SPORTS
From left, standing: Ed Porter, Brian Doe; kneeling: Les Abbotts, Peter Lines; sitting: Gwilym Pryce, Robin Couling, Trevor Davis. Perhaps six-a-side football? Taken at Star Meadow (at end of Charles Road) in 1948. These chaps called themselves "The Star Road Gang".
A Cholsey football team about 1926. Back row: 2nd Bill Calcutt(?); 5th Tom Higgs. Front row: 4th Bill Isles; 5th Alf Bosher. In the background are The Forty Cottages .
Cholsey United's full eleven at the Rec. in 1946. Left to right: (rear) Ralph Mills, George Hutt, Perce ”Johner” Howse, John Robinson, Les Polley, Dougie Gibbs, Les Wheeler, Bill Chapman, Sid Broad, Ken Pearce. Front Ron 'Flip' Fox, Fred ‘Chubber’ Howse, George Wyatt, Tommy Brown, Eddie Vidgen, Cyril ‘Squidger’ Wyatt.
A surprise picture of a girls' football team, clearly dated 1948. L to R rear are Daphne Baker, unknown, Mary Butler and Joan Davis. Front row are: (unknown), Mundy (?), Robinson and unknown.
The names seem to be from Cholsey, so perhaps this tug o' war team was marking its victories over Dorchester and Goring. The date, as can be seen, is 1926.
"Cholsey Cycle Speedway Team 1952" Rear: Roy Paxford; Pete Mundy; Michael Howse; Jim Saunders; Brian Green; Lionel Baldwin (Manager). Front: Leslie Brown; Colin Brewerton; Brian Dee. The track was at the rear of the former Chequers pub (now Memories of Bengal)."