The privations of war as seen at Ayresome Park

Warwick, Tosh ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9112-4612 (2019) The privations of war as seen at Ayresome Park. The Gazette, Middlesbrough.

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Abstract

On 9th September 1914 Boro fans departed Ayresome Park content following the Boro’s 2-0 victory over West Bromwich Albion. A month later, the men who had stood on the terraces at the club’s Ayresome Park home ground were heading off to the continent for a conflict that would be ‘over by Christmas’. Here Manchester Metropolitan University historian Dr Tosh Warwick looks back at life at Ayresome Park from the outbreak of hostilities up to the festive period that failed to bring the expected end to hostilities…