City Links - Croydon Common FC

There is a lot of fine Norwich City Football Club material on the internet and all free to be viewed. The problem is finding it in the first place. Sing Up The River End! will link you up with the best photographs and video clips on the world wide web ...............   



This post will interest those readers who are, like me, fascinated by the pioneers of Norwich City Football Club. If you click on  http://www.croydoncommon.com/ it will take you to a wonderful site dedicated to Croydon Common FC. They were members of the Southern League before World War One, crossing paths with us during the single seasons of 1909-1910 and 1914-15, when both clubs played in the First Division of the competition. I will do a 'Lost Opponents' feature on them in due course, but the reason I am so thrilled to have found this particular site is the fact that it contains some great old photographs of a number of players who played for Norwich as well as Croydon Common. The research has been nicely put together and is well worth a look around. I have added links below that will take you specifically to the items of Canaries/Citizens interest :

John Bowman was Norwich City's first professional manager.  Nat Whittaker is also an interesting character - in his position of secretary of the Southern League, he was a keen supporter of getting City admitted to that league in the first place.
http://www.zen139857.zen.co.uk/managers.htm

Pictures of Ernest Williamson and Sam Wolstenholme. Williamson was a goalkeeper and a great favourite at Norwich between 1923 and 1925. Wolstenholme had a short spell at Croydon before leaving their Nest and flying to ours !
http://www.zen139857.zen.co.uk/internationals.htm

Pictures of Sam Bacon and Percy Barnfather playing golf
http://www.zen139857.zen.co.uk/Golfing%20Robins.JPG

Billy Bushell played 154 non Football League games for Norwich, a figure beaten only by Jock Mackenzie
http://www.zen139857.zen.co.uk/Bushell1930.jpg

A fantastic photograph of Norwich Reserves in action in 1911
http://www.zen139857.zen.co.uk/action4.jpg

More on Sam Bacon
http://www.zen139857.zen.co.uk/fascinating-facts.htm

More on William Bushell  and Percy Barnfather
http://www.zen139857.zen.co.uk/favourite-players.htm



Here are the biographical links of ex Norwich players, including their full career statistics and additional information, some of which will be new to City supporters

William Jex
http://www.zen139857.zen.co.uk/JEX_William.pdf

Harold Levi
http://www.zen139857.zen.co.uk/LEVI_Harold.pdf

Reginald Levi
http://www.zen139857.zen.co.uk/LEVI_Reginald_Samual.pdf

John Bowman
http://www.zen139857.zen.co.uk/BOWMAN_John_William.pdf

Walter Rayner
http://www.zen139857.zen.co.uk/RAYNER_Walter_Jesse.pdf

William Silor
http://www.zen139857.zen.co.uk/SILOR_William.pdf

Sam Wolstenholme
http://www.zen139857.zen.co.uk/WOLSTENHOLME_Samuel.pdf
For more information on Sam from Sing Up The River End! click on
http://canaryseventyninety.blogspot.com/2010/11/stars-of-past-sam-wolstenholme.html

Ernest Williamson
http://www.zen139857.zen.co.uk/WILLIAMSON_Ernest_Clarke.pdf

George Thompson
http://www.zen139857.zen.co.uk/THOMPSON_George_Wilfred.pdf

Percy Barnfather
http://www.zen139857.zen.co.uk/BARNFATHER_Percy.pdf

Sam Bacon
http://www.zen139857.zen.co.uk/BACON_Samuel_Thomas.pdf

William Bushell
http://www.zen139857.zen.co.uk/BUSHELL_William.pdf

Congratulations to the producer of this fine site - Croydon Common may have had a short history, but what story there is to tell has been done so quite splendidly.
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