{"id":304,"date":"2016-08-19T17:15:51","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T16:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/?p=304"},"modified":"2016-08-31T10:22:22","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T09:22:22","slug":"vivian-woodward-1879-1954-amateur-footballer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/?p=304","title":{"rendered":"Vivian Woodward (1879-1954), amateur footballer"},"content":{"rendered":"

From: Bill Jarvis
\nby email<\/p>\n

\"Vivian

Vivian Woodward<\/p><\/div>\n

My grandmother’s brother, Vivian Woodward, was born in Lambeth and moved to Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, as a small child. He became a footballer, and has been described as the “David Beckham of 100 years ago”, with many great achievements: records lasting until the 1950s for England international caps, goals and hat-tricks. He also captained the Great Britain team to Olympic Gold in the 1908 and 1912 Olympic Games. A hundred years later those games are now regarded in FIFA and elsewhere as the forerunner of the World Cup.<\/p>\n

He did all this as an amateur, working as an architect at the family practice in South London. An excellent biography has been written by Norman Jacobs (Vivian Woodward: Football’s Gentleman<\/em>, 2005), and his achievements are on record. However, not much is known about his later years. My mother took me to visit him at a retirement home in Ealing in the early 50s, but my memory is faint because I was a small boy at the time.<\/p>\n

I know he was an ARP warden during the war at the renowned Bellenden Road Depot. I would be very grateful to get in touch with someone who recalls Vivian Woodward at that time or who knows about the history of the Depot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From: Bill Jarvis by email My grandmother’s brother, Vivian Woodward, was born in Lambeth and moved to Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, as a small child. He became a footballer, and has been described as the “David Beckham of 100 years ago”, with many great achievements: records lasting until the 1950s for England international caps, goals and hat-tricks. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":305,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306,"href":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions\/306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}