Today 163 years ago: The first match of the Crystal Palace Club – News

But why did the Crystal Palace Club set up a soccer team at all and why were they in Leytonstone, miles away from their house in Sydenham? To answer these questions, we have to return for a few years.

The original crystal palace was built to accommodate the large exhibition from 1851 in Hyde Park. When it closed, it had to be decided what had to do with the magnificent glass building and the largest building in the world.

The exhibition was a rough success and attracted over six million visitors. In particular, it was a great money spinner for the railways that had brought millions of visitors to London, and they were not ready to lose this income without a fight.

In order to save the building from demolition, it was finally bought by the London Brighton Railway and moved to Penge Place in Sydenham, the chairman of the railway company, Leo Schuster. It was rebuilt in Sydenham, even larger than before, and 200 hectares came.

The crystal palace was reopened in 1854 and the park onto the park after completing the interior. In April 1857, the Crystal Palace Company opened a brand new cricket floor in the park and in May it became known that “a club was called” The Crystal Palace Club “in the course of the formation. We will find them on July 13, 1857 in the palace in the palace in the palace against eleven men of boys in the palace [Hospital].

In the 19th century, Cricket was by far the most popular and competitive team game, and serious cricket players would organize football games in winter to stay fit, since no organized teams in or near London were to be played outside of schools and universities.

Internal games were the norm for clubs and would be unmarried between pages such as married V, al (from the alphabet) against the rest and even ugly V handsome!

Crystal Palace Club's cricket games were obviously serious athletes because in 1861 they trained their own winter football team from the 19th century in 1861 – and it was this team that went to Leytonstone in March 1862 to play the Forest Club. But why did you play forest in Essex?

It is almost certain that the connection between the two clubs was a family of five young brothers named Cutbill. Her father Thomas Cutbill was a civil engineer and London agent of Brassey & Wythes, one of the main builders of the British railways; And the owner, Thomas Brassey, was one of the first directors of the Crystal Palace Company.

The census of 1861 shows the Cutbill family, which lives very close to Crystal Palace in the Southwood Lodge, Lawrie Park in the municipality of Beckenham.

Before they moved to Sydenham, the cutbills had lived in Essex, and some of them had been in the local forest school, as did many of the forest team.

The football history shows that the forest team was founded in 1859 and was the oldest organized football team in the London area. Below is a photo of you in 1863, the oldest known photo of a soccer team of the association.