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Flaming Pie
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Flaming Pie
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Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2019 9:25 pm
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Thanks Rocky, does seem to fit. Will have a look at that. Obviously a brave man during the war, but if he wasn’t a well known player, why did they produce a postcard for him? Perhaps amateur league players did have postcards produced for general sale. Something l don’t know much about. |
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Rocky
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Flaming Pie
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Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2019 9:38 pm
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Rocky, you’re good at this! Got to be him. I think he lived near Southend. So he was a footballer. You buy these things for a couple of quid, but half the fun is finding out who they are. Apparently the poor bloke voluntied for the Home Guard when World War Two broke out and died in some tragic accident. Thanks again. |
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Pete’s Picture Palace Forum Moderator
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Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2019 10:00 pm
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That's a lovely image and brilliant work by Rocky. I don't know how he finds all this stuff.
Palace were Southern League in our infancy in 1907 (Southend joined for 1908/9) and players had photos taken and turned into postcards. I've got many of them - however, none of them had a jumper or towel slung casually round their necks!
This is the Southend kit from 1906-14 per HFK and it doesn't look like the kit he's wearing but of course he may not have been a SUFC player at that time.
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Dick Roberts of Palace 1907/8 (signed from Middlesbro 1905)
So I'd guess it was fairly common for a player photo to be used as a postcard. |
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Flaming Pie
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Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2019 10:15 pm
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Thanks Pete, could be a training top or a photo of him in Leigh’s colours before he joined Southend? Didn’t know there was a Leigh district in the Southend area. Tend to think of Up North. He had a very unusual name. Good name for rock band! |
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Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2019 10:21 pm
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Leigh on Sea.
Basil Manley Overdrive? |
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paulobee
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The newspaper archives is your answer. You can find a lot about amateur footballers pre-1920 via these sources. As Rocky has found. |
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paulobee
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He is noted as an Insurance Clerk in the 1911 Census .
60 Boscombe Road Southend, Prittlewell, Essex
George Henley Manbey Head Married Male 56 1855 School Master Clergyman Established Church Guildford Surrey
Mary Jane Manbey Wife Married Female 59 1852 Private Means Kensington Middlesex
Cecilia Agnes Mary Manbey Daughter Single Female 28 1883 School Mistress Chiswick Middlesex
Percy Harper Manbey Son Single Male 26 1885 Clerk Chiswick Middlesex
Basil Kable Manbey Son Single Male 22 1889 Clerk Insurance Chiswick Middlesex
Mildred Amy Maud Manbey Daughter Single Female 18 1893 School Mistress Chiswick Middlesex |
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paulobee
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His London Gazette entry for the Military Cross.
BK Manbey - LG 17 September 1917 |
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paulobee
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He played for Leigh Rectory Yard FC, after turning put for Southend United reserves. |
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Flaming Pie
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Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2019 2:12 pm
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Paulobee, many thanks for the info. Basil looks the part, but it looks like he never hit the heights as a player. A Leigh Rectory Yard F C collector just made me a substantial offer for it, but I’m hanging on! |
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