I was fortunate to be given access to a South Kensington Football Club (Victoria) with all players and office bearers named of the Premiership team of 1932. This was followed a day later by another photo, of the Kensington Football Club Grand Finalist team of 1961, also named.
The 1932 team has many surnames reflected in a "History of Kensington" written by Sylvester Baker in 1976. Sylvester grew up in Kensington, and his recollections of the various areas around Kensington are very good - including South Kensington, West Melbourne and an area called Brown's Hill.
What a great collection! I do admit to having to look at a map to see where Kensington South is. I do have some distant Johns rellies who lived in Kensington but can't match them up to any of the featured men but I live in hope that a rellie will come up.
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