Action from Hendon v Walthamstow Avenue in ‘Monthly Soccer’, September 1969

This page of pictures is taken from Volume 1 Issue 1 of ‘Monthly Soccer’ Magazine, September 1969.

Included in the photos are Avenue players John Mann and Geoff Parsons, and Hendon’s John Baker and Paul Collett.

If anyone knows the competition/ date/ result/ scorers please drop me a line.  Since the caption mentions Hendon’s 5th goal, presumably it’s that season’s Isthmian League game, in which Hendon ran out easy 7-0 winners.

The  ground pictured is Hendon’s recently defunct Claremont Road.

Hendon v Walthamstow Avenue action from 'Monthly Soccer' magazine, September 1969

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‘Soccer Star’ Magazine. April 22, 1961.

‘Soccer Star’ magazine (originally ‘Raich Carter’s Soccer Star’) was a national weekly magazine that ran from 20 September 1952 until 19 June 1970 (936 weekly issues in total).  Here they preview that day’s Amateur Cup final which The Avenue went on to win 2-1.

The front cover 'Soccer Star' Magazine. April 22 1961.

From page 3 of 'Soccer Star' Magazine. April 22 1961.

Avenue’s Pluckiest Side

From ‘Charles Buchan’s Football Monthly’, July 1961

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Standing - Keenes, Prince, Lewis, Grainger, McGuire, Edwards, Bambridge. Sitting - Groves, Saggers, Andrews, Harvey.

Walthamstow Avenue team photo from 1961

This team photo is taken from the 1961-62 ‘The Topical Times Football Book”‘ annual by D.C. Thomson.

Left to right - back row - Ron Bambridge, Stan Prince, Gary McGuire, Brian Edwards, Terry Keenes. Front row - Brian Harvey, Dave Andrews, Alan Minall, Don Saggers, Jim Lewis, Reg Groves.

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Stan Prince

Stanley Terence Prince. (Born Jan 24th 1927. Died Newham Oct 2005).

Captained Walthamstow Avenue in the 1961 F.A. Amateur Cup Final.

Stan wore the number 11 shirt in both of  Great Britain’s games in 1956 Olympic Football Tournament in Melbourne.  A 9-0 defeat of Thailand on 26th November in the First Round, and the 6-1 defeat by Bulgaria in the Quarter Finals on 30th November.

Fellow Avenue player Jim Lewis wore the number 9 shirt in both games, and scored a goal in each.

Stanley Prince leads out Walthamstow Avenue - Amateur cup semi-finalists 1959

Stanley Prince 1960

Walthamstow Avenue 2-1 Grays Athletic 12/01/1963

F.A. Amateur Cup 1st Round

Walthamstow Avenue goalkeeper G McGuire keeps warm by thrusting his hands down his tracksuit trousers © Copyright PA Prints 2008 - All Rights Reserved Dated: 12th January 1963 Author: S&G Credit: S&G and Barratts/PA Photos

The Times - Mon 14 Jan 1963 - Walthamstow Avenue v Grays Athletic Report

Walthamstow Avenue 2-1 West Auckland 22/04/1961

Walthamstow Avenue 2-1 West Auckland

 

Programme from The 1961 F.A. Amateur Cup Final