Leytonstone F.C.
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Leytonstone F.C. was a London football club, founded in 1886. Its ground was near Leytonstone High Road, next to what was the Midland Railway's overhead line, so near in fact that it was possible to watch the game, looking down from the railway platform. Before 1939 as a juvenile it was possible to watch the game for 2d and 2d for a packet of peanuts. There was one covered stand and the remaining three sides were for standing. Sometimes the Leyton Silver Band would play melodies in the interval and money would be collected in the interval by two men carrying a stretcher along the touchlines inviting people to throw coins into the stretcher.The club's only only success was winning the Amateur Cup in 1946; otherwise there was a memorable away game before WWII when the team lost 13-1. However, it supplied some players to the local porfesional team, West Ham (the other one. Leyton Orient - at one time called Clapton Orient - was always too low in the League to attract players from Leytonstone. In 1979 it merged with Ilford to create Leytonstone/Ilford, a precursor to Dagenham & Redbridge.
