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Birmingham Football Club (Aston Lower Grounds)
The Birmingham Club was an England, English association football club based at the cricket pitch on the Aston Lower Grounds, and one of the first clubs in Birmingham. History The club was formed by C. H. Quilter, the owner and operator of the Lower Grounds amusement park and gardens, out of players from the Aston United cricket club, in part as an extra attraction for visitors, and having been persuaded to do so by "a Sheffielder called Webster"; many of its players were Quilter's employees at the Lower Grounds. Quilter himself was a regular player for the club. The club gave its foundation date as 1875 although there is at least one reported match from the previous year, against the Calthorpe F.C., Birmingham Clerks Association club. By 1877 the club boasted 150 members and, although its first game was to association rules, it was also a member of the Sheffield Football Association and played some matches to the Sheffield rules. In 1876 the club was the first from outside ...
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Aston Lower Grounds
The Aston Lower Grounds was a pleasure ground area in Aston, (since 1911, part of Birmingham), Warwickshire, England. It was open to the public in the late Victorian era. The facility included a lake, which lay across the boundary of the adjacent county, Staffordshire. History The Lower Grounds were originally the kitchen, private gardens, and fish-ponds belonging to Aston Hall. The Grounds, under the name of Aston Park, were opened to the public by Queen Victoria on 16 June 1858, marking her first visit to Birmingham. J. A. Langford was put in charge of the Aston Hall and Park Company, but the Park suffered from a number of disasters. In 1861, a group of "roughs" rioted when refused admission to a performance by Charles Blondin, and in July 1863, during a charity fĂȘte in the Park, Selina Powell, a tightrope walker who performed under the name of "Madame Geneive, the Female Blondin", fell to her death. The company was duly liquidated in 1864. The clerk of works, Henry ...
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