Memories of the White Horse Cup Final

92 year old Denis Higham remembers attending the famous 1923 Cup Final when just 8 years old

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• Higham

[Mph712138]

Sadly, this is true. He was my dad and loved his day out at Wembley. He died peacefully with his daughter holding his hand. A question for VirtusNS. How did you know? Was it the obituary in the telegraph and you recognised the name? Best wishes.

[mozzarella35]

I LOVE this film. Hard to imagine 200,000+ fans crammed into the old stadium - great to finally see some images & hear from someone who was actually there. And it sounds like the Wembley Spirit was strong from the start, lifting this boy to the front of the crowd. WEM-BER-LEY!

[boydegg]

That's a great film. I think that many football fans in one place and behaving well just couldn't happen these days.

[creativesarahv]

brilliant to see my great grandfather was Chairman of west ham FC from 1909 - 1935

[captainbeecher]

@boydegg I think thats more a reflection on society than football though. We definately don't have the same respect for society and eachother as people did then. Today everybody would be going straight to a solicitor to try and sue for mental trauma.

[timen1986]

amazing

[WORLD8NSH5KNIGHT1]

This would have been equivalent to the Live 8 Concert in 2005 in sheer crowd scale. Incredible.

[airman617]

I suspect the 'VirtusNS' indicates an Old boy of the school (Virtus non Stemma being our old school motto), so via the OG network.

[VirtusNS]

Sadly, Dennis Higham died on October 29th, 2009, aged 95.