Sorry Linda, I have heard of the team but don”t have any detailed information. If they played after WW2 then this would be a period I haven”t got round to researching yet. Patrick
Patrick Brennan – in your research have you come across Portrack Shamrock”s Ladies Team? I was told as a child that my Grandfather Thomas Foy was a trainer for them!
I have not come across Thornaby Ladies in my research, but my website has a page on women”s football on Teesside in the 1920″s and 1930″s. I can”t post the link here, but if you search for Donmouth on Google and go to the page on Women”s Football you”ll find it listed under Darlington Quaker Ladies. Patrick Brennan
This Alice Oyston is my grandmother.I have never seen this photo before. What is your connection to it. I will be showing this to my father Maurice Edward Oyston to find out more.
Bill Davies – what a fantastic photo! According to the website of The Football Association – December 1921: The Football Association banned women from playing on Football League grounds… the main reason was that: “Complaints have been made as to football being played by women, the council feel impelled to express their strong opinion that the game of football is quite unsuitable for females and ought not to be encouraged.” It was 50 years before the FA lifted that ban in 1971. Maybe if they had acted sooner we might have done better in the recent Womens World Cup!
My friend here in Canada has asked me to send this photo. His mother is on the far left, married name Alice Oyston (nee Wetherell). Does anybody know anything of this team, who the players are and for whom they played?
Thornaby Ladies Football Team 1933.
I remember watching a womens football match at Cleveland Park in the early fifties, which was played in front of a big crowd.
Sorry Linda, I have heard of the team but don”t have any detailed information. If they played after WW2 then this would be a period I haven”t got round to researching yet. Patrick
Patrick Brennan – in your research have you come across Portrack Shamrock”s Ladies Team? I was told as a child that my Grandfather Thomas Foy was a trainer for them!
I have not come across Thornaby Ladies in my research, but my website has a page on women”s football on Teesside in the 1920″s and 1930″s. I can”t post the link here, but if you search for Donmouth on Google and go to the page on Women”s Football you”ll find it listed under Darlington Quaker Ladies. Patrick Brennan
Hi Malcolm, this photo was given to me by my friend Don Oyston here in Brantford to post. I will show him the replies Bill Davies
This Alice Oyston is my grandmother.I have never seen this photo before. What is your connection to it. I will be showing this to my father Maurice Edward Oyston to find out more.
Was womens football played with smaller teams in the 1930s as there are only 9 players on this photo?
Bill Davies – what a fantastic photo! According to the website of The Football Association – December 1921: The Football Association banned women from playing on Football League grounds… the main reason was that: “Complaints have been made as to football being played by women, the council feel impelled to express their strong opinion that the game of football is quite unsuitable for females and ought not to be encouraged.” It was 50 years before the FA lifted that ban in 1971. Maybe if they had acted sooner we might have done better in the recent Womens World Cup!
My friend here in Canada has asked me to send this photo. His mother is on the far left, married name Alice Oyston (nee Wetherell). Does anybody know anything of this team, who the players are and for whom they played?