The crest of Irlam FC, a club from Greater Manchester, will play at their home ground, Silver Street, against Chertsey Town who put St Austell FC out of the FA Vase at the weekend. The Vase at this late stage (last 16) still contains some fascinating clubs and names.
motto: ingenio et consilio = by natural ability and council
Irlam FC founded in 1969, play at Silver Street, the former home of now defunct Irlam Town FC. This club was dissolved in 1995. The present club plays in the North-west Counties Premier.
Irlam FC is nicknamed the Mitchell's or the Shack after the factory that was the base of the original club Mitchells and Shackleton, an engineering firm that made munitions for the First World and Second World Wars. The factory was sited in Patricroft, Eccles and it was from this area that was the home of Sir Edwin Roe, born 1877, who flew the first "powered flight" at Brooklands Air Field, Weybridge in Surrey. He was also the first Briton to fly a powered flight over the Hackney Marshes.
Winners in this next round, to be played on February 2nd, will earn £2250.
Other ties:
Canterbury City v Coventry Utd a club founded in 2013.
Cray Valley Paper Mills (based at Eltham) v Abbey Rangers (Combined Counties)
Histon (Eastern Counties) v Northwich Victoria (NW Counties, Cheshire)
Sholing FC
(Southampton)v Godmanchester Rovers from Cambridgeshire. Record attendance 252.
Hebburn (Northern League) v West Auckland (NL) holders of the Sr Thomas Lipton Trophy
Biggleswade FC (not Town FC!) from the Spartan South Midlands v Windsor (Hellenic League) once Windsor and Eton that folded in 2011.
Willand Rovers (Exeter based-Western League)
v Deeping Rangers from Market Deeping, Lincs (United Counties League)
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