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Adrian Whitmore, Central Midlands League, Franz Xaver Graf von Werra, Guy Wilding, Highfield Road, home-made club mugs, John Balfour, Leicestershire Senior League Division One, midlands regional alliance, Newhall United, Penalty, Richard Jeffery, Steve Cook, Swanwick Pentrich Road, The one that got away
Saturday 18th August 2012 ko 3.00pm
Midlands Regional Alliance Premier Division
SWANWICK PENTRICH ROAD 5 (Wilding 62 71 A Whitmore 64 86 Jeffery 78) Jeffery missed penalty 45
NEWHALL UNITED 1 (Balfour 29p)
Att 13 (h/c)
Entry FREE
No Programme
Tea in a mug 70p
I have to say that this charming little club does have a rather particular name. Consider if you will the small Derbyshire village of Swanwick. It’s a former pit village near Alfreton, and is best known for the German flying ace Franz Xaver Graf von Werra, who escaped from the Swanwick Hayes POW camp in December 1940. He reached RAF Hucknall and was recaptured after trying to steal an aircraft in the guise of a Dutch airman. He finally did escape later in the war, and his exploits are immortalised in the flim “The one that got away.”
But let’s look at that name again, to the best of my knowledge there’s no other team in Swanwick so why have a name that’s so specific? Continue reading