Action from the friendly played to celebrate the official opening of the Hartsdown Park floodlights on 12th October 1959. West Ham won 3-1 in front of 4,126 spectators. Margate are in the white shirts and the three players in the foreground are (from the left) Albert Foan, Freddie Kearns (number 9) and Eric Worthington. Both Foan and Kearns were former West Ham players. The Hammers goalkeeper is Noel Dwyer and the player in the centre challenging Kearns is Ken Brown.

A match report for the game...

The signatures of the West Ham players obtained by Margate's Terry Joyce for his nephew Grahame Joyce...