Yeovil at play
yeovil at play
Entertainment,
Sport, etc
in Yeovil's past
Don't forget to check out the extended gallery at the bottom of this page.
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Entertainments in brief
♦ This notice for all-comers to take part in prize matches of 'Sword and Dagger' appeared in the edition of 4 September 1780 of the Salisbury & Winchester Journal. It should be noted that four guineas at today's value is in the region of £500, but even so....
♦
"We
understand
that our
town is
about to
be
visited
by
Batty's
celebrated
Troop of
Equestrians;
fame
speaks
highly
both of
the
wonderful
feats of
the
Performers,
and also
of the
beauty
and
docility
of his
splendid
stud of
horses,
and we
have no
doubt
that it
will
prove a
high
treat to
the
inhabitants
of
Yeovil
and its
neighbourhood."
♦
"On
Saturday
next,
Hughes'
Royal
Mammoth
and
Grand
Equestrian
Establishment,
intend
paying
this
town a
visit.
Fame is
loud in
the
praise
of this
unrivalled
Company,
and
should
the
weather
be
favourable,
we may
anticipate
that we
shall be
visited
by a
large
concourse
of
persons
from the
adjacent
neighbourhood
to
witness
the
entree,
into our
Town, of
the most
imposing
cavalcade
ever
seen in
Yeovil."
gallery
One of the earliest known photographs of a football match at the Pen Mill Athletics Ground.
If the Swords and Daggers (see above) didn't get you, the lads of the Yeovil Rifle Club might.
1906 YMCA Stalwarts Football Club.
The Whitby's II skittle team, winners of the Liberal Club League and Cup three years running, pose for a celebratory photo around 1908.
The sack race - part of sports day at the County School in 1909.
Petter's Sports Day, 23 July 1910, showing the 440 yards flat final. The event was held at the Pen Mill Athletics Ground.
A colourised photograph of an unknown local football team of the 1911-12 season.
The Wesleyan Football Club (of the Vicarage Street Methodist church), 1912-13 season.
The Yeovil Labour Party Football Club, 1926-27 season.
A postcard, probably from the early 1930s, of the "Crowning of the Victor at the Olympian Games" and depicting members of the "St John's Church Boys' Gymnasium, Yeovil".
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