November 2015 – Everton Heritage Society

Pop star's Great Uncle was a Toffees' star Reverend and the Makers THE lead singer of Reverend and the Makers has been reading up on his family links to one of Dixie Dean’s team-mates, thanks to the Everton Heritage Society. Jon McClure, lead singer of the Sheffield based band, revealed his links to the Toffees on Sky TV’s Saturday morning Soccer AM show. Jon is a passionate Sheffield Wednesday supporter, but revealed that he’d been told his Great Uncle, Joe McClure, used to play for Everton. Which is where the Heritage Society got involved. A group of passionate and learned Evertonians dedicated to celebrating and publicising all aspects of Everton’s history, they investigated McClure’s Goodison career. And after discovering that wing-half, McClure did make 34 appearances for the Blues, scoring one goal, they put together a 119-page book meticulously chronicling his four year spell at Goodison. Joe McClure The Heritage Society’s Richard Gillham, who produced the book using research from Billy Smith’s remarkable Blue Correspondent website and pictures from Society Secretary...

Everton Heritage Society to hold Remembrance Day Service at Park End plaque Service will commemorate Everton and CD Everton players who have fallen in wartime conflict David France with the memorial plaque to Everton's war heroes Evertonians and other football fans will gather at Goodison Park on Wednesday to pay respects to players who lost their lives during wartime conflict. A remembrance service, organised by the EFC Heritage Society, will be staged at the plaque based at the Park End that commemorates those who have fallen. The service, which begins at 10.50am, will be conducted by the Reverend Harry Ross, with all welcome to attend. Eight wreaths will be laid, one each for Everton Football Club, Dr and Mrs France (The Everton Collection), Everton Shareholder’s Association, Everton in the Community, Past Players’ Foundation, Everton Free School – who will have teachers and more than 40 students in attendance – the Ruleteros Society and the EFC Heritage Society. A piper will play “The Flower of the Forest” during...

Month: November 2015

Reverend and the Makers’ unlikely links to Everton legend Dixie Dean – David Prentice

Everton Heritage Society to hold Remembrance Day Service at Park End plaque 2015