Published: Thursday, 24th April, 2008 08:00
Fancy that to wear at a match
By David Cliffe
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ANOTHER postcard (above) of people in fancy dress this week, but fancy dress with a difference.
The sign over the wheel of the vehicle reads: “Today at 3.15. Grand costume (fancy) football match.”
The photographer is not named on the card, and it was never posted, so there are no stamps or postmarks to help with the date, but since it shows her father-in-law, the lady who lent the card knows that it must date from the 1920s, and come from the Reading area.
So it’s a bit too old now for anyone to remember the event, but I’m hoping that someone will recognise the setting.
The building to the left looks very much like a chapel, with its high and steeply pitched roof, and the projection on the end where the communion table would have stood.
The telegraph pole with its many branches suggests that we are near a main road. Please get in touch if you recognise it.
This picture is very amusing if you find it on the Library’s website, and magnify it a bit – www.readinglibraries.org.uk, and then go to the catalogue and search on “football unidentified.”
There you should also be able to see several other photographs of football teams from the past which I can’t identify.
Several pierrot costumes are in evidence, one of the wearers sporting a pointed hat.
There is a couple of clergymen, and a “swell” in a top hat and white tie.
The men who actually look as though they are going to play football wear aprons over their football kit.
Quite what we are to make of the character who sits in front of the wheel I don’t know – he looks like nothing so much as a sheep!
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