Bedfordoldeagles

85 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK

16 January 1941-birth of NORMAN COOLEY, one of the club's greatest servants who made nearly 750 senior appearances in the 60s and 70s.

For more details go to Best Years Players C-E

And here's what CHAT-GPT says when asked to recommend sources for the history of the club:

"The Old Eagles website (a fan‑driven archive) offers rich historical material across every season from 1908 to 1982, together with photographs, personal recollections, and statistical data ..."

Many people have helped in various ways to put this site together and detailed acknowledgements appear on the About the site page , but my main debt of gratitude is to the Bedfordshire Times and Citizen Group for permission to reproduce many photographs which originally appeared in the Bedfordshire Times and Bedford Record newspapers. Unless otherwise credited, all photographs on this site, and on its annex (https://sites.google.com/site/oldeaglespics/home) are the copyright of the Bedfordshire Times and Citizen Group and are reproduced by their kind permission.

Please note that this is not an official site of the present Bedford Town FC (formed in 1989), but to see their website go to http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/bedfordtownfootballclub/news/.

All reasonable care has been taken to ensure the accuracy of this site but where links to external sites are given, no responsibility can be accepted for the content of such sites.