Brakes Videos: Champion Brakes on DVD
Whole match DVD’s of the final five matches of the Brakes Southern League Championship Winning 2012/13 Season and a DVD of available highlights are available to order now
Category: History
Norman Brison RIP
Brakes historian, Paul Vanes, writes: NORMAN ERNEST BRISON born 28/04/1931 died 09/03/2013 In common with all of us young men until 1961, we were conscripted into National Service and Norman “chose” the Army to...
Jimmy Knox – RIP.
Jimmy Knox, one of non-league football’s most successful players and managers in the Midlands, passed away on Christmas Eve, aged 77. Paul Vanes describes Jimmy’s football career …
JACK OAKES R.I.P.
Paul Vanes writes: JACK OAKES R.I.P. Jack Oakes born 1923 died 2012, aged 89. We are sorry to have to tell you of the death of another grand old Brake, Jack Oakes who was...
John (Jack) Joseph Evans – RIP
It is with regret that we announce the death of former Brakes and Coventry City Forward John (Jack) Joseph Evans. Paul Vanes writes: Born 11th March 1926 died 15th April 2012 (aged 86), Jack...
SHOW OUR SHIRT TO THE TOWN
The shirt pictured was from the last game played by Leamington Town in 1937. Dick Askew handed the shirt over to Les Spreckley stating he wouldn’t be needing the shirt any longer. In later...
Sid Ottewell – born 23 October 1919 died 31 January 2012
It is with regret that we announce the death of one of Lockheed-Leamington’s greatest managers, Sid Ottewell who passed away on January 31st at a nursing home in Eastwood at the grand old age...
