Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Saturday 18 August 1928

Bolton Aspirations.

District Big Enough for Midland or Central League Football.

Municipal football is likely to come to the Urban District of Bolton-on-Dearne now the the local council has accepted the trusteeship of the local Miners’ Welfare ground.

Already the ground has cricket, lawn tennis, and bowls sections, and a plot of land is available for laying out as a football enclosure, the cost which will be borne by a central committee of the .Miners’ Welfare funds.

The meeting convened by the Council, and held at Bolton, last night, to further the scheme, was well attended local enthusiasts. Mr. T. H. Barker presided, and was supported by other members of the Council. He that the district was large enough to support a first-class football team, and one good enough compete in the Midland League or Central League. They had minor clubs in the district, but no Central League representative.

The general feeling was in favour of going forward with the projected scheme.

Mr. G- H. Cooper, the president of the Mexborough Football Association, and Secretary Goldthorpe United F.C., said it would seriously affect the junior clubs in the district, of which Goldthorpe United and Bolton Albions were best.

It was decided to ask the Miners’ Welfare Committee to proceed with the laying cut of the football ground, and committee was arranged pro tem to carry out the preliminaries of the scheme and to report to further conference.