09:30AM, Monday 10 November 2025
A DONATED Henley Town Football Club team photo is the oldest that the club’s life president and historian John Bailey has ever seen.
It was taken in 1898 and has the names of the players underneath, and was donated to the club by Henley Standard sports editor Gordon Mather.
He came across the photograph when tidying the office at Caxton House in Reading Road, Henley, following the change of ownership from Higgs Group to the Louis Baylis Trust earlier this year.
It is thought that the photo was originally given to the Henley Standard many years ago by one of the players in the picture, a Mr Heath from Hambleden.
The photo has since been digitally enhanced to show the team’s blue shirts that they would have played in back in the day.
The names listed under the photo include Feesey, Hamilton, Thombs, Fox, Caldecot, Trimmings, Heath, Monk, Aldridge, Save, David, Luker, Owen Betts and Thombs.
The print will be displayed in the clubhouse at Henley Town’s Mill Lane ground.
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