History – Page 20 – Everton FC Heritage Society

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1878-1889, 1890-1899, Articles, History, Members Work, Players, Tony Onslow

A Christmas Tale from Liverpool

The retail stores of Liverpool had filled their windows with Christmas gifts to remind their potential customers that the festive season of 1888 was near, when a twenty years old Scotsman arrived at Tithebarn Railway Station to be greeted by the representatives of Everton Football Club. The weary traveller was John William Angus and he had been spotted while playing football in Glasgow, by a talent scout who dispatched him down to Liverpool, where he was to spend a trial period at Anfield. The Scot would have then been taken by the club conveyance, to meet the lady with whom…

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1890-1899, Articles, History, Members Work, Tony Onslow

“Our Tam” McInnes, an Everton First

[NB. This article first appeared in the run-up to the Merseyside derby April 2016] When the football clubs of Everton and Liverpool run out to meet each other in the forthcoming Merseyside derby, it will be for the 194th time in the League. No other city in England can claim to have staged more local derby games at the top level of English football than Liverpool. The game will take place on the former home of Everton at Anfield before a capacity and fiercely partisan crowd. The atmosphere will be electric. Yet, when these two deadly rivals first…

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1878-1889, Articles, History, Members Work, Players, Tony Onslow

The Life of a Former Everton Captain

Nicholas John Ross, the Victorian version of the present-day soccer superstar, was a man who captained both Preston North End and Everton. He was the most feared defender of his generation and was described by the leading Victorian sports journalist, J A H Catton, as being "the most brilliant back of his day, if not of all time. The best I ever saw." Nick Ross, born in Edinburgh on 6 December 1862, was the second child of stonemason Thomas Ross and his wife Anne who was a shopkeeper. The 1871 census revealed that the Ross family were living at…

Everton’s ‘Hall of Fame’ Events through the Decades

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2000-2009, Events, History, Members Work, Rob Sawyer

Everton’s ‘Hall of Fame’ Events through the Decades

Friday, 10 March, 2017 sees the staging of a Gwladys Street’s Hall of Fame event after an eight year hiatus. At The Hilton Hotel John Bailey, Pat Van Den Hauwe, Nigel Martyn, Ian Snodin and Kevin Campbell will join the 120-plus previous inductees in the pantheon of Blues greats. The concept of an independent Everton Hall of Fame was the brainchild of Dr David France, the uber Toffees fanatic, who was inspired by the veneration afforded ex-baseball players in the USA. It was the first of its kind in the United Kingdom. In 1998, a panel of ex-players (including Brian…

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1878-1889, Articles, History, Members Work, Players, Tony Onslow

Joseph Davies, the Welsh International from Shropshire

The graveyard photo shows the last resting place of Joseph Davies, who played for Everton during the season that they became founder members of the Football League. He was born on 27 June 1869, at St Martins in North West Shropshire and baptised at Preesgwyn Methodist Chapel. His parents, also born in St Martins, were Harriet and Stephen Davies, the latter a blacksmith at the local coal mine. The 1881 census shows the family as living in Chirk Bank Row in Weston Rhyn, where Joseph, along with his two brothers were still at school. On leaving education behind, he began…

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History, Members Work, Tony Onslow

On Tour in London with Everton

[This article was written for the 21 May 2017 Premiership fixture against Arsenal at Goodison Park] This week's clash with Arsenal, the 195th in total, will in no way resemble the occasion when the two sides first met 125 years ago (1892), in what is today The Royal Borough of Greenwich. It was the first time that the Anfield club had visited the capital, and their understrength party, which consisted of fifteen players, left Liverpool without their leading goal scorer Fred Geary, who was suddenly recalled to Nottingham because of a family bereavement. Club captain Andrew Hannah, along with Alec…

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1878-1889, Articles, History, Members Work, Tony Onslow

With Everton at Great Lever

There has long been some confusion concerning the outcome of the first competitive game played by Everton, that was won eventually by their opponents Great Lever. Early local historians state that Everton drew the tie 1-1 and then were decisively beaten in the replay by eight goals to one on Stanley Park. However, the record books of the Lancashire FA, held in Leyland, prove that Great Lever did indeed venture into next round of the competition, but the replay, which was rather acrimonious, took place in their home town of Bolton. The parishioners of St Bartholomew’s church had formed a…

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1910-1919, Articles, History, Members Work, Players, Tony Onslow

The Oxford Blues of Everton Football Club

The young football fan who today watches the highly paid Premier League stars of the modern era will find it difficult to visualise the generation of footballers who, long ago, earned a good living outside of the game and played football without reward because they loved to do so. Confined mostly to the south of England, many of them had first become acquainted with the association game at public school and then expanded their knowledge and skills at universities such as Oxford. Here, if noted by the selectors, they could be chosen to represent their university and be awarded an…

The Magnificent Footballing Andersons of Liverpool

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1878-1889, 1890-1899, Articles, History, Members Work, Mike Royden, Players, Tony Onslow

The Magnificent Footballing Andersons of Liverpool

When asked recently who was the first Liverpool-born man to play Association Football for England or score a goal in an FA Cup final, I was not able to answer the question. I then commenced to trawl through the FA records, and after much deliberation, appeared to have found the two most likely candidates to fill these roles. I was surprised to discover that they both belong to the same family. Rupert Darnley Anderson was born on 29 April 1859 and baptised the following June at St Paul's church in the Princes Park area of Liverpool. He was the fifth…

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1890-1899, Articles, History, Members Work, Tony Onslow

The Hope of Everton

In November 1890, the Everton executive dispatched their club captain, Andrew Hannah, back to his native Scotland and instructed him to find a player who would strengthen the side and help them clinch the Football League Championship. They informed him he could offer a signing on fee of £50, plus a weekly wage of three pounds and ten shillings a week. Hannah later returned with Hope Ramsey Robertson, who had agreed to join the Anfield club from Patrick Thistle. Robertson was born on 17 January 1868 in the Govan area of Glasgow, and was the third child born to assurance…