Here we have A. Hitch of Watford, formerly with Queens Park Rangers, in a very curious and colourful strip, which was only worn between 1901 and 1909, though the same colours and stripes were worn vertically from 1898 until 1901. You can see all their kit changes online. There have been a lot!
At the time our card was issued Watford played at Cassio Road. They moved to their current ground at Vicarage Road in 1922. Now the reason for the card was that I noticed that the Vicarage Road ground was included in the Open House, but I cant find it now and it isn`t on the official map. Things were much easier when they issued a book, I find the website a bit hard to navigate. Anyway if you got Open House Weekend from this well done, and do let us know the link if you found it!
This set is from a curious little group, just six sets, issued between 1904 and 1909, and all prefixed by "Series 1" to "Series 6" - but "Series 1" was not their first issue, that had appeared in 1897 - and they would issue other sets, after "Series 6", right up to 1926, with no prefix. The sets are
- Series No.1 - "Naval and Military Phrases" (1904)
- Series No.2 - "Owners, Jockeys, Footballers, Cricketers" (1906)
- Series No.3. - "Owners, Jockeys, Footballers, Cricketers" (1907)
- Series No.4 - "Star Artistes" (1907)
- Series No.5 - "Football Captains 1907-8",
- Series No.6 - "Wonders of the World" (1908).