A programme for a friendly match between a Lowestoft FC and Kirkley FC combined team against the reigning double-winners Aston Villa played at Crown M

A programme for a friendly match between a Lowestoft FC and Kirkley FC combined team against the reigning double-winners Aston Villa played at Crown Meadow, 28th February 1898, large single sheet, printing to front only, team line-ups, advertisements and portrait of Mr W. Beatton the Lowestoft captain who impressed the visitors this day and led to his transfer to the Birmingham professional club despite Lowestoft & Kirkley's 6-0 defeat to Villa, multiple folds, and paper loss to the centre