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Early 20th Century local football teams

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Josephine Chapman

knowlegable brummie
My Grandfather Leslie Chapman used to play for a local football team. He lived in Aston at the time. I wondered if anyone could possibly identify the team he played for from the attached photograph? I think this would be around the early 1920s. Les is second on the right at the back, in the football strip.
 

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I’ve another. This is my Great Uncle Fred’s team, possibly the same sort of time or even a few years earlier. Any ideas which team this is?
 

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Apart from saying the photographer is the ex-Villa man Albert Wilkes from West Bromwich (which you probably know), the background suggests a semi pro team with a following in the mid-hundreds and a proper ground.
 
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