Clubs, Teams, Village Organizations and Institutions

School children dancing on Leigh Green 1921
School children dancing on Leigh Green 1921

 

Leigh School Group 3 - year not known, but possibly pre-World War One. (Given to Society by Sandra Nicholls)
Leigh School Group 3 – year not known, but possibly pre-World War One. (Given to Society by Sandra Nicholls)

 

 

Leigh School Music Class July 1910. Older gentleman could possibly be Mr Boby who would have been about 57 at the time. (Given to the Society by Sandra Nicholls)
Leigh School Music Class July 1910. Older gentleman could possibly be Mr Boby who would have been about 57 at the time. (Given to the Society by Sandra Nicholls)

 

 

Powder Mills - Cricket Club
Powder Mills – Cricket Club
Powder Mills Rifle Club, winners of the KCRA Kilara Cup: the Tonbridge and District Miniature Cup; and the Robinson Challenge Cup. Noel Jempson, publican of The Plough, is bottom row, second from left - see arrow. Alfred Batchelor is top row fourth from left, when looking straight at the picture.
Powder Mills Rifle Club, winners of the KCRA Kilara Cup: the Tonbridge and District Miniature Cup; and the Robinson Challenge Cup. Noel Jempson, publican of The Plough, is bottom row, second from left – see arrow.
Alfred Batchelor is top row fourth from left, when looking straight at the picture.
Powder Mills football club
Powder Mills football club
Golden Years Group sent to the Society by Jennie James, descendant of Albert Charles Humphrey

Leigh Football Club-ca 1932

Leigh School Football Team 1933/34 – given to the Historical Society by Margaret Pyle, grand-daughter of Fred and Emily Fitzjohn. Jim Fitzjohn named in the picture would have been her uncle.
LEIGH SCHOOL Seniors 1926
Names from left-right:
Back: Sid Hitchcock; Jerry Robinson; Harold Hounsome; Ted Squires; Fred Faircloth; Fred Fitzjohn- (goalkeeper in white); Bert Stubbings; Nim Faircloth; Referee; Harry Bowles
Centre: George Jempson; Fred Parker; Tom Parker; Ratty Brooker; Frank Faircloth
Front: Harold Young; Noel Jempson (Jemphson); Jack Stolten; George Faircloth
late 1950s/early 1960s: Golden Years Club outing at Wannock Gardens, Polegate, Sussex
Back row, left to right: C or T Lee; unknown; unknown; Frederick Fitzjohn (foreman); Mr Hills (under manager)
Front row, left to right: Charlie Hayter (tester); Mr Evelyn (manager); unknown; unknown
Note: on the photo, as is usual in this period, the working men are given christian names and managers are called ‘Mr’.
John Evelyn was the manager of the whole gunpowder mills from 1920 until 1934 when the works were moved by ICI to Scotland. John Evelyn and a few of the other workers moved to Scotland.
School choral group, 1937. The Music Festival, Corn Exchange, Tunbridge Wells.
Leigh Cricket Club – Presentation Ball presented to Isaac Ingram for best average.
Leigh Cricket Club, Isaac Ingram, 1938
Leigh Cricket Club, about 1899
Leigh Primary School, 1935/36
Back row: C. Dyson H. Lucas W. Gibbons (Headmaster), A. Denton, F. Clark, K. Frost, L. Lucas A. Humphery, S. Clifton, G. Nixon
Front row: G. Hitchcock, F. Older, D. Jenner, F. Selden, R. Brooker, V. Fry
Leigh Fire Brigade pulling the coffin of Harry ‘Potty’ Faircloth who died January 1929 aged 73
Leigh Fire Brigade, circa 1947
Back Row (L to R): Fred Holden, Arthur Hall, Charlie Ingram, Fred Faulty
Front Row (L to R): Bert Stubbins, Bill Fairclough, Lil Pankhurst, Bernard Pankhurst, Bill Sellings

Airmen on parade at Penshurst Airfield during the Second World War
Leigh Conservative Association dinner, 1936
Leigh Fire Brigade photographed outside Hall Place, 1926.
Leigh Royal British Legion Table Tennis Club Team D won Division Two, Tonbridge and District League and promoted in year 2001/02
Graham Eade, Clive Harding, John Batchelor
Leigh Royal British Legion Table Tennis Club Team C won Division Two, Tonbridge and District League, 2000
Malcolm Coles, Andrew Everett, Andrew McCarthy, John Knock
Leigh Royal British Legion Table Tennis Club Team B in Division Two, Tonbridge and District League, 2000
Toby Massey, John Butler, Ted Houghton
Leigh Royal British Legion Table Tennis Club Team A in Division One, Tonbridge and District League, 2000
Roger Pingram, Mike Anderson, Paul White
Juliet and Andrew Houghton playing table tennis for England v Japan, 21 January 1986
Leigh RBL Table Tennis Club playing Dordrecht (Netherlands) in Leigh Large Village Hall 1988
Leigh Football Club, 1997. Centenary Tour Party to Spain organised by Colin Fry and John Batchelor outside the Bat & Ball
Leigh Football Club, c. 1947.
Back Row: Howard Fairclough, E Stalton, Sid Lucas, Ray Brooker, Jim Fitzjohn, Albert Hewitt
Front Row: ?, George Healey, R Baker, Eric Batchelor, H Spencely
Leigh Football Club, c. 1904
S Hitchcock, I Stolton, F Fitzjohn, F Parker, H Hitchcock
T Parker, H Hounson, A Stubbings
unknown, H Young, F Faircloth, B Faircloth, S Brooker
Charcott Football Club
Leigh Cricket Club Juniors, 2002. Back Row: ?, John Solari, Eddie Allwood, Tom Belward, Andrew Massingham, Will Martin, Arun Munday
Front Row: Frankie Baker, Jamie McCarthy, Charlie Armstrong, Matthew Coleman
Colin Cowdrey’s visit to coach Leigh Cricket Club Juniors on Leigh Green, 24 June 1981. Adults are Colin Cowdrey (left), John Knock and Tony Sadler (right)
Leigh Cricket Club 1974. Back Row: Nick Taylor, John Knock, David Beater, Clive Harding, Tony Brooker. Front Row: John Batchelor, Keith Dolling, Colin Fry, Eric Batchelor, Vic Clark, Don Fuller
Leigh Cricket Club, Juniors 1973. Back Row: Mervyn Barnes, Paul Roskilly, Trevor Martin, Oliver Gravel, Stephen Young. Front Row: Kevin Jenner, Stephen Holden, Colin Pullen, Brian Martin, Paul Beater, Terry “Noddy” Hallett
Leigh Cricket Club, 1965. Back Row: Peter Clark, Mike Ludlow, Tony Brooker, Jim Fitzjohn, Peter Gow, John Knock. Front Row: Phil Page, Ray Brooker, Peter Huntley, Eric Batchelor, Derrick Rudd

 

 

 

L-R Bernard W Pankhurst (70), Douglas J Pankhurst (74) -both with glasses and Bert Stubbings (85)
L-R Bernard W Pankhurst (70), Douglas J Pankhurst (74) -both with glasses and Bert Stubbings (85)  (December 1969)

 

Bell ringers, 31 October 1931, probably taken to celebrate the installation of the sixth (treble) bell. From left to right: Bernard Pankhurst, Charlie Ingram, Stan Denton, Miss Lillian Passingham, Wliiam Card, Bert Stubbings

 

 

 

 

Powder Mills football team 1922-23
Powder Mills football team 1922-23:

Team: Back Row, L-R:  Noel Jempson; Charlie Bartlett, Bill Card, M Evelyn, Goodwin; Alf Batchelor, Jack Jempson, Reg Buss, Charlie Hayter (of Leigh)
Seated, L-R: Len King, A N Other, Chummy Card, Reg Andrew Reg Beach.

See article under Powder Mills ‘Charity Win‘

 

 

Powder Mills Football Team 1922-23 (with additional player)
Powder Mills Football Team 1922-23 (with additional player).  This photo is almost identical to the previous, except that Charlie Bartlett and Bill Card are now seated, and an additional player – name not known – is in the back row.  Again, team are:

Back Row: L-R:  Noel Jempson, Unknown, M Evelyn, Goodwin, Alf Batchelor, Jack Jempson, Reg Buss, Charlies Hayter (of Leigh)
Front Row: L-R: Len King, A N Other, Chummy Card, Reg Andrwe, Reg Beach.
On ground: Charlie Bartlett, Bill Card

 

 

Leigh Football Club - undated - please contact Society if you recognize any of the players.
Leigh Football Club – undated – please contact Society if you recognize any of the players.

 

 

Cricket Club - undated - please contact society if you recognize any of the players
Cricket Club – undated – please contact society if you recognize any of the players

 

 

Photograph given to Society by Gill Walters, granddaughter of Douglas Pankhurst. People and event unknown. If you recognize any of the people or for what event the cup was awarded, do please let the society know.
Photograph given to Society by Gill Walters, granddaughter of Douglas Pankhurst. People and event unknown. If you recognize any of the people or for what event the cup was awarded, do please let the society know. Contact the Society.
Football team - names not known. If you recognize any of the players, do please let the society know.
Football team – names not known. If you recognize any of the players, do please let the society know. Contact the Society.