Gallery image 2:

Aylesford football team in 1922/23. From left to right, far back row Albert Swain, Harry Cook, Greenfield. Second row: Charles Shaw, Arthur Huggins, Bert Jenner, Fred Watson, Fred, Arthur Burren, Abel Burren, Edward Skinner. Third row: Charles Butler, Cecil Bridges, Simmons, George Johnson, William Wood, Fred Long, Alan (‘Tich’) Jenner, Charlie Watts, Butler. Front row, sitting on ground: Fred Chapman, Jimmy Turner, John Marks.

Gallery image 3:

The Aylesford women’s football team with a trophy in 1928, outside the pavillion of Aylesford Athletic Club. H.L.C. Brassey donated some land east of the village for the club and erected the pavilion in 1897 to commemorate Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee. This pavilion was demolished after 1972.

Gallery image 4:

An early Aylesford School football team.

Gallery image 5:

A rare photograph of AFC 1970-71 team, extracted from the Cup Final programme of the Maidstone & District Primary League. Firstly this confirms the age of AFC as a youth side, secondly it shows a huge variation of ages in the same team
in those days, and finally shows how teams were sometimes kitted out before the days of mass sponsorship!

Back row left to right: M.Tape, S. Hutchinson, J.Pearson, J. Turver, D.Turver
Front row: T. Featherstone, D. Hendry, R. Carpenter, A. Stevens

If you are in this team and/or have any stories/photos or information relating to the Club
in the seventies or eighties please contact the Secretary via the contact page.