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Jimmy
Windridge |
Chelsea FC
8 appearances, 7 goals
P 8 W 7 D 1 L 0 F
43: A 5
94% successful
1908-09
captain: none
minutes played: 720 |
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Timeline |
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James Edwin Windridge |
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Birth |
Saturday, 21 October
1882 in Sparkwood, Birmingham, Warwickshire |
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registered in Aston October-December 1882 |
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According to the 1891
census, James is the fourth of five children to James and Harriet (née
Bird), living
at 113 Bolton Road in Bordesley area of Aston, Birmingham. His father is a
gun implement trimmer. |
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According to the 1901
census, James, a gun rifler for the Birmingham Small Arms Company, still lives at home with his parents with
four of his siblings, three older, one younger, still at 113 Bolton Road.
His father is the assistant foreman at the gunmakers.
His father
died in 1905 |
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According to the
1911 census, James is a professional footballer boarding with John Denoon
in the Bragg household, at 43b Barclay Road in Fulham. |
Marriage,%20James.jpg) |
to
Nellie Beatrice Copson, Saturday, 6 July 1918 at St. Bartholomew's Church, Edgbaston, Birmingham,
Warwickshire. A lewis gunmaker by
trade, living at 119 Bristol Road. |
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registered in King's Norton July-September 1918 |
According to the 1921 census, James Edwin is now
married to Nellie Beatrice, and together they are living at 57 Evesham
Road in the Crabbs Cross area of Redditch, where he is a publican at The
Star & Garter Inn. They have one barmaid, Clara Mary Sutton.
According to the Midland Electoral Registers, James and Nellie occupied
the Bulls Head (left) on Stratford Road from at least 1922 until his death.
His mother died on 8 January 1928. |
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Death |
Friday, 23 September 1939, at The Bull's Head Hotel,
1320 Stratford Road, Moseley, Birmingham,
Warwickshire. |
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aged
56 years 337 days |
registered in Birmingham July-September 1939 |
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Obituary |
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According to the 1939 register, Nellie B. is now a
widower, living at The Bull's Head in Moseley, as the manageress. Jimmy had died only six
days prior to this register being taken. |
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Funeral |
Tuesday, 27 September 1939, at Lodge Hill Crematorium, Selly Oak,
Birmingham |
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Probate |
"WINDRIDGE
James Edwin of the Bulls Head Hotel 1320 Stratford-road
Birmingham 28 died 23 September 1939 Probate
Birmingham 11 November to
Nellie Beatrice Windridge widow.
Effects £2918 17s. 6d."
[2025 equivalent: £165,256] |
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His wife,
Nellie, died on 22 November 1987 in Bromford Lane in Birmingham, aged 97
years |
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Source |
 Douglas Lammings' An
English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] & |
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Playing Career |
Club(s) |
Began his junior
career with local amateur side, Small Heath Alma FC before he joined the
local league side, Small Heath FC in the 1902-03 close season.
Chelsea FC, in April 1905, paid a £190 transfer fee for him. Middlesbrough FC then signed Windridge
on 28 November 1911 for a fee exceeding £1000, before he returned to his roots when he
returned to Birmingham FC on 8 April 1914. He retired from playing
during WW1, although he did guest for the BSA football team during the
war. |
League honours
266 appearances, 83 goals
one expulsion |
Small Heath FC 1903-05 26 appearances, seven goals
debut
(division two):
31 January 1903 Small Heath FC 5 Burslem Port Vale FC 1.
Chelsea FC 1905-11
143 appearances, 54 goals
debut (division
two): 2 September 1905 Stockport County FC 1 Chelsea FC 0.
Middlesbrough FC 1911-13 68 appearances, eleven goals
debut: 2
December 1911 Bolton Wanderers FC 1 Middlesbrough FC 0.
Birmingham FC 1914-15 29 appearances, eleven goals
debut (division two):
13 April 1914 Clapton Orient FC 2 Birmingham FC 2.
last
(division two): 24 April 1915 Birmingham FC 1 Bristol City FC 1.
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Club honours |
Football
League Division Two runners-up 1902-03 (7ᵃ 5ᵍ), 1906-07 (31ᵃ 18ᵍ),
1911-12 (2ᵃ), third place 1905-06 (20ᵃ 14ᵍ), 1910-11 (4ᵃ 1ᵍ); Division
One
third place (15ᵃ 3ᵍ);
FA Cup semi-finalist 1910-11 (0ᵃ); |
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Individual honours |
None |
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Distinctions |
Also played
first-class cricket for Warwickshire CCC (seven
matches, 1909-13) |
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Height/Weight |
5'
7", 11st.
7lbs [1908]. |
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Source |
Douglas Lammings' An English
Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990]. |
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England Career |
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Player number |
One of three who became the 330th
players (332) to appear for England. |
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Position(s) |
Inside-left |
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First match |
No.
92, 15 February 1908, Ireland 1 England 3,
a British Championship
match at Solitude Ground, Cliftonville, Belfast, aged
25 years
117 days. |
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Last match |
No. 99, 13 February 1909,
England 4 Ireland 0, a British Championship match at
Horton Park Avenue, Horton Park, Bradford, aged
26 years 115 days. |
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Major tournaments |
British Championship 1907-08, 1908-09; |
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Team honours |
British Championship shared
1907-08, winners 1908-09; |
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Individual honours |
None |
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Distinctions |
Cousin of
Alec Leake,
through the Bird family
Died sixteen days after Tom Booth |
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Beyond England |
Became a licensee, evidently first in
The Woolpack Hotel, then in the Bull's Head
Hotel, in the Hall's Green area of Birmingham. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.273.
Whilst he was a licensee,
particularly in The Woolpack, Windridge organised snooker championships,
to raise funds for the war effort, and also, on one account, for the men
in Ruhleben Camp |
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The Numbers |
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parties |
Apps |
comp. apps |
minutes |
| goals ave.min |
comp. goals |
captain |
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8 |
8 |
4 |
720 |
7 |
103
min |
2 |
none |
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The minutes here given
can only ever be a guideline and cannot therefore be accurate, only an
approximation. |
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Jimmy Windridge
- Match Record - All Matches |
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Type |
P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
GD |
FTS
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CS |
FAv |
AAv |
Pts% |
W/L |
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Home |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
0 |
+4 |
0 |
1 |
4.00 |
0.00 |
100.0 |
+1 |
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Away |
7 |
6 |
1 |
0 |
39 |
5 |
+34 |
0 |
2 |
5.571 |
0.714 |
92.9 |
+6 |
| All |
8 |
7 |
1 |
0 |
43 |
5 |
+38 |
0 |
3 |
5.375 |
0.625 |
93.8 |
+7 |
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Jimmy Windridge
- Match Record - By Type of Match |
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Type |
P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
GD |
FTS |
CS |
FAv |
AAv |
Pts% |
W/L |
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British Championship |
4 |
3 |
1 |
0 |
15 |
3 |
+12 |
0 |
1 |
3.75 |
0.75 |
87.5 |
+3 |
| Friendly |
4 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
28 |
2 |
+26 |
0 |
2 |
7.00 |
0.50 |
100.0 |
+4 |
| All |
8 |
7 |
1 |
0 |
43 |
5 |
+38 |
0 |
3 |
5.375 |
0.625 |
93.8 |
+7 |
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Jimmy Windridge
- Match Record - Tournament Matches |
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British Championship Competition |
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Type |
P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
GD |
FTS |
CS |
FAv |
AAv |
Pts% |
W/L |
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BC
1907-08 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
11 |
3 |
+8 |
0 |
0 |
2.667 |
1.00 |
83.3 |
+2 |
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BC 1908-09 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
0 |
+4 |
0 |
1 |
4.00 |
0.00 |
100.0 |
+1 |
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BC
All |
4 |
3 |
1 |
0 |
15 |
3 |
+12 |
0 |
1 |
3.75 |
0.75 |
90.0 |
+3 |
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All Competition |
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Type |
P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
GD |
FTS |
CS |
FAv |
AAv |
Pts% |
W/L |
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BC |
4 |
3 |
1 |
0 |
15 |
3 |
+12 |
0 |
1 |
3.75 |
0.75 |
87.5 |
+3 |
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All |
4 |
3 |
1 |
0 |
15 |
3 |
+12 |
0 |
1 |
3.75 |
0.75 |
87.5 |
+3 |
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Jimmy Windridge
- Match History |
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Club: Chelsea F.C. -
8 full appearances |
F.A. International
Select Committee - 8
full capsx
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Age 25 |
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1 |
92 |
15 February 1908
- Ireland 1 England 3,
Solitude Ground, Belfast |
BC |
AW |
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il |
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2 |
93 |
16 March 1908 - Wales 1 England 7, Cardiff Arms Park, Cardiff |
AW |
25 |
il |
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3 |
94 |
4 April 1908 - Scotland 1
England 1, Hampden Park,
Glasgow |
AD |
74 |
il |
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4 |
95 |
6 June 1908
- Austria 1 England 6,
Cricketer
Platz, Wien |
tour |
AW |
21, 38 |
il |
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5 |
96 |
8 June 1908
- Austria 1 England 11,
Hohe Warte Stadion, Wien |
AW |
6 |
il |
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6 |
97 |
10 June 1908
- Hungary 0 England 7,
Millenáris Sportpálya, Buda-Pesth |
AW |
30 |
il |
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7 |
98 |
13 June 1908 - Bohemia 0
England 4,
Stadión Letná, Praha |
AW |
38 |
il |
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Age 26 |
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8 |
99 |
13 February 1909 -
England 4 Ireland 0,
Horton Park Avenue, Bradford |
BC |
HW |
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il |
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