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Radstock Town, Southfields, Stiff Little Fingers, Town, Welton Rovers, Western League, William Waldegrave, Wincanton
Tuesday 4th November 2014 ko 19.30
Western League Division One
RADSTOCK TOWN 4 (Carter 6 Harvey 26 Hardiman 89 Metcalf 90)
WINCANTON TOWN 2 (Jordan 68 Chant 90)
Att 61
Entry £6
Programme £1
Perhaps its just my ignorance, but until I visited nearby Welton Rovers, you can see their lights as you travel south from Bath, I didn’t associate Somerset with coal mining. That was genuinely my error, the pits were started in the late 18th century and at one point were owned by the Waldegrave family, you may remember MP William Waldegrave, but the last pit finally closed in 1973. The clues are still there, be it the “Miners” nickname of the football club, or the rows of terraces miners’ cottagers as you climb the hill towards the Southfields Recreation Ground. Continue reading