John Holdsworth & Co Ltd - SHAW LODGE MILLS A.F.C. - Winners - Shay Workshop Competition 1933
Harry Tordoff (Trainer), Albert Hind, Leslie Whitehead, Edwin 'Teddy' Cockroft, Johnny Farrar
Jimmy Hanson, Hubert Bottomley,
Ernest Bannister,
Wm (Bill) Wood,
Cyril Francis
Mr. Arthur Smith (Manager),
Squire Bannister,
Walter Meskimmon,
Harold Fawthrop,
Walter Townend,
Albert King,
Mr. Arthur Holdsworth-Groom (Director)
Miss Ivy Watts of Woodside Road, Boothtown stated in 1988 that her uncle George Watts took this photograph and developed and printed it himself in the cellar of his home at Mile Cross. [His signature is on the photo.]
According to Ivy, the trophy was one competed for on a regular basis known as the Halifax Workshops competition.
Teddy Cockroft went on to form the company of bakers, Cockroft Mann Ltd, of Fenton Road Bakery, King Cross, Halifax, HX1 3PP. (Company incorporated number 0546929)
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