Factories, flourishes and fancy footwork
This week, the teams worked separately, chatting about their visit to Suffolk Archives and finishing off their worksheets.
Dean joined us, and soon he and Peggy were cooking up a storm, with Dean creating a visual interpretation of Peggy winning a trophy for the longest-lasting snowball, dressed in a special blue coat with red buttons (Peggy always wanted red buttons on her coat, but never got them), and wearing an eye-patch by way of explaining why Dean is drawing Peggy, and not the other way round.
They were all impressed by the Archives, commenting on how inviting it was, how helpful the staff had been – and how much they would like to go back.
The children were similarly impressed by what they had found out and, they told us, had already shared some of those things with their classmates and family.
Next week, Caitlin will be joined by artist Kate Munro and, together with the Extra Time teams, they will create even more ways of sharing some of their discoveries about football in Lowestoft.
Adding contrast to her drawing
Finishing off their illustrations from the Archive visit
Mascots and chocolate bars
Cups and Waves
The Joy of Coloured Pencils
Putting the Eastern Coach Works back on the map, along with one of their coaches.
Fred Wigg played football for Roman Hill Boys team in 1910. He later went on to play for Pakefield Harriers where one of his jobs was to mark out the pitch with sand before the game started.
Kirkley Football Club on the pitch
The Lowestoft Town Football Club Heroes 1946, based on a cartoon in the local press at the time.
The Hooter, Magazine of the Eastern Coach Works, 1951-ish.
The Bally Boys Football team mascot—and one of their very fine bags.
Terry Butcher grew up in Lowestoft. Born Dec 1958 in Singapore. Played football for England.
Between the 1st and second World Wars there were many factories in Lowestoft which employed many workers—in shipyards, coachworks, TV Pye factories, Bird’s Eye. Now, only Bird’s Eye remains. Each had their own football teams.
The Trophy for the Longest Lasting Snowball goes to Peggy, as drawn by Dean.
‘It was like a goldmine. You started one place, but then you kept discovering little things along the way that you never knew and that really surprised you - like Lowestoft Time.’
‘If you were 10 minutes late here, you'd be on time in London.’
‘I never knew any of this. I never knew anything about the Waves or all the teams or about Terry Butcher - it's all new to me.’
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