 36 Inch Mill at Carlin How Football Ground. The Fab Plant won (they often did!).The teams were:
Back row: Sailor Southwick, M. Dixon, C. Danby, L. Hudson, ??, J. Legg, ??, ??, ??, ??, ??, Bob Goldby, Mike Conway, Nish Dye, ??, Alfred (Alf) Cook.
Front row: N. Hampton, Arthur Preston, P. Bentley, ??, C. Humble, George Last, ??, Mick Smith, ??, Dick Smithies, ??.
Neil Thaler asks: “I see from the photograph of the Bury Cup in 1948 there is a player called Sailor Southwick. He used to be a Whitby Town player before and after WWII. Does anyone have any information on him at all ?”
A big challenge this time – who are the missing players? Also can anybody assist Neil Thaler?
Image and information courtesy of Colin Hart; thanks to Colin Hart, Frank Graham, Graham Cook and Colin Cook for updates on names.
I’ve enjoyed finding this archive. If Neil Thaler happens accross the page, ‘Sailor’ Southwick was my grandad Fred…I have his medal from the 1936-37 North Riding Cup Final, I was looking for the team he was playing for when I found this page! He married Eliza (maiden name not remembered, sorry!) and lived his life in Loftus. He was offered terms to go and play for Aston Villa in his youth but Nan was having none of moving that far away from home! He was by all accounts a very good cricketer too. Eliza and Fred had 1 daughter and lived at Springhead Terrace in Loftus for all I can remember. Fred stayed sprightly and active into his 70’s until he suffered a stroke 1995(ish) following a fall from a ladder/stairs.