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Jeg vils Haunting because ind they're invariably cheer ful and carefree when , in IN today's picture we leey again have one of those haunting photographs galia tutus that were taken during that last year before the outbreak of the Second World War . Gazette , Monday , April 26 , 1999 6920 12 10 North Eastern League Calm before the storm Championship . reality , a thundercloud was gathering on the hori zon and shortly life was never going to be the same again . It has come to me from a reader in Central Gardens in South Shields , Mr Con nolly , and is of South Shields AFC during its 1938-39 season . That was the year , I think I'm right in saying , that the side won the We have all the names of these players so without further ado , in that back row , from left to right , there's Victory , Maid ment , Swift , Johnson , Dryden , Clacher , and Birkbeck . Man BEFORE THE THUNDER BROKE ... South Shields AFC during its last pre - war season . Second row : West , Blenkinsop , Heslop , Hop kinson , Simpson , Preston , Anderson , Wyness , Harri son and Wallace . Front row : Veitch , D Smith , M Smith , Middle ton , Varty , Tabram , Turn bull , Vickers , Coulthard , and G Gray ( trainer ) . |
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