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Liverpool’s forgotten team

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Groucho said:
For all those who love a bit of slightly Everton related local history, the link in this tweet is a good read

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Interesting piece.
I wonder if anybody will track down all the football fields sold off for housing in the last 30-40yrs...mainly, but not exclusively, by the Council.
 
Groucho said:
For all those who love a bit of slightly Everton related local history, the link in this tweet is a good read

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Interesting.

I'm just wondering why getting the exact placement of the ground is so important.

The club was short-lived, probably due to it setting up on ethnic lines by rich Scotsmen / second generation Scotsmen in an area of the city where working class Scots who could have provided the base of their support would have been thin on the ground.

If they'd set up in the Kirkdale-Bootle area they may have gotten more joy, as there was an enclave there of Scots workers involved in rail yard work in the late nineteenth century.
 
davek said:
Interesting.

I'm just wondering why getting the exact placement of the ground is so important.

The club was short-lived, probably due to it setting up on ethnic lines by rich Scotsmen / second generation Scotsmen in an area of the city where working class Scots who could have provided the base of their support would have been thin on the ground.

If they'd set up in the Kirkdale-Bootle area they may have gotten more joy, as there was an enclave there of Scots workers involved in rail yard work in the late nineteenth century.
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Bootle's old ground was in Hawthorn Rd, not far away.
 
davek said:
Interesting.

I'm just wondering why getting the exact placement of the ground is so important.

The club was short-lived, probably due to it setting up on ethnic lines by rich Scotsmen / second generation Scotsmen in an area of the city where working class Scots who could have provided the base of their support would have been thin on the ground.

If they'd set up in the Kirkdale-Bootle area they may have gotten more joy, as there was an enclave there of Scots workers involved in rail yard work in the late nineteenth century.
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Are you sure it not Norwegian land lol

A good article - they were a nothing side in that era - Bootle FC was our Derby ......
 

degsy said:
Interesting piece.
I wonder if anybody will track down all the football fields sold off for housing in the last 30-40yrs...mainly, but not exclusively, by the Council.
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It was probably built on as you point out - The Botanic arms pub in Wavertree was named after the councils botanic garden sitated at the end of that road by the Liverpool council Nursery bombed down in the 2nd world war, & moved to Calderstones park .... so that area must have been prime Building land .....
 

davek said:
Interesting.

I'm just wondering why getting the exact placement of the ground is so important.

The club was short-lived, probably due to it setting up on ethnic lines by rich Scotsmen / second generation Scotsmen in an area of the city where working class Scots who could have provided the base of their support would have been thin on the ground.

If they'd set up in the Kirkdale-Bootle area they may have gotten more joy, as there was an enclave there of Scots workers involved in rail yard work in the late nineteenth century.
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I think it was just out of pure interest mate
 

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