Harry Boyle Cup
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If you struggle with the origin of this cup - I don't know who Harry was - give a ring to the Football Museum, which still has offices at the Preston site even though the museum itself is in Manchester now. Speak to Peter Holme, researcher. Top man. Please post the result.
Can only think that the team was from your neck of the woods claytonx
Looking at the dates claytonx don't think I know many of those pictured I was only two when that was taken
Could the goalie Bryan Mercer be a typo for Bryon Mercer of the Accy furniture place. According to the www he died in 2008 on a cruise ship in Limassol, aged 75, which would make him born in 1933 so about the right age.
Susie, were did you get your information from
Another idea: Ask the Lancashire FA, which is based at Leyland.
Ask Accrington Library Local Studies if they have any cuttings or other notes on him.
Mr Howson, who sent the photo in, died about 2 yrs ago. His wife still lives in Willows Lane.
Ask Accrington Library Local Studies if they have any cuttings or other notes on him.
Mr Howson, who sent the photo in, died about 2 yrs ago. His wife still lives in Willows Lane.
Thanks I will, Dennis was my best man and I was visiting Eve just last Friday.
I googled Bryon Mercer Accrington and this came up. Notice the Accy Obs can't get the name right either - that should be a sacking offence! There's a good photo for comparison and it does say he went to Mount Pleasant and was a goalie. One down, ten to go!
Sorry didn't post this info earlier as I hadn't clicked on the google link which just mentioned his death.
http://menmedia.co.uk/accringtonobserver/life_and_style/announcements/s/1075696_byron_mercer
Byron Mercer
October 27, 2008
DIY and electrical goods shop owner Mr Bryon Mercer has died on an Ocean Village cruise in Limassol, Cyprus, at the age of 75.
Mr Mercer, of Spring Gardens, Sefton Farm, Clayton-le-Moors, began his career as an apprentice joiner with the Co-op. In 1966 he started his own joinery business, doing a lot of work for local authorities.
He later moved into DIY and electrical goods and had shops in Clayton-le-Moors, Accrington, Blackburn, Clitheroe and Great Harwood, which we ran with his son Paul. His business grew to include the sale of kitchens, bedrooms and bathrooms.
He was a member and one-time captain of Accrington Golf Club and also Clitheroe Golf Club. He loved travelling with his wife Lynda and going to the theatre, especially to watch his actress daughter Samantha.
More recently, he became a member of the Grange Bowling Club, Clayton-le-Moors.
He also had an interest in creative writing and had just finished his first full-length fictional novel entitled Frozen in Crime.
A great character who enjoyed life to the full, he was a Blackburn Rovers fan, having been a goalkeeper as a young man. He also used to box in Clayton-le-Moors.
Mr Mercer, who had lived in Clayton all his life, attended Mount Pleasant School in the town where he won the Victor Ludorum.
He leaves his wife, son and daughter.
He was due to be cremated at Accrington on Friday 24 October following a service conducted by Father Roger Parker.
Arrangements: Hyndburn Funeral Services.
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Here's another one, about the right age.
Frank Drinkwater | Accrington Observer - menmedia.co.uk
Frank Drinkwater
July 22, 2005
CRICKETER and former football referee Mr Frank Drinkwater has died in Queen's Park Hospital, Blackburn, aged 71.
Mr Drinkwater, of Hawksworth Road, Accrington, left school at 15 to work at Bracewells, going on to do National Service at the age of 18.
He then worked at Carborundum and Allspeeds before fulfilling a lifelong ambition to become a partner in his own business - Accrington Grinding Co - until he retired at 59 for health reasons.
A keen sportsman, he played his first game of cricket for Enfield at the age of 13 and continued with the club for 30 years.
He played for the first team, captained the second team for nine years and went on to coach the first and second teams and juniors.
During this time Enfield won the Worsley Cup in 1989 and 1991.
He also served as chairman of the selectors' committee and part-time groundsman. He was an active lifelong member of Enfield's social club, often acting as compere.
As well as his lifelong passion for cricket, he supported Accrington Stanley and Burnley football clubs.
In his younger days he played football for many local teams, later refereeing in the Accrington Combination and West Lancashire League.
His refereeing claim to fame was that he was a linesman at a Burnley v West Brom game in the early 1970s.
He also enjoyed betting on the horses and gardening, and spent several holidays in Ireland, which he grew to love.
Brother of the late Alan, he leaves his partner Christine, children Susan, Paula, Christine, Kath, Steven, Helen and Mark, brother Stan and 10 grandchildren.
A funeral service led by humanist minister Carole Truman was held at Accrington Crematorium yesterday.
Arrangements: Hyndburn Funeral Services.
Frank Drinkwater | Accrington Observer - menmedia.co.uk
Frank Drinkwater
July 22, 2005
CRICKETER and former football referee Mr Frank Drinkwater has died in Queen's Park Hospital, Blackburn, aged 71.
Mr Drinkwater, of Hawksworth Road, Accrington, left school at 15 to work at Bracewells, going on to do National Service at the age of 18.
He then worked at Carborundum and Allspeeds before fulfilling a lifelong ambition to become a partner in his own business - Accrington Grinding Co - until he retired at 59 for health reasons.
A keen sportsman, he played his first game of cricket for Enfield at the age of 13 and continued with the club for 30 years.
He played for the first team, captained the second team for nine years and went on to coach the first and second teams and juniors.
During this time Enfield won the Worsley Cup in 1989 and 1991.
He also served as chairman of the selectors' committee and part-time groundsman. He was an active lifelong member of Enfield's social club, often acting as compere.
As well as his lifelong passion for cricket, he supported Accrington Stanley and Burnley football clubs.
In his younger days he played football for many local teams, later refereeing in the Accrington Combination and West Lancashire League.
His refereeing claim to fame was that he was a linesman at a Burnley v West Brom game in the early 1970s.
He also enjoyed betting on the horses and gardening, and spent several holidays in Ireland, which he grew to love.
Brother of the late Alan, he leaves his partner Christine, children Susan, Paula, Christine, Kath, Steven, Helen and Mark, brother Stan and 10 grandchildren.
A funeral service led by humanist minister Carole Truman was held at Accrington Crematorium yesterday.
Arrangements: Hyndburn Funeral Services.
There was a Harry Abbott played cricket for Enfield 1953-58 The Home of CricketArchive
Also a Harry Abbott died 2010
Harry Abbott : Death - MEN Family Notices - MEN Media Network
HARRY ABBOTT A dearly loved Husband, Father and Grandfather, after a long illness, passed away suddenly on February 8 2010. Loved and missed by all who knew him. A private cremation service took place on Thursday February 18 at Accrington Crematorium. Donations in memory of Harry, if so desired, may be made to The Chemo Unit, Royal Blackburn Hospital c/o Hyndburn Funeral Services Queens Road, Accrington. All further enquiries Tel 01254 233133
Also a Harry Abbott died 2010
Harry Abbott : Death - MEN Family Notices - MEN Media Network
HARRY ABBOTT A dearly loved Husband, Father and Grandfather, after a long illness, passed away suddenly on February 8 2010. Loved and missed by all who knew him. A private cremation service took place on Thursday February 18 at Accrington Crematorium. Donations in memory of Harry, if so desired, may be made to The Chemo Unit, Royal Blackburn Hospital c/o Hyndburn Funeral Services Queens Road, Accrington. All further enquiries Tel 01254 233133
Finally found one who might still be alive. This is a comment on an obit of someone who was born in 1935. There appear to be two email addresses which might be useful.
http://menmedia.co.uk/accringtonobserver/life_and_style/announcements/s/1344965_jack_addison
roy [email protected] (09/10/2010 at 13:43)
I have known Jack from when we were both 12 years old, and when his family moved from Huncoat to Clayton le Moors.A few of us were playing cricket on some spare ground off Earl St he asked to join in and from that day we have been friends,in fact I regarded him as my best friend,We spent our teenage and early life together,and have remined friends all these years.I will miss our chats on sorting the worlds problems out,and remembering all those days from the past. Most of all I will miss him.
Roy Smethurst
[email protected]
http://menmedia.co.uk/accringtonobserver/life_and_style/announcements/s/1344965_jack_addison
roy [email protected] (09/10/2010 at 13:43)
I have known Jack from when we were both 12 years old, and when his family moved from Huncoat to Clayton le Moors.A few of us were playing cricket on some spare ground off Earl St he asked to join in and from that day we have been friends,in fact I regarded him as my best friend,We spent our teenage and early life together,and have remined friends all these years.I will miss our chats on sorting the worlds problems out,and remembering all those days from the past. Most of all I will miss him.
Roy Smethurst
[email protected]
Susie, you are getting closer and closer.
Lancashire Schools Football Association - History
The Nineteenth Century and Early Years of the Twentieth Century - Pioneers
Schools’ football was played in Liverpool and probably in other areas of the county in the seventies of this century. Definitive records, however, indicate that Aigburth National School won the senior football competition in 1893. The Harry Boyle Cup, presented by a local business- man in 1897 for Blackburn schools, remains probably the oldest trophy still contested for to this day. The first semi-finals and final were played at Ewood Park. The Alderman Ord Cup, presented to Preston SFA in 1906, is the closest contestant within the present Lancashire and since that date is traditionally played at Deepdale. Both competitions are keenly contested to this day with Blackburn and Preston records showing a fine pedigree of winners.
Lancashire Schools Football Association - History
Poassibly this was the businessman who donated the cup?
Harry Boyle
© BwD Terms & Conditions
Creator: Blackburn Weekly Telegraph Date: Location: Blackburn Town Centre,Blackburn Document Type:Newspaper Description: Advertisement for Harry Boyle Ltd. Text reads- For the holidays. Smart, stylish and durable. Ready for wear. 21/6 27/6 Trousers, ready for wear, 5/11 Harry Boyle Ltd. 78 to 84, King Street (Just under the clock). Tel 106yClassification No:Identifier:Original Size: Length: 120mm Height: 110mmYou may freely reproduce this content provided you do not do so in the course of a business and state clearly that the content was provided by BwD for use in the Cotton Town digitisation project.
Salford
© LET Terms & Conditions Creator: LETDate: Location: Salford,Grid Ref:SD684281Document Type:Monotone Photographic PrintDescription: Salford, Blackburn, c.1910. The shop in the middle with the old-fashioned window is that of furniture dealer Harry Boyle who, at the time, also had premises in King Street. Next door, to the right, with a crowd of youngsters in front of Leeming and Yates saddlers' and to the left of handcart on the pavement is the Ye Olde White Bull Hotel, which was established in 1750. It was pulled down at the end of 1959 to make way for a modern pub of the same name, but known since 1979 as the Brewer's Arms. The line-up outside Boyle's shop and the crowd being carefully kept on either side of it suggests the photographer was there for an 'occasion' - which may have been the forthcoming passing of the premises which were demolished afterwards, giving Calendar Street access to Salford.Classification No:C62Salford Identifier:Original Size: Length: 132mm Height: 175mmYou may freely reproduce this content provided you do not do so in the course of a business and state clearly that the content was provided by LET for use in the Cotton Town digitisation project.
The Nineteenth Century and Early Years of the Twentieth Century - Pioneers
Schools’ football was played in Liverpool and probably in other areas of the county in the seventies of this century. Definitive records, however, indicate that Aigburth National School won the senior football competition in 1893. The Harry Boyle Cup, presented by a local business- man in 1897 for Blackburn schools, remains probably the oldest trophy still contested for to this day. The first semi-finals and final were played at Ewood Park. The Alderman Ord Cup, presented to Preston SFA in 1906, is the closest contestant within the present Lancashire and since that date is traditionally played at Deepdale. Both competitions are keenly contested to this day with Blackburn and Preston records showing a fine pedigree of winners.
Lancashire Schools Football Association - History
Poassibly this was the businessman who donated the cup?
Harry Boyle
Creator: Blackburn Weekly Telegraph Date: Location: Blackburn Town Centre,Blackburn Document Type:Newspaper Description: Advertisement for Harry Boyle Ltd. Text reads- For the holidays. Smart, stylish and durable. Ready for wear. 21/6 27/6 Trousers, ready for wear, 5/11 Harry Boyle Ltd. 78 to 84, King Street (Just under the clock). Tel 106yClassification No:Identifier:Original Size: Length: 120mm Height: 110mmYou may freely reproduce this content provided you do not do so in the course of a business and state clearly that the content was provided by BwD for use in the Cotton Town digitisation project.
Salford
Creator: LETDate: Location: Salford,Grid Ref:SD684281Document Type:Monotone Photographic PrintDescription: Salford, Blackburn, c.1910. The shop in the middle with the old-fashioned window is that of furniture dealer Harry Boyle who, at the time, also had premises in King Street. Next door, to the right, with a crowd of youngsters in front of Leeming and Yates saddlers' and to the left of handcart on the pavement is the Ye Olde White Bull Hotel, which was established in 1750. It was pulled down at the end of 1959 to make way for a modern pub of the same name, but known since 1979 as the Brewer's Arms. The line-up outside Boyle's shop and the crowd being carefully kept on either side of it suggests the photographer was there for an 'occasion' - which may have been the forthcoming passing of the premises which were demolished afterwards, giving Calendar Street access to Salford.Classification No:C62Salford Identifier:Original Size: Length: 132mm Height: 175mmYou may freely reproduce this content provided you do not do so in the course of a business and state clearly that the content was provided by LET for use in the Cotton Town digitisation project.
I just gathered from your post to Eric on another thread that you are the Roy Smethurst in the photo. Bit annoyed about that, you might have told me or anyone else before we go off looking for these people. But then you do have a habit of starting threads with just a sentence and not providing any other information or opinions.
Anyway good luck with finding out more about the cup. It's funny that there's no more info on the net if it is still being played for today.
Anyway good luck with finding out more about the cup. It's funny that there's no more info on the net if it is still being played for today.