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Post by unknownquantity on Jan 31, 2024 22:24:21 GMT
I think that Wealdstone and the original Maidstone United both joined the Southern League from the Isthmian League in the early 1970''s and both were members of the Alliance Premier League which Enfield joined soon afterwards.
During the late 1980's just before I returned to the area I followed Hounslow for a short while. At the time they had been recently relegated from the Southern League to the Hellenic League. A couple of links with Wealdstone was the Gordon Bartlett who later became the long term manager of Wealdstone was Hounslow manager at the time and I have got his book OFF THE Bench, while Paul Bowgett who was Wealdstone's captain during the 1980's managed the Baldock team that played against Hounslow.
I think that we have at least kept the thread entirely football related.
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Feb 1, 2024 9:42:48 GMT
Post by hantslondoner on Feb 1, 2024 9:42:48 GMT
Paul Bowgett and Dennis Byatt were the two centre-backs in Wealdstone's double team - a harder pair of players you would be pushed to find, not much got past them, although they needed pacy full backs to cover for them just in case. There's a team I currently watch at the Silverlake who could do with them :-) (shoehorns in link to current team) Bowgett was also a leader. I also saw him play for Baldock against Wealdstone when he moved there. Baldock won 6-2 with someone called Kevin Phillips amongst the scorers. I also went to Denbigh Road to see Hounslow a couple of times - a good old classic ground with a big history. Unfortunately now disappeared like many in that area. This book is a must-have if you haven't got it already: www.awesomebooks.com/book/9780752431826/football-grounds-of-london/used?gclid=Cj0KCQiAn-2tBhDVARIsAGmStVlBhpJHbBT9pdMdK7db7CQjF8HeXnClhi6MH-F_avhDzVyGHgXIa48aAmH-EALw_wcB
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Feb 1, 2024 10:32:11 GMT
Post by sattsy on Feb 1, 2024 10:32:11 GMT
Yes Watford signed Kevin Phiilips from Baldock Town for £10,000.
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Post by unknownquantity on Feb 1, 2024 22:13:46 GMT
Hounslow l9st their ground at the end of the 1990/91 season and merged with Feltham to form Feltham and Hounslow Borough, but I would probably say that was the end of the club as we knew it.
I first saw Hounslow play in 1986/87. Gordon Bartlett had just joined as manager from Southall who the previous season he had taken to the F A Vase final with Les Ferdinand in the team. In Gordon's first season at Hounslow they won the Hellenic League cup and were promoted back to the Southern League. In their first season back in the Southern League they did enough to avoid relegation, but finished comfortably in the lower half of the table. However the following season they assembled a stronger squad including goalkeeper Alex Welsh who was signed from Wealdstone. Alex was an excellent goalkeeper at Hounslow, but I am not sure if he was so popular at Wealdstone.
This newly assembled team led the table at one stage, but although they finished in the top half of the table were not good enough to get promoted. The following season the budget needed to be cut and Gordon and several of the players left to join Yeading who won the F A Vase in Gordon's first season as manager, IN the same season Hounslow did just enough to stay out of the relegation places, but had to make a cost cutting return to the Hellenic League where theyb spent one season before they lost their ground.
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Feb 2, 2024 10:30:26 GMT
Post by hantslondoner on Feb 2, 2024 10:30:26 GMT
Gordon Bartlett was a local mangerial legend - apart from great success at Southall and Yeading (especially in the Vase, as you say), he was at Wealdstone for 22 years and kept them going during the dark, nomadic times, and took them to the Conference South, preparing the way for their continued progress in the NL today.
Southall were my local team when I was young so I saw them at the classic old Western Road ground regularly. I saw Sir Les play for them (and Hayes) but I was too young to have seen future England internationals Gordon Hill and (current Maidenhead manager, who has also performed miracles there) Alan Devonshire playing for them.
Feltham & Hounslow played at one of the first 3Gs, at Feltham, and therefore the Hounslow bit seemed to get swallowed up, as you say. It became Feltham in 1995.
There is, of course, CB Hounslow United (CB = Cater Bank) which bears the name today, not at all related to the old Hounslow club. I saw them once at Green Lane, just about in the borough of Hounslow, in the Combined Counties. Thry are now in the Surrey Premier.
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Post by unknownquantity on Feb 3, 2024 0:15:06 GMT
IN Gordon's first season at Southall, the club reached the F A Vase final, in his first season at Hounslow the club won the Hellenic League Premier Division Cup and were promoted to the Southern League. In his first season at Yeading they won the F A Vase. I think Gordon left Wealdstone before they reached the top division of the National League so I think that 2004/05 would have been the only season he came up against Eastleigh as manager.
Gordon's father Roy was also groundsman at Hounslow for a time and also founded Viking Sports at around the same time as Derik Brooks founded Eastleigh. For a time Viking Sports were in the same division so matches between the two clubs when the two Bartletts were involved would have been interesting.
I think there was also a club called Hounslow Borough who were formerly Harrow Hill Rovers that featured briefly in the Hellenic League. In the last two seasons of Hounslow before the merger with Feltham the secretary was Jim Horne who was assisted by his daughter. I know one club with Hounslow in its' name had a member of the Horne family involved after the original club ceased to exist, but I am not sure which one,
When the club merged with Feltham Stuart Das who had performed a similar role at Hounslow became one of two joint chairmen. I never saw the newly formed club in action and by this time I had moved away from the area, and I am not sure how many members of the old Hounslow club followed Feltham and Hounslow Borough.
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