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    Football Ground Aston Cross

    No- it was a private ground rented by Aston Victoria and Aston Shakespeare in the mid-late 1880s. It was built by Edwin Samson for his employees at the Midland Vinegar Company adjacent, although it had been in general sports use since the 1860s. Pugilism, pidgeon shooting (!) and other events...
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    Grandpa Jack

    Aston Unity (as amateurs) often swapped or lent or borrowed players with Aston Villa in the 1880s.
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    Early 20th Century local football teams

    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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    Park Mills

    Park Mills FC lost the final of the Birmingham Junior Cup 3-4 in April 1893 to Lozells FC, played on the Aston Lower grounds, watched by 4,000 spectators. Bham Daily Post 17/4/1893. Can I add your image to my collection of Victorian football clubs?
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    Birmingham Football 1900's Edward Richards

    A James Richards and a H.M. Richards played for Mitchell St. Georges in the 1880s at the Cape Hill ground, Smethwick. They were professional and briefly played in the Second Division before folding in 1892.
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    Birmingham Amateur Football Teams

    A long shot since this club folded about 1937, but does anyone have any info on Aston Victoria FC, founded in 1880, and became Birmingham's top amateur/ semi-pro team, winning the first two Birmingham Junior Cups around 1890. They fell down the ladder from heady days of sharing the still...
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    Aston Lower Grounds

    The reason why Aston Villa did not take up the chance to move onto the ALG sports meadow was because it had been demolished and sold for three streets of houses some nine years previously in September 1888, ironically a week before Aston Villa's first Football League match was played at...
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    Aston Lower Grounds

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    Aston Cross football ground

    now discovered football ground location ! Still grateful for anything on Aston Shakespeare,Victoria,or Excelsior (own ground on present day Arden Rd). Wondering where the Shakespeare tag came from.....maybe the Shakespeare collection held at Aston Hall after it was too voluminous for the old...
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    Aston Cross football ground

    Im researching early Aston football teams and would like to pick up on a 2006 thread when the location of this football ground was described as being between the Bartons Arms (my local) and the Theatre Royal. Can anyone tell me exactly where it was, and whats there today. Would it be the police...
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