Box People and Places
Latest Issue 23 Spring 2019
  • This Issue
    • Mildred and Stanley Brunt
    • Rev Vere Awdry Photos
    • Botcherby Family
    • Just a Lad
    • Pictor & Sons
    • Box Rovers Later Years
    • Box Mill Dangers
    • Hubert Sawyer
    • A Quarry Woman
    • Save our Swan, 1995
    • Fanny Sheppard
    • Modern Art
    • Kingsmoor House Fire
    • Corsham Revealed
    • Bullock Clock Running
    • Memories of Highlands
  • Georgian
    • Vulgarity in Box
    • Rebuilding the Village
    • Speke Family
    • Georgian People
    • Georgian Timeline
  • Previous
    • Issue 22 - War Memorial
    • Issue 21 - Childhood 1949-59
    • Issue 20 - Box Home Guard
    • Issue 19 - Outbreak WW2
    • Issue 18 - Building Bargates
    • Issue 17 - Railway Changes
    • Issue 16 - Quarries
    • Issue 15 - Rail & Quarry
    • Earlier Issues 1 - 14 >
      • Issue 14 - Civil War
      • Issue 13: Box Revels
      • Issue 12 - Where You Live
      • Issue 11 - Tudor & Stuart
      • Issue 10 - End of Era 1912
      • Issue 9 - Health & Leisure
      • Issue 8 - Farming & Rural
      • Issue 7 - Manufacturing
      • Issue 6 - Celebrations
      • Issue 5 - Victorian Centre
      • Issue 4 - Slump after WW1
      • Issue 3 - Great War 1914-18
      • Issue 2 - 1950s & 1960s
      • Issue 1 - 1920s
    • Currency Converter
    • Index By Author
  • People
  • Places
  • Series
    • WW2 Index >
      • Box in 1943
      • Aircraft Factories
      • D Day Implications, 1944
      • Peace
      • After the War
      • Epitaph to WW2
      • Wartime People
      • Bath Blitz 1942
      • Invasion Threat 1942
      • Children in War
      • Air Raids on Box
      • Royal Visits
      • Your WW2 Tributes
      • Box Home Guard >
        • Home Guard Names
      • Life at Home
      • Dunkirk Evacuation
      • Evacuee Children
      • Village & Ammunitions Depot
      • Memories of WW2
      • In Service at Home
      • At War
      • Lead up to War
      • Servicemen & Women
      • Timeline 1939-45
    • Rail & Quarry >
      • Recalling Box Quarries >
        • Oily Series
      • Quarrymen and their Families
      • Built in Stoneyards
      • Quarries in 2000
      • Light Through Box Tunnel >
        • More Light on Tunnel
        • Brunel Myth
        • Sunrise at Box Tunnel
      • James Moodey
      • Railway Staff in Box
      • Impact of Railways
      • Vivash Follow-up
      • Underground Quarries
      • Lambert's Stoneyard
      • Railway Policeman
      • Vivash Family
      • Railway Buildings and More
      • Why Railways Came to Box
      • Box in 1830
      • Building Box Tunnel
      • Boxing and Quarrymen >
        • More Jem Mace
      • Clift Quarry Steam Loco
      • Timeline 1830 - 1870
    • Box Farms >
      • Weavern Farm and Mill
      • Old Jockey Farm
      • Hill House Farm
      • Coles Farm
    • Box School Story >
      • Box Charity School
      • Formation of Box Schools
      • Schools WW1 to WW2
      • Box Schools, 1920s
      • Boys' School, 1927
      • Evacuee Schoolboy 1941
      • Box School 1945-83
      • Class of 1954
    • Tudor Index >
      • Box in Civil War 1642 - 51
      • Wolf Hall and Box
      • Marsh Family
      • People during Civil War
      • Original Box Revels
      • Tudor Local Government
      • Ordinary People
      • Religion in Box, 1475-1660
      • Where You Live in 1626 >
        • Ashley
        • Central Box
        • Ditteridge
        • Hatt, Old Jockey and Blue Vein
        • Hazelbury
        • Henley and Washwells
        • Kingsdown
        • Middlehill
        • Rudloe
      • Hugh Speke Shaped Box
      • Walter Bushnell
      • Reformation in Box, 1535
      • Ten Tudor & Stuart Mansions
      • Death at Thomas à Becket >
        • For Whom Box Bell Tolled
      • Tudor & Stuart Timeline
      • John Aubrey's Box
    • Box Library Project
    • NATS Trails >
      • Alcombe and Shockerwick
      • Mills on Box Brook
      • Saxon Footpaths
      • Box NATS Trails 2018
      • Roman Road
      • Box Hill Trail
      • Georgian Middlehill
      • Mad House
      • Thomas Railway
      • Market Place Origins
    • Late Victorian >
      • Northey Estate Sale 1912-1923
      • Box Fete & Friendly Societies
      • Methodism in Box
      • George Reeves, Quarryman Ganger
      • Dipsomania in Box
      • 1870 Start of Era
      • Victorian Farming
      • Ashley Leigh
      • Steam Mill and Cottages
      • Class Division
      • Grove Inn
      • Box House
      • Celebrations >
        • Jubilee Mug 1887
      • Parish Magazine History
      • Postcards of Box >
        • Postcard Solved
      • Skeate, Speck and Ponting
      • 1899 A Year of Festivities
      • Valens Terrace
      • Village Outings >
        • Excitement for Outings
        • Cycling Craze
      • Timeline 1840 to now
      • Local Pubs
    • Great War >
      • Photos 2014
      • Cecil Lambert's War
      • After the War
      • Box School Research
      • School WW1 Projects
      • List of Servicemen
      • Embroideries
      • In Memoriam
      • Never Forgotten
      • Where They Lived
      • Christmas 1913 and 1914
      • Children in WW1
      • Neighbour Against Neighbour
      • Home & Far Away
      • Finding Private Hall
      • Box Before the War
  • Contact
    • Blog
    • Q&A
Tennis Names from 1948
Bill Cooper
November 2016
When we featured Sports Clubs in Box, we asked readers to help name the players from 1948. Thanks to Bill Cooper we have done just that. If you are related to any of these people we would love to hear more about memories of your famiy or of Box.
Picture
Photo courtesy Margaret Wakefield
Back Row, left to right: Fergus Fortune, Stan Burrows, Jack Tottle (Pipe), Eddie Cooper, Win Cooper, Alec Birmingham,
Wilf Clothier, Mrs Clothier, Sheila Burrows, Mary Lambert, unknown                                             
Front Row: Barbara Merret, Bill Cooper, Pat Birmingham, Mrs Fortune, unknown, Rose Birmingham, Jill Eyles, Margaret Lambert

Back to Issue 15