Rugby Clubs in Forest of Dean 1890 to 1908 (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Thursday, November 17, 2011, 23:50 (4758 days ago) @ peteressex

Thanks to this great forum I've tonight discovered the "Forest Review" newspapers are readable online including older copies, great news for an Exile such as me.
Reading recent issues this evening I see they regularly have "old photograph" features, I would suggest contacting the named contributors of those photos might be worthwhile.

Perhaps even more relevant, the 4th November 2011 issue included an 1895 photo of Yorkley RFC.
Sadly no Blewitts in the lineup, although Yorkley did play in a dark strip, maybe blue ?. They are also all wearings their caps, which I think was quite normal in those days for formal occasions ?. Anyhow, the article says this photo is "part of a collection of old sports team photos recently presented to the Gage Library at the Dean Heritage Centre".

This link should take you to the relevant issue, then click thro to page 17.
http://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/launch.aspx?referral=other&pnum=&re...

Following the Centre's terrible fire and loss of archives it's great to hear such news.
Just in case you've not already tried this route I suggest contacting the centre will hopefully be worthwhile.
http://deanheritagecentre.com/gage_library.html

Hope this helps and good luck.

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