Harry Bamford

Henry Charles "Harry" Bamford (8 October 1920 – 31 October 1958) was a professional footballer, who played for Bristol Rovers for his entire professional career. He played as a right-back for the club for thirteen years from 1945 until his death in 1958, making 486 league appearances and scoring five goals in the process.

He joined Rovers following the conclusion of World War II, and had played for Bristolian non-league side St Philip's Marsh prior to this. Because of the war, his professional career began at the relatively late age of 25, but in spite of this he played in the second highest number of Bristol Rovers games of any players at the club, behind only Stuart Taylor.

In 1951 Bamford captained an England XI side that toured Australia.

As well as being a player, Bamford also coached at Clifton College, and while riding his motorcycle home from a coaching session at the college on 28 October 1958 he was involved in a collision with a car. He remained in hospital for three days before finally dying from his injuries on 31 October.

Harry Bamford (footballer, born 1914)

Harry Bamford MBE was an English professional football left back and outside left who appeared in the Football League for Brighton & Hove Albion.

Personal life

Bamford fought in Italy during the Second World War, held the rank of warrant officer and was twice mentioned in dispatches. He was later awarded an MBE.

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Harry Bamford (footballer)

Harold W. "Harry" Bamford was an English amateur footballer who played as a half-back for Southampton in the Southern League from 1908 to 1911.

Football career

Bamford was born in Southampton and played his youth football for Bitterne Guild before joining Southampton in the 1908 close season.

Most of his time with the "Saints" was spent in the reserves whom he helped win the Hampshire Senior Cup in 1910. His first-team debut came on 9 January 1909, when he took the place of Bert Trueman at left-half for the Southern League match at Luton Town, which was lost 1–0. Bamford retained his place for two further matches, before John Robertson replaced him, although Bamford returned for two matches at the end of February. Bamford made two further appearances, in April 1910 and in April 1911.

Later career

In 1911, Bamford decided to quit football in order to continue his career as a schoolteacher.

War service

It has not been possible to ascertain why Bamford enlisted in a Shropshire battalion for WW1 having been living in Southampton in 1911. The 1st Battalion were based at Tipperary in August 1914, as part of the 16th Battalion of the 6th Division. They mobilised for war a month later and landed at St. Nazaire, France on 10 September. Harold is thought to have been badly wounded during skirmishes around the Ypres salient in November 1915.

Bamford

Bamford (also known as Bamford with Thornhill) is a village in the Derbyshire Peak District, England, close to the River Derwent. To the north-east is Bamford Edge, and to the south-east the location of the water treatment works covering the Ladybower, Derwent and Howden Reservoirs. Though locally Bamford is described as being in the Hope Valley, it is technically in the Upper Derwent Valley. According to the 2011 census it had a population of 1,241.

History

Its name is recorded in the Domesday Book as Banford, and likely came from Anglo-Saxon Bēamford = "tree-trunk ford".

The parish church of St John the Baptist was built c. 1860. There are also Methodist and Catholic churches in the village.

The village graveyard also contains some re-interred graves from the nearly villages of Derwent and Ashopton which were drowned following the creation of Ladybower Reservoir.

Bamford water mill has been turned into flats but some of the original machinery still remains.

Recreation

The village has a sculpture trail and, in mid-July, there is a well-dressing festival. Bamford has four public houses, the Derwent Hotel (now a self-catering venue), the Anglers Rest, the Ladybower Inn and the Yorkshire Bridge Inn, the latter once home to former Blue Peter presenter Peter Purves. The village also had a weekly Youth Club held in the Memorial Hall until September 2010.

Bamford (disambiguation)

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Bamford (surname)

Bamford is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: