Links With The Past: 1913/14 Season Tickets

These two Leicester Fosse Season Tickets are 110 years old. The name on the inside cover of the blue ticket is Mr. J. Allen, 34 Kingston Road, Leicester. It cost 12 shillings and six pennies (12/6), the equivalent of 62 and a half pence.  

The second, smaller yellow season ticket, belonging to Mrs. Allen, is a ‘lady’s’ ticket. This cost 7/6 (37 and a half pence). The inside pages of this ticket contain a list of the Club’s Directors, terms and conditions and the charges for different types of Season Tickets.

These are in pre-decimal currency. So 20 shillings (20/-) made a pound and 12 pennies made a shilling. So 12 shillings and 6 pence would be written 12/6.mPrices ranged from 21/- for men in the reserved stand to 12/6 in the covered stand and enclosure.

Tickets for a ‘single lady’ ranged from 12/6 to 7/6. Boys’ tickets were priced between 12/6 and 6/-. In a sign of the times, there were no girls’ tickets. Both booklets contained the fixture lists for the three Fosse teams.

They also each contained 38 numbered tickets, one per page to be torn out for admission to the ground. Mr. Allen used 21 of his tickets, whereas Mrs. Allen used 14. That season, Fosse finished 18th out of the 20 teams in the Second Division at a time when there were only two divisions.