The factory owners and employees were very supportive of the football club in its early days. The club was known as Banbury Spencer FC until the mid-1960s.

This photograph shows a group of women, all of whom worked at Spencer’s, that decided to enter a float in the 1939 Banbury Hospital Fete, electing to go as the Banbury Spencer football team

At this time thousands would turn out for the annual Banbury Hospital Fete, an important fundraiser for the Hospital in days before the NHS.

The women in the photo are:

From left to right standing: Vera Taylor, Jessie Pearsall, Eleanor Anthony, Doris Fortnum, Ethel Harris, Reene Ashton and Kathleen Tooth

From left to right sitting: Ivy Lambourne, Joyce Humphries, Joan Hobbs, Iris Cross and Betty Collins

In the cab is Mrs Stutchbury, her husband was the driver