CAST INTO THE WILDERNESS
ing round, only to lose at 5-1 Dunstable Town, in 1956/57. The club became founder
members of the Aetolian League in 1959/60 and the Greater London League in 1964/65,
taking the 'Section A' league title at the end of that first season.
The Wilderness in 1935. The site encompassed all of the area in the centre of the picture and was
surrounded by a high brick wall. The main football pitch was inside the track, centre left
Eton Manor and Clapton players line up before Manor’s
first- - ever FA Cup tie at The Wilderness in 1935/36
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