Hamlet Historian Check List: The First 12 Issues

Issue One Spring 1998
Cover: Dave Darvill (1950s keeper)
1949 FA Cup match v Bognor Regis. Stand collapsed.
1906 The Amateur Split
1940s Memories by Ralph Hopkins
1956 FA Amateur Cup, Tommy Jover cartoon
1893 The actual date of DHFCs foundation by Roger Deason
1969 FA Amateur Cup v Emley
Clubs played in FA Amateur Cup
Obituary of Leslie Morrish, anecdote of 1935 England match in Chester by Jack McInroy
1903 The death of James Kelly; the result of injuries in a DHFC match. Fellow Hamlet player Jimmy Murphy kicked him in stomach by Roger Deason
1974 FA Trophy match v Margate

Issue Two Summer 1998
Cover: Kim Connett and Ron Bexley 1978
1938-39 London Senior Cup by Roger Deason
1964 FA Cup match v Harlow
1940s Memories by Ralph Hopkins
1977-78 Surrey Centenary Cup, Team photo
1921 Cartoon
1908-12 Charles Tyson by Jack McInroy
1991 Champion Hill old ground to be demolished from Team Talk
1931 Last match on the 1912-31 Champion Hill ground. Boundary of adjoining plot of land.
1893-1915 Portrait of Canon Daniell, first DHFC President

Issue Three Winter 1998
Cover: Steve Bowtell
1981 Steve Bowtell’s injuries
1932 Marine v DHFC. Book review by Mishi Morath
1911-14 Hussein Hegazi by Jack McInroy
1949 Nigerian XI v DHFC
1892-1912 DHFC, Freeman’s Ground, Edgar Kail by Jack McInroy taken from Beasley’s East Dulwich book
1930s Players autographs
1930s Memories by Graham Prette Johns and A. Apicella
1998 FA Cup 1st round match v Southport

Issue Four Autumn 1999
Cover: Edgar Kail cartoon
1973-74 FA Amateur Cup by Liam Hickey
1920s Cartoons of players
1930s Photos of players Goodliffe, Toser, Murry, Kail
1888-1938 Nunhead FC
DHFC and other Dulwich district teams in the FA Cup
1937 DHFC record victory, 13-0 v Walton on Thames

Issue Five Winter 1999/2000
Cover: 1975 Surrey Senior Cup Programme
1940s Memories by Ralph Hopkins
1975 Surrey Senior Cup by Mishi Morath
1920s Pre war DHFC badge
1892-1912 DHFC, Freeman’s Ground, Edgar Kail by Jack McInroy original copy later used in Beasley’s East Dulwich book. Repeated from Issue Three.
1974 Players autographs on programme
1958 Match v Tooting & Mitcham
Dorothy Kail interview by Jack McInroy, cartoon and photo of Edgar Kail
1940s Memories by Bryan O’Connell
1979 Photographs of Champion Hill Stadium

Issue Six Winter 2000
[Pages printed in incorrect order]
Cover: 1929 Cartoon
1925, 1929 Matches v Aldershot Traction Company
1940s Memories by Ralph Hopkins
1950-51 Handbook of Amateur Football by Norman Ackland, four photos
1970 Financial problems, planning proposals
1937 FA Cup match v Aldershot
1950 Match v Wycombe Wanderers
1924 Match abandoned due to sudden death of referee (No DHFC content)

Issue Seven Spring 2001
Cover: Hussein Hegazi
1907 DHFC pull out of Surrey Senior Cup competition
1907 Channel Islands tour
Hussein Hegazi Street in Cairo by Jack McInroy
Hussein Hegazi by a near kinsman, photo and map collage
1924 South Africa FC tour of UK. Photos of Hodgson, Corinthians, Dulwich Hamlet team photo 1925 by Jack McInroy
1932 Programme v Oxford City, Notes on Amateur Cup Final previous week
1932 Report of above match
1937 Match v Ilford
1903 Dulwich St Barnabas
1926 Cartoon
Obituary of Reg Mitchell by Ralph Hopkins
1912 Portrait of Stan Hann
Some copies included portraits of Thompson and Knight on inside back cover

Issue Eight Summer 2001
Cover: Ernie Toser
1950s Hamlet tour photo
1960 Match v Tooting & Mitcham, Cartoon
1958 Oxford City FC book, games v DHFC
1921 The Pink and Blue Bed in Kings College Hospital by Jack McInroy
1937 Ernie Toser by Jack McInroy
1935 Ernie Toser from South London Schools Sports Magazine
Interview with Ernie Toser, 1934 & 1937 Amateur Cup Final team photos
1960s Memories by Peter Norman, photos Merritt and Skipper
1960 Hamlet lottery scheme opposed by Free churches
1960 DHFC Supporters Team match reports, photo of present team
1977 Relegation from Isthmian Premier Division
1925 Edgar Kail portrait

Issue Nine Autumn 2001
Cover: Dick Jonas
History of the Northern Football League book review
1922 DHFC 8 St Albans City 7. Wilfred Minter scores 7 for St Albans
Dick Jonas by Jack McInroy. Four photos, photo of London FA XI in 1913.
Portraits of JR Williamson and TW Kirk
1981 Dulwich Hamlet Junior FC
1952 Match v Kingstonian by Mishi Morath
1952 DHFC’s number one fan by Mishi Morath
1968 Team photo in away strip
1923 Team photo with Surrey Senior Cup and London Charity Cup

Issue Ten January 2003
Cover: Action photo of Doug Waymouth from 1937 Cup Final
1923-24 Handbook
1947 Match v Sing Tao Sports Club by Jack McInroy. Photos, programme from tour
Ernie Toser obituary by Jack McInroy. Photo of elderly Toser
1893-1924 Pa Wilson The Father of DHFC. Photos of Pa Wilson and George Wheeler
1930-31 Team photo
1937 Newspaper clipping (same source as cover)
1924 Programme marking death of Pa Wilson
1937-38 Islington Corinthians World Tour by John Blackmore. Team photo
1940s Newsreel and television footage of Dulwich Hamlet by Jack McInroy
Portraits of Ernie Toser and Tommy Jover

Issue Eleven Winter 2003
Cover: Edgar Kail 1925
1929 Edgar Kail’s three full England caps by Jack McInroy. Two photos
1933 Taffy Hamer’s Welsh cap
1949 DHFC v Nigerian FA signed programme, photo of Les Green and Don Chantry with Nigerian players
1950 Programme notes
Lead footballing figure for sale
1940s Memories by Ralph Hopkins
1893 Club rules and early results
1956 Portrait of Brazilian player Didi training at Champion Hill
England Their England by Nick Harris book review
Unveiling of Edgar Kail’s Blue Plaque by Mishi Morath. Photos of the event

Issue Twelve Spring 2004
Cover: Leslie Green 1945
1946-49 Leslie Green Part One by Jack McInroy, Photo, cuttings, programme (v w Wimbledon) league table
1934 Photo of Ernie Toser’s FA Amateur Cup medal
1950s Photo of Dick Longdon, Press Secretary
1968 Article from Charles Buchan’s Football Monthly. Team photo.
1914 Programme excerpt from London Charity Cup Semi Final
1937 Photo of players arriving in Swindon for FA Cup tie
1950s C.E. Rengger
Brief programme excerpts from 1919, 1920, 1931, 1938, 1940 and 1943.
1978 My First Time by Richard Watts
1974 Thirty years as programme editor by John Lawrence
1949–1955 Televised matches at Champion Hill by Leslie Green
1950 Team photo with London Senior Cup
1949 Cartoon of Dulwich players