Twins come to see where grandad played

Saturday 2nd May 2009, 2:29PM BST.

This picture and Guernsey football cap prompted Yorkshire resident Lesley Patrick, right, and her twin sister Joan Lamb to come and cheer the island on in tomorrow’s Muratti. (Picture by Peter Frankland, 0765801)

A CENTURY after their grandfather played in the winning Muratti side, Lesley Patrick and her twin sister are visiting Guernsey to see the competition for the first time.

Mrs Patrick lives in Yorkshire and decided to come and see the inter-island football match after a chance find.

‘We found the photograph of the winning Guernsey squad, which included my grandfather, William Froome, from 1909, and the green-and-cream cap he got for playing,’ she said.

‘They have been handed down through the generations.’

Her grandfather had been a milkman in Guernsey, but after marrying Stella May Gardiner he decided in 1920 to move to Yorkshire to work in a textile mill. He took with him his cap and winning photograph.

Mrs Patrick’s mother, Peggy Byde Froome, was aged just two at the time and will not be able to fly over for this visit.