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20 Friday Feb 2015

Posted by laurencereade in B

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Bletchley Town, Buckingham, Buckingham Town, Ford Meadow, Manor Fields, MK Irish Centre, Old Northamptonians, ON Chenecks, Winslow Centre

Wednesday 18th February 2015 ko 19.45

United Counties League Division One

BUCKINGHAM TOWN 1 (Cleere 81)

NORTHAMPTON O.N. CHENECKS 4 (Underwood 47 75 Hancock 65 Ogden 88)

Att 50

Entry £4

Programme £1

Life hasn’t been easy to Buckingham Town, from their high point of Southern League membership and their 1985 FA Cup 1st round tie at home to Orient, the succeeding years have been characterised by a near constant struggle. They were relegated back into the United Counties League in 1998 knowing that the road down to Ford Meadow was too narrow for them to be promoted back. Continue reading →

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05 Saturday Nov 2011

Posted by laurencereade in B

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Buckingham, Football, goals, groundhopping, League, Meadwynter, Peterborough Northern Star, Staffieri, Town, United Counties, Winslow

Saturday 5th November 2011 ko 1.30pm

United Counties League Cup 1st Round

BUCKINGHAM TOWN 0

PETERBOROUGH NORTHERN STAR 3 (Staffieri 31 61 Medwynter 57)

Att 51 (h/c)

Entry & Programme £4

Tea 60p

In 1997 Buckingham Town were playing Southern League football at their home, Ford Meadow, in the heart of the pretty Buckinghamshire Town. I saw them a few years later, playing in the UCL Premier, and loved their old stand with railway sleepers as a terrace to bolt the seats to. When a subsituted player used the showers the spectators kept warm through the steam creeping through the gaps in the sleepers!

All of that has gone, Town were evicted during the summer by landlords hell-bent on building houses on land that routinely floods, and the club are now in UCL Division 1,  based at Continue reading →

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