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The Kingstanding Royals football team

1930s · Kingstanding

A football team in dark shirts and shorts, the back row standing with arms folded and five players crouching in front around a ball lettered “Kingstanding Royals”, flanked by men in overcoats and caps on a muddy field. — Photo: Lee Lewis. Reproduced with permission via Chris Hillcox, Voices of Kingstanding. · Select the picture to zoom and pan.

Kingstanding Royals football team

Chris Hillcox writes on Voices of Kingstanding: “Lee Lewis recently sent me this picture of the Kingstanding Royals football team. He thinks it dates from the 1930’s. Do you remember them? Where did they play and who did they beat?”

Notes

The 1930s date is Lee Lewis’s estimate.

Local memories

What people who knew this place have said about it, in their own words. These are memories, not checked facts.

“Seeing the photo of the Kingstanding Royals football Team I recognise my father William James Lewis (Jim) 2nd from the right sitting down, he was also captain of Castle Bromwich Aero Club football team”

— Terence James Lewis (Terry), 26 July 2021, Voices of Kingstanding

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