Early 20th Century local football teams

[Josephine Chapman]

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.

 

[Josephine Chapman]

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?

 

[onetakemike]

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.