Prestatyn Town F.C.

Early years

Records show that football has been played in Prestatyn since the early 1890s with games being played on an undeveloped field on Marine Road. Other pitches around the town were also utilised but by the 1930s when the club settled on Bastion Road ground behind what is now the Central Beach Club. The early history of Prestatyn Football Club is somewhat sketchy as there were many teams who lasted just a couple of seasons before folding. Prestatyn Town played their first game on 20 October 1910 when they travelled to Rhyl Amateurs, winning 3–2. One Prestatyn side did enjoy some form of longevity, winning the North Wales Coast FA Junior Cup in 1928–29. At the time Sam Bennett, who was manager, carried out training, acted as club linesman, headed up the committee and also supplied match reports to the local press. Although never one of North Wales' football's leading lights in the pre and inter-war era, Prestatyn attracted their share of noted players including left back Alf Smith never disclosed his age to anyone but had a long and distinguished career with the club before hanging up his boots after a spell with Penmaenmawr. Other names included George Drummond, an old-fashioned wing-half, winger-cum-centre forward Roger Jones, who had also played for Rhyl in the Birmingham League. Also there were the Roberts brothers, Alf and George and 'Cunnie' Jones who left Prestatyn to become a centre-half with Rhyl. For a time in the late 1940s the club adopted the…