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Bayliss Avenue, Football, groundhopping, Kent County League, Non League, Peabody Trust, Seven Acre and Sidcup, Seven Acre Sports, Southern Counties East League, Sporting Club Thamesmead, Thamesmead, Thamesmead Town
Monday 26th March 2018 ko 19.45
Southern Counties East League-Division One
SPORTING CLUB THAMESMEAD 3 (Weatherly 22 Patrick 61 Jeffery 71)
CROCKENHILL 1 (Brett 3)
Att 44
Entry £6
Programme – none, teamsheet FREE
Thamesmead is the kind of town that exists due to circumstance. It’s there to service the docks at Tilbury and other Thames dock towns, themselves only there because the Port of London docks were too small to service the huge new container ships so in the 1960’s the whole operation moved east and the town grew with the new industry. You could say that Docklands’ loss was Thamesmead’s gain, but the club in situ at Bayliss Avenue, Thamesmead isn’t the club that originally called the ground its home. The tale is a little tangled… Continue reading