This was a trickier starter, but the clue word was via Fulham, because they play at Craven Cottage. Craven Cottage is the oldest football ground in London, though Fulham started out elsewhere, close to the Church where the team began, and by another name, or two! The full details of their early life and meanderings can be found at the Fulham FC website - and that includes the fact that when they moved to Craven Cottage, they had to demolish the original house of that name.
A cottage is traditionally a house in the country, often thatched. To unromantic souls they are seen as rather small and sometimes slightly out of date This one had a very interesting life, being built amidst the woods in 1780 by the sixth Baron Craven. A later resident was the author Edward Bulwer Lytton. It caught fire in 1888, and only the shell remained. It is said that the centre circle on the pitch is the site of the cottage. There is also another link, because the woodlands were also cleared, but in respect to the original site a single tree was left in place. This was a plane tree and it is in the record books as being the only tree inside a football stadium - it is right in the corner between the Riverside Stand and the Hammersmith End.
This set occupies pages fourteen to twenty nine of our Reference Book RB.12, devoted to the issues of James Taddy, and issued in 1948. This includes listings of all the teams, and the variations in back design. The listing for Fulham is :
At that time there were 401 cards known, but in our World Tobacco Issues Index of 1956 there are 403 known. By the time of our updated World Tobacco Issues Index we had found another two, and the total now stands at 405 cards. I am not sure what the two pairs of cards that were added were, but I am sure one of you does, so please share.
The other details are as follows
