Archivist: Head tennis at Stamford Bridge, 1947
Stamford Bridge, August 1947: Chelsea’s Dick Spence (left) and Len Goulden play head tennis during a training session.
Notes
The Machinist leanness of players in the post-war era is still shocking on the eye.
Watney’s, Bovril, Oxo, News of the World. The beer and the tabloid may have bitten the dust, but two out of four ain’t bad – the British and beef, eh.



