Sylvester Baker, author of "A History of Kensington, 1905-1919" played for the South Kensington Football Club, and is sitting in the front row 5th from the left. Sylvester was born in 1901, and appears to be one of the oldest in the team, which probably makes this one of the first football teams from the area with no ex-servicemen. The club played on a ground "behind the South Kensington Railway Station". The names of most of the players can be seen on the Time Travellers website here.
Photo courtesy of Kathleen Baker.
I am intruiged, not by the players, but by the young man sitting on the bottom right. He's still in shorts but is otherwise dressed like a gentleman and has a fob chain.
ReplyDeleteI would be thinking private school boy with a locker or door key on the end of that chain. Father prominent in trade, perhaps?
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