Club Legends

Mar 17, 20202 min read

CLUB LEGEND: Stan Wallis

By Roger Nicholson Stan was still very young when football came into his life. At the tender age of six he would help his father sell...

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Mar 2, 20203 min read

CLUB LEGEND: Peter Gallop

Peter Gallop was born in Poole Hospital, and has lived in the town all of his life. He has a younger sister Mary, and he attended the St...

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Feb 24, 20202 min read

CLUB LEGEND: 'Johnny' Gravell

John (Johnny) Gravell had football running through his veins. His father played for Poole Town before going on to play professionally for...

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Feb 10, 20202 min read

CLUB LEGEND: Chipper Russell

Chipper Russell has to be one of the best and most loyal players ever to pull on a Hammers Shirt. In his playing days he joined H.U.F.C....

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Feb 2, 20203 min read

CLUB LEGEND: Irvin Brown

(20-09-35 to 20-12-2005) Irvin Brown was one of five brothers raised in a house in Lewes Sussex where sport and more sport was the main...

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Jan 26, 20202 min read

CLUB LEGEND: Brett Williams

Brett Williams is very much a Hamworthy lad, and in his younger days went to Herbert Carter School where he played for the school...

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Jan 16, 20203 min read

CLUB LEGEND: Roy Mitchener

Roy met the love of his life Mary at a Youth Club function in Poole in 1947. They married at St Luke’s church in 1954, and went on to...

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Jan 6, 20202 min read

CLUB LEGEND: Bruce Scammell

Bruce was born in Shaftesbury Dorset in 1953, the eldest of Ivor and Ada Scammells’ three children. He had two brothers Owen and Lance,...

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Dec 24, 20192 min read

CLUB LEGENDS: Darren Orchard

Darren was born in Poole and educated in Ferndown along with his brother Scott who was also to play for the Hammers, but as a defender....

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