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1982
Aged 69

Harry TIMBRELL
A local amateur forward plucked from Swindon & District League football, Harry made only 8 first team appearances for Town, but scored four times. An executive officer for the Borough Council, he was still playing in Cornwall after the War. He retired to Suffolk and died in Ipswich.

1930
Aged 55

Jimmy POPPITT
Shropshire-born Jimmy had two spells at the County Ground and was Town's top scorer in 1902/03. After finishing playing, he returned to Swindon and in 1923 became licensee of the Whale Inn - on the corner of Medgbury Road, next to the old canal - on what is now Fleming Way.