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...

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...

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

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....

(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...

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

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...

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

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....