Tin huts were the height of luxury for ’50s footballers
I was very interested to read Terry Church’s article in The Bugle back in the summer (August 15 edition) on Brierley Hill Boys football team in 1951.
This was mainly because Terry wrote of starting his working life at Richard, Thomas and Baldwin’s works, sixty years ago.
I wonder if Terry and others might be interested in some photographs from my dad, Reg Corbett, who played for the RTB football team in the early 1950s?
Youth team
Dad was a member of the Richard, Thomas and Baldwin’s Youth XI, based at the firm’s Brockmoor works, and among these pictures (repoduced inside on page 27) is a picture of the team taken at Wordsley Park in 1952,
before a match against Wordsley New Street.
The RTB line-up in that photograph was as follows. Back row, from left: Ken Mansell, Arthur Hammill, Billy Day, Harry Roberts, Ivor Egginton, Eric Williams and Don Fereday.
Front row: Reg Corbett (number 9 and also pictured individually), Reg Winwood, Ken Evans, Bob Harper, Brian Raybould and Jack Hollis. Other team members from that time who are not pictured were Arnie Maden and Mickie Winslow.
In action
Also shown here are some of Dad’s action shots from what I think was another RTB game, as well as team members in the corrugated changing room at Wordsley Park. Dad Reg is second from the left in the foreground in the bath picture. I know Billy (‘Knock ‘em down) Day is on the right but I need help identifying others.
Do you recognise any of these RTB Youth players? We’d love to hear from you: email us on gjones@ blackcountrybugle.co.uk, give us a call on 01384 889000, write to us, or pay us a visit at Black Country Bugle, Dudley Archives Centre, Tipton Road, Dudley, West Midlands, DY1 4SQ.