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Nostalgia: Team from the Green

Thursday, 4 March 2021 15:01

Here is another football team pictured in 1910, possibly on Pyegrove Fields.  

The caption on the back of the picture says Rose Green Football Club.

It's likely they played out of Rose Green Working Men's Club, which is still operating today (when the current lockdown allows) a couple of hundred metres from Pyegrove on Sheffield Road. 

Some of the players hardly look old enough to shave and could hardly be described as ‘working men’, although in those days they probably started work at 14 years old.

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