The Dick, Kerr Ladies at Goodison Park

Boxing Day 1920: fifty-three thousand paid to watch the munition works’ team.

Work: press photograph, 26 December 1920
Maker: press photograph
Date: 1920
Ground: Goodison Park
The crowd: 53,000
Era: The interwar game · 1919–1930
Source: Unknown press photographer, 1920 · Wikimedia Commons

The gate receipts knew the truth first.

Format

The full-resolution scan, colour-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore.

Size

$29.00

The story

Boxing Day, 1920. Fifty-three thousand people paid at the Goodison Park turnstiles — with an estimated ten thousand more locked outside — to watch the works team of Dick, Kerr & Co., munitions manufacturers of Preston, beat St Helens Ladies 4–0. It was the women’s game at a height it would wait decades to see again. Within a year the Football Association banned women from its members’ grounds, calling the game unsuitable; this collection tells that plainly, because the record is the point. The crowd is the evidence — nobody bans a failure. The gate receipts knew the truth first.

See it on your wall

The piece, in the room it was made for

The Dick, Kerr Ladies at Goodison Park, printed large and framed — in the den, the club bar, the supporters’ bar. Every edition ships ready to become the piece the room is built around.

The Dick, Kerr Ladies at Goodison Park framed on the wall

About this reproduction

A reproduction of press photograph, 26 December 1920 — press photograph, 1920 — from the copy held by Unknown press photographer, 1920 · Wikimedia Commons. The source. The work was published before 1931 and is public-domain verified.
Printed faithful to that source scan — restore honestly, disclose always. We do not re-colour it, complete it, or interpret it; the piece you receive is the image as it survives, halftone grain honored as history, not damage.
Printed to order on museum-grade cotton-rag stock with pigment inks — the pairing is rated 100+ years.
Colour-managed to the source; the tone of the paper and the ink is the period’s, not ours.
Ships in 5–10 business days, rolled in a heavy-wall tube (framed editions ship flat-packed).
If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your choice.

Why our pieces cost more than a poster: a poster is a mass run on wood-pulp stock, colour-corrected to whatever flattered the press that day. This is one sheet, pulled for you, at a size where the maker’s hand is visible — the linework, the halftone grain, the lettering — on materials made to outlast their owner.

From the same hand