Thames Ironworks Gazette Bound Volumes 1895-1898 (West Ham):...

Hammer

£1,350

Thames Ironworks Gazette Bound Volumes 1895-1898 (West Ham): Two bound volumes containing the first 16 issues from 1895 to 1898 which is over 750 pages. Each issue covers subjects such as engineering and sports clubs. Incredibly in an 1895 issue it mentions the beginning of the football club which would become West Ham. Subsequent issues include fixtures and news about the club. A highlight for me personally was a sentence that read Mr Taylor who is working in the shipbuilding department has undertaken to get up a Football Club for next winter. Only a small proportion is devoted to football but this really is a piece of history. (2)