LOST FOOTBALL CLUBS OF ESSEX

LOST FOOTBALL CLUBS OF ESSEX.

Rob Errington knows the history of our league,like no-one else & he shares this in some wonderful articles on this site & also in the pages of cup final programmes. There have,also over the years been a number of East London & Essex clubs that have fallen by the wayside & i thought I would share some of them with you all.
Old Castle Swifts Football Club, the first professional football club in Essex, was formed by Scottish shipowner Donald Currie in September 1892 as Castle Swifts Football Club. The club's first home ground, located in West Ham, was named Dunottar Park, after the Castle Line company's ship Dunottar Castle. In 1894, Old Castle Swifts merged with Old St Luke's and was renamed. The club was wound up the following season. Its demise saw several players join the newly founded Thames Ironworks, the club that was later reformed as West Ham United.
Old Castle Swifts Football Club
Nickname
The Swifts
Founded
1892 as Castle Swifts F.C.
Dissolved
1895
Ground
Dunottar Park 1892
Temple Meadows 1892–1894
Hermit Road 1894–1895
Capacity
1,000
Thames A.F.C. were an English football club from Custom House, east London, which played in the Football League between 1930 and 1932.
Thames Association Football Club
Founded
1928
Dissolved
1932
Ground
West Ham Stadium,
Custom House,
London.
Grays Thurrock United Football Club were an association football club from Grays, Essex, England.
Grays Thurrock United Football Club
Founded
1924
Dissolved
c. 1932
Ground
The Lawn, Little Thurrock (1924–1925)
Recreation Ground (1925–1929)
The Lawn, Little Thurrock (1929–)
Obviously since this there has been Thurrock f.c. who sadly also folded.
Hoffman Athletic Football Club was a football club based in Chelmsford, Essex, England. They were one of the works football teams of the Hoffman's Bearings Company, the other based at Stonehouse, Gloucestershire and also named Hoffman Athletic. The Essex club participated in the FA Cup on four occasions before and after World War II.
Hoffman Athletic Football Club
Founded
1907
Dissolved
1984
Ground
Coval Lane
Rainsford Road
St Fabians Drive
Pegasus Athletic F.C. was a football club based in south Essex, England. They were the founding members of the Essex Senior Football League in 1971. In the 1971–72 season, they finished 3rd place out of 9 clubs. However, in the following season, they resigned from the league after playing only one match, losing 11–1 against Tiptree United on 2 September 1972. Their record was expunged. Pegasus' last ever game came against Barkingside in a 15–2 loss in the FA Amateur Cup on 9 September 1972.
Pegasus Athletic Football Club
Dissolved
1972
Ground
Southend Stadium.
East Ham United Football Club was a football club based in East Ham, Greater London, England. The club played at the Manorway.
During the 1890s an unrelated club named East Ham Town competed in the South Essex League.During the 1910s, another unrelated club representing East Ham, named East Ham, competed in the Spartan League.
The club was established in 1933 as Storey Athletic after Storey Street School in North Woolwich. In 1955 the club was renamed East Ham United.They played in the London League until joining the Aetolian League in 1962 but after two seasons the league merged into the Greater London League. The club were initially placed in the A Section, and after finishing sixth in the league's first season, were placed in the Premier Division for the 1965–66 season. In 1969–70 the league merged into a single division, with East Ham winning the title. They then left the league, but joined the new Metropolitan–London League when it was formed in 1971 by a merger of the Greater London League and the Metropolitan League, and were placed in Division One. In 1975 the league merged with the Spartan League to form the London Spartan League. with East Ham placed in Division One. They were promoted to the Premier Division after finishing third in 1976–77, a season in which they also reached the quarter-finals of the FA Vase. After a single season in the Premier Division, the club transferred to the Essex Senior League in 1978.
After two good seasons, the club struggled in the Senior League, only finishing in the top ten three times in the next 21 seasons.In 2001 they merged with Barking to form Barking & East Ham United. The merged club folded in 2006 and whilst Barking were reformed, East Ham remained defunct.
Beckton United Football Club was a football club based in Beckton, England. The club primarily played in the Spartan League.In 1966, Geevor was formed by Martin Evanson and George Raffelli. In 1975, the club changed its name to Beckton United.Whilst playing in the Spartan League, the club entered the FA Vase 11 times, reaching the third round in the 1985–86 season, before losing 3–0 at home to Stevenage Borough. In 1996, the club folded. Who can forget the wonderful Reg Curtis who for over 50 years filled almost every role at his beloved Eton Manor Football Club a football club based in East London,
The club was established in 1901 as a sports club for the youth of the East End of London, part of the Eton Mission, and were based at Riseholme Street in Hackney Wick.After playing in local leagues,they joined Division One of the London League in 1933 and won the division at the first attempt, earning promotion to the Premier Division. In 1937–38 the club won the Premier Division title and reached the final of the Essex Senior Cup, in which they drew 0–0 with Romford, before losing the replay 3–1.
After World War II the London League resumed in 1945 with Eton Manor placed in the Eastern Division, before becoming members of the Premier Division for the 1946–47 season. They were runners-up in 1948–49 and won back-to-back Premier Division titles in 1952–53 and 1953–54.A fourth Premier Division title followed in 1955–56 and the club were runners-up in 1957–58.
In 1959 Eton Manor were founder members of the Aetolian League, joining Division One.[3] When this merged with the London League to form the Greater London League in 1964, the club were placed in the 'A' section, which they won in its inaugural season, earning a place in the league's Premier Division for the 1965–66 season. They were runners-up in 1966–67 and 1967–68, and after the league split into two divisions in 1970, they finished as runners-up in the Premier Division 'B' section in 1970–71.
In 1971 the Greater London League merged with the Metropolitan League to form the Metropolitan–London League, with Eton Manor placed in Division One.In 1975 Eton Manor joined the Essex Senior League, where they remained . In 2007–08 they won the Essex Senior League Cup, beating Concord Rangers 3–2 in the final.
Eton Manor withdrew their team from the Essex Senior League at the end of the 2016–17 season, but remained members of the league. Prior to 2017–18 season, the club were placed in Division One South of the Eastern Counties League, but later withdrew and were replaced by Brightlingsea Regent reserves.
Beaumont Athletic F.C. was established in summer 1993 by a group of former pupils of Stepney Green School with the help of the head of year. The team was based around Stepney Green and spent the first year playing in local tournaments and friendly matches. In summer 1994, Beaumont recorded successes in the Tower Hamlets 7-a-side tournament and the Asian national 6-a-side tournament in which 96 teams from across the country participated. Beaumont was the runner-up in the national 6-a-side tournament and was offered the chance to join the Asian Football League.
Beaumont played in the Asian Football League from 1994 to 2001 in which they won promotion twice from the 1st Division. During summer 1997, Tower Hamlets members started the Summer League (known as League Bangla) and Beaumont has been participating in that league for ten years, winning the 1st division and being runner-up in the premier division twice.
In 2001, Beaumont gained Intermediate status and joined the London Intermediate League and in the first season won promotion from the 1st Division. In 2003, Beaumont had a setback as the intermediate league folded and, because of pitch problems, Beaumont was not granted a place in any other intermediate league. Beaumont played in the Essex Business League from 2003 to 2006.
Tower Hamlets Council's leisure department opened up the application process for Mile End Stadium and Beaumont's application to use the facility was successful, ahead of ten other applicants. This led to Beaumont making a bid to play in the Senior League (Essex). Initially, the application was rejected because Beaumont was not part of the National League system. However, after consultation and correspondence with the League and the FA, Beaumont was granted senior status in June 2006. Beaumont played at Senior level from 2006 to 2008, picking up over 25 points in the final season. In 2007, Beaumont also took part in the FA Vase Cup.
Beaumont was at the time only the second club from the borough play at this level and the fourth Asian team in the country to be playing at senior level.
London ApsaThe club was formed in 1993, corresponding with the creation of the first Asian Football League (AFL). They were originally known as Ahle Sunnah.The team was set up by a group of friends from East Ham College in Newham who teamed up with a local youth team, known as Young Muslims, who were no longer eligible to play under-16s football. London APSA were crowned the first-ever Asian League Champions.
The club competed in Asian-run competitions until they decided to join the London Intermediate League in 2000. However, the club resigned pre-season and joined the Essex Business Houses League Senior Intermediate Division. They played in that division for three seasons, after which they joined the Essex Senior League for the start of the 2003–04 season and remained in the league until 2016.
In 2014 the club was renamed Newham Football Club.At the end of the 2015–16 season, the club resigned from the Essex Senior League after finishing bottom of the table, dropping into the Essex Olympian League.The club also reverted to being named London APSA. So there you have it just a little selection from over 100 years of football in East London & Essex it's amazing some really well known clubs who just fell by the wayside whilst in recent seasons with the introduction of step 6., in Essex a pathway has seen a number of new clubs start up , whilst there are clubs in area although limited on resources etc, have just kept soliderng on