c 1958: HMSO Footballers and Cricketers

Alan Bintley writes:  I enclose a couple of photographs for your gallery, one of HMSO London football team in the late fifties, and one of some of the London cricket team around the same time. In the football picture, the ubiquitous Eddie Truscott is second from the right on the back row, I am on the left of the front row, and Max Hosford, at that time an Assistant Bookseller at the Kingsway bookshop is on the right of the front row. The other lads were mainly from the Cornwall House warehouse, and their names are long since lost to me. In the cricket picture, I don’t recall the name of the lad on the left, but the others left to right are Bill Brion, Alec Gravatt, and myself.

Mike Breslin  adds:  I must say that I am "cut to the quick" that Alan Bintley in submitting the 1958 picture has failed to identify me. Mind you, I am in something of the same difficulty when it comes to others in the photo. I am pretty sure that the player on the extreme left in the back row is Ron Grimwood, with "Jock" Crawford alongside him. In the front row Alan has already identified himself and Max Hosford as the "bookends". In between them the player next to Max is surely Joe Wright and I think the other lad's name was Eric but his surname escapes me. That leaves just three in the back row, including our goalkeeper, still unaccounted for.

(Photos from Alan Bintley)

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