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Frank
Bradshaw |
The Wednesday
FC
1 appearance,
3 debut goals
P 1 W 1 D 0 L 0 F 11:
A 1
100% successful
1908-09
captain: none
minutes played: 90 |
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Timeline |
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Frank Bradshaw |
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Birth |
Saturday, 31 May 1884
at 36 Sidney Road, Nether Hallam, Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire |
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registered as Frank in Sheffield July-September 1884 |
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According to the 1891 census,
a six year-old Frank is the youngest of eight children, to his parents,
Henry William and Harriet (née Ward), living at 40 Bromley Street in Sheffield. |
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(His father died in early 1901)
According to the 1901 census,
still at the same address as ten years ago, Frank is now a holloware
buffer, living with his parents and three of his older sisters. |
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Marriage |
to Frances
May Dibble, in Sheffield, early 1910 |
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registered as Frank in Ecclesall Brierlow January-March 1910 |
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Children |
Frank and Frances had four children together. The first died young,
then Francis Howard (b.August 1912), Alan Robert
(b.August 1918) and Eveline (no registration found) |
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(His mother died in 1909)
According to the 1911 census,
Frank was now living at 68 Ashburnham Road in Northampton, as a
professional footballer, with his wife, 'Francis'. The census
also reveals that they had a child that had died within its first two
years. |
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According to the 1921 census,
Frank, still a
professional footballer, and with his wife, 'Frances' and two new children, Francis
and Alan, they live at 19 Cleveland Road in Barnes. |
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According to the 1939 register, Frank and Frances are
still married, living at The Cross Keys Inn in Taunton, with Eveline, their
child, and Michael J, their grandchild. Frank is the innkeeper and caterer. |
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Death |
Wednesday, 30 May 1962 in Winford Hospital, Whitling Street,
Winford, near Bristol, Somerset |
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aged 77 years 364 days |
registered as Frank in Weston-Super-Mare April-June 1962 |
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"BRADSHAW.—On
May 30, at Winford Hospital, Frank, the beloved husband of Frances, and
father of Howard, Bob and Eveline, aged 77 years... |
Funeral
Saturday, 2 June 1962
Arnos Vale Crematorium |
Source |
"...Funeral service and cremation Arno's Vale,
Saturday at 10 a.m. No flowers by request." - Bristol Evening
Post, Friday, 1 June 1962 |
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 Douglas Lammings' An
English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] & |
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Playing Career |
Club(s) |
Played his junior football with the Sheffield schools between 1895 and
1897, also playing for Oxford Street Sunday School. Began playing with The
Wednesday club of Sheffield as an amateur in 1904, turning professional in
1905. He joined Herbert Chapman's
Northampton Town FC of the Southern League on 14 May 1910 for
£250. Transferred to Everton FC on 23 November 1911 for £1250.
Then joined The Arsenal FC on 29 May 1914. The latter-half of which where
all in the right-back position. |
League honours
285 appearances, 70 goals |
The
Wednesday FC 1905-10 87 appearances, 37 goals
debut:
23 April 1906 The Wednesday FC 3
Everton FC 1.
Everton FC 1911-14 66 appearances, nineteen goals
debut: 11
November 1911 Everton FC 1 Manchester City FC 0.
The Arsenal FC 1914-22 134 appearances, sixteen goals
debut (division
two): 1 September 1914 The Arsenal FC 3
Glossop 0.
last: 2 December 1922 Birmingham FC 3 The Arsenal FC 2. |
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Club honours |
Football League Division One
third place 1904-05 (1ᵃ 2ᵍ); runners-up 1911-12 (21ᵃ 8ᵍ)
FA Cup winner
1906-07 (4ᵃ)
Southern League runners-up 1910-11; |
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Individual honours |
Football League
(four appearances), Southern League (one appearance) |
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Distinctions |
None |
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Height/Weight |
5'
9½",
11st 10lbs [1912] |
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Source |
Douglas Lammings' An
English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990]. |
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Management Career |
Club(s) |
Retired from playing in May 1923 and became the manager of Aberdare Athletic FC for a season. For sometime afterward, he was manager
at Taunton Town FC. |
League honours
P 41 - W 12 - D - 14 - L 16 |
Aberdare
Athletic FC 1923-24
Football League Division Three
South 12th place
FA Cup first round |
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England Career |
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Player number |
335th player to appear for England. |
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Position(s) |
Centre-forward |
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Only match |
No. 96, 8 June 1908, Austria 1 England 11,
an end-of-season Continental
tour match at
Hohe Warte Stadion, Döbling, Wien, aged
24 years 8 days.
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Major tournaments |
None |
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Team honours |
None |
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Individual honours |
None |
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Distinctions |
Bradshaw was the first England footballer to only play against foreign
opposition. His debut goals were the first debutant goals against friendly
opposition since 1883.
Died three days after
Kelly Houlker. |
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Beyond England |
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A
silversmith by vocation. Bradshaw spent his retirement in Taunton, firstly
as manager of the local club side, and as coach to the Secondary Schools
of the County, in November 1935. For a certainty, he was landlord of The
Cross Keys, in Norton Fitzwarren, near Taunton, in 1939. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who. Douglas Lamming
(1990). Hatton Press, p.43/Taunton Courier. |
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