Steelworks soccer stars of the 1950s

THIS picture from the Bugle collection takes us back to the early 1950s with the football team from Baldwins steelworks in Swindon.

On the back row, from left, we have Bill Chambers (welfare officer), Bill Davies (trainer), Alec Piper, Ernie Kirkham, Derek Wellsbury, Eric Colwell, Major Horton and B.V. Peters (works manager).

Sitting at the front are: Harry Round, George Turner, Bill Kirkham, George Cooper, Alf Robinson John Graham.

and Baldwin’s Swindon works football team, early 1950s