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Today’s
visitors
Saltash United
enthusiasts led by long-serving club
supporter Terry Maynard.
HISTORY
Football in Saltash was first played as long
ago as 1893. Teams played under several
names – Essa, Saltash Stars and Saltash
Town among them.
In 1960/61 the club became founder
members of the East Cornwall Premier
League when their reserve side joined and
they were the League Champions and
losing finalists in the League Cup that year.
The team disbanded with the onset of the
Second World War and Saltash United was
in formed in the 1946/47 season.
The following season saw Saltash United
Reserves were runners-up to Torpoint in
the League and winners of the League Cup
after defeating St. Blazey Reserves in the
final. The goal-scoring achievements of
centre forward Mike Green, who notched
up 73 goals in the season, still stands as a
league record.
Playing in the Cornwall Senior League
Eastern Section, their pitch was at
Maunders Field – now the location of Broad
Walk. In the 1950/51 season they won the
‘Triple Crown’ taking all three Cornish
senior trophies – the Cornwall Senior Cup,
The Durning Lawrence Charity Cup and the
Herald Cup.
On gaining promotion from the South
Western League to the Western League in
1976, they won the First Division
Championship in their first season.
In 1951/52 Saltash United made the move
to its current location at Kimberley
Stadium.
The Ashes went on to become one of the
great forces in the Western League Premier
Division during the 80s; barely a season
went by without the team securing at least
one piece of silverware.
The same season saw the formation of the
South Western League and being the top
club in Cornwall, Saltash United became
founder members.
Runners-up in the league this opening
season, the Ashes were the first team to
win the South Western League Cup,
defeating a Torquay United reserve side
3-2. The following season the Ashes
secured the League Championship.
By the end of the 1994/95 season the club
returned to the South Western League as
the high travelling expense of competing
in the Western League took its toll.
Despite winning the Durning La