Questions on the 50's

[prestonwcfc]

Just been looking at my City program collection which has caused a couple of questions I'm hoping someone on here may be able to solve !

1. Was the Birmingham League the reserve league in the 50's. If so did City always produce programs for these games or just the 'big' name ties. Likewise did all Southern League games get programs ? If BL games were reserves is this why they were obmitted from the history book by Julian Pugh ?

2. I have a program vs Yiewsley in the Southern League Inter Zone Cup on 15/9/58 yet this does not feature in the book. Any ideas why ? Was this a different cup to the Southern League Cup ?

3. I have a away program vs Harriers dated 26/3/51 , yet the book says this was played on 15/3/51. Which is correct ?

Any help would be appreciated !

[B*ue dragonstander]

Preston - City resigned from the Birmingham League at the end of the 1937/38 season to join the Southern league for 1938/39.

The reserve team played in the Birmingham League after the war (and won the title in one of the immediate post-war seasons) until the very early 60's I believe. I am not sure if the reserves competed in the BL in 1938/39 season.

The Inter-Zone Cup was a competition arranged to plug the gap in the fixture list in the season when the Southern league was regionalised and the number of league games reduced as there weren't enough sides at that stage to replace in fukll the fixtures from the previous season. The additional competition was, I believe, a first team competition and like you on the face of it should be in the Centenary history. No doubt there is a good reason why it is not! The IZC was a different comp. from the Southern League Cup.

As for whether programmes were produced for all BL and SL games who knows! The search goes on!

[glevumblues]

I've got a programme for City Reserves v. Gresley Rovers (or Greasley Rovers, as spelt in the programme!!) from the beginning of the 1957/58 season. I assume this was a Birmingham League game, so I'll have to dig it out and check

[LeedsWCFC]

prestonwcfc said:

1. Was the Birmingham League the reserve league in the 50's.

www.nonleaguetables.co.uk/nonl/nonx_birm1.html might help.

[prestonwcfc]

Thanks guys, all a bit clearer now , though the harriers one is still confusing !!