A hundred years before cameraphones meant we could all take selfies at matches Bees fans relied on professional snappers. The photographers would take pictures of the crowds at games, make them up into a postcard, then the next day after the game these would be seen in local shop windows and sold to those who featured in them and wanted to purchase them.
Wearing a cap seemed to be the order of the day back then and some of the fans didn’t seem to want to have their picture taken and can be seen to be shying away from the shot .. maybe they had taken a day off sick from work or something !
Brighton and Hove Albion v Brentford 1911,Bees won 2-0.
The one below is from 1912/13 away to Brighton, we drew that game 2-2, but ultimately that season we got relegated from Southern League Division One, to the second division.
Brighton and Hove Albion v Brentford March 1913
The reverse side of one postcard shows that it was printed by ‘Brighton Camera Exchange’.
And here’s another one from a Brentford game at Brighton, this time from 1922 in the Third Division (South)
And here’s one from the same game which has been colourised.
