Item 1 - Football Ground

4 items, paper

File containing the following items:

(1) 18th June 1908 – letter from Francis Mugliston, writing on behalf of Cambridge St Mary’s Football Club, to ask if the College would lease them a ground for the purposes of association football during the coming season. He explains that Cambridge St Mary’s were in dispute with the Football Association (FA) and had severed their links with them and joined the Amateur Football Association. The result was that they had been turned out of their old ground and were looking for a new one

(2) 13th July 1908 – letter from F. Rayner (builder) to the College informing them that he had been approached by the Committee of the Cambridge Town Amateur Football Club with a view to hiring the ground in Purbeck Road, He states that he was agreeable of the College would give their consent. The proposed rent was £7 which they paid for use during the football months

(3) Pencil notes of terms for an agreement written on Jesus College headed paper

(4) 8th May 1909 – letter from H. W. Mouel (Honorary secretary of the Cambridge Football Association) to the Bursar – requesting whether the College would enter into negotiations for the tenancy of ‘the field adjoining the disused Newmarket railway siding near the Romsey Council School’. Attached is a copy of their balance sheet

Originally in a box called "Station Estate 5. Hills Road 2. Trumpington Inclosure 1877-1986. 99 Year Leases expiring 1985" in a folder labelled “1908 Purbeck Road. Football Ground Cambridge Town Football Club”