St Helen’s ArchivePreserving the past for the future

Item

OT099

Object ID

OT099

Type

Rights Holder

CIC

Provenance

Peter Owens

Season

Description

Ten years history of Swansea Football Club. Item has been digitalised.

Info

An Almanac drawn from newspaper reports and published in 1897. It shows all the recognised fixtures played by Swansea RFC between 1887-88 and 1896-97. Some pages are missing and some damaged and only partially legible. Only two know copies of this Almanac exist, the other being held by the WRU. Not all the details are correct as errors existed in the original news articles. But the book represents the first attempt to describe the story of Swansea Rugby Club and is of historic value for that and for its comments on the games.

Keywords

almanac, 1987, 1896, history of swansea rfc,

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