Club Celebrations and Reunions
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60TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
Saturday, 31st May 1997
A 60th Anniversary Committee consisting of Bob Baker, Andrew Dunlop, Tony Forster, David Mayne, George Potter and Martin Tytherleigh was set up to plan and organise the celebrations to mark sixty years of Icklesham Casuals Football Club. Much hard work was put into tracking down former members and arranging the events which without doubt proved to be worthwhile and enjoyed by those who attended.
AFTERNOON FOOTBALL MATCHES
Icklesham Recreation Ground
The celebrations began with two football matches at Icklesham Recreation Ground in the afternoon. An inter-club friendly was followed by a semi-veterans friendly against Old Centmodians Veterans. The side contained only one non-veteran in goalkeeper Rob Wiley and resulted in a 1-0 victory thanks to a goal from Martin Tytherleigh. The Club was grateful to Old Centmodians for providing the opposition and also to Keith Swallow for refereeing the inter-club game and Peter Mitchell who officiated the veterans match.
INTER-CLUB FRIENDLY
Action from the game…..
ICKLESHAM CASUALS SEMI-VETERANS v OLD CENTMODIANS VETERANS
Action from the game…..
EVENING CELEBRATION
High Beech Hotel, St Leonards-on-Sea
The festivities then moved to the High Beech Hotel in St. Leonards-on-Sea for the evening with the guest list including John Ades, the East Sussex Football League chairman, John Cornford, the East Sussex Football League vice-chairman and Denis Best, the Hastings and District Football Association vice-chairman along with over a hundred past and present members of the Club and other guests. Every decade of the Club’s history was represented including former 1st XI captain Les Beeney who appeared and scored in the very first match on the September 11th 1937.
The evening celebrations included a buffet and disco until midnight and the annual awards for the season were presented. A speech was made by John Ades on behalf of the East Sussex Football League and Andrew Dunlop Senior and John Crisford who recalled many memories of the first sixty years of the Club.
Photographs from the evening…..
