“They won`t last five minutes, let alone seven days.” “Axminster doesn`t need two teams.” “They won`t even finish the Season.” Comments that were made at the time of Millwey Rise AFC`s formation.
The Club is now 65 years old this year but literally, the grassroots of the Club were planted much earlier in the days when youngsters played football around the vacant US Army Hospital buildings where many families had moved in as 'squatters' during the mid 1940's. Henry Trenchard, Perce Downton, Geoff Vicary, Dick Sturch were only a few of the many locals who cut their footballing teeth here.
Axminster Town FC, who played at Sector, was the nearest football team and most of Millwey's youngsters played there until it was decided at the Trout Inn (under the auspices of the Landlord Bernard Hiscox et al) to form their own team in 1958.
In their first season, the side played in Div.2 of the Perry Street League topping the division and winning all the Cups that went with it. The foundations were laid, on which the success of the current Club is built.
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