Bristol man flooded with football memorabilia
The Evening Post ran a feature on Steve Sutor earlier this month, following his success at lobbying the Championship club to host the finals of the century-old tournament for the first time in 30 years.
Mr Sutor is hoping to compile a book, featuring photographs of the winning team for each year since the tournament was first played in 1907.
Since the piece appeared in the Evening Post, Mr Sutor has received 10 more team photographs that he thought had been lost to posterity.
He said: "It means I now have 40 pictures, which is almost half of those that must be out there somewhere. I would love to receive more, and would encourage people to dig around in their attics to help me to piece together this piece of Bristol's sporting history."
Mr Sutor said he was particularly touched to receive photographs and memorabilia from 90-year-old Ernest Jones, from Henleaze.
Mr Jones, who went on to become a Bristol City star, had played in three successive finals of the Woodcock Shield in 1930-33.
"I was very moved when I went to visit him," Mr Sutor said. "He gave me the three caps from those matches, along with the medals that the boys received. To think that he's kept them all those years, and is now prepared to hand them over to me, is remarkable. When I have finished photographing the items, I am going to present them to the Bristol City club archive, for safe-keeping."
If you can help Mr Sutor to fill in the gaps in the story of the Woodcock Shield, call him on 0787 2532492.
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