Now the club had a permanent home they instituted a new honour, that of granting Life Membership in recognition of services to the club over and beyond the usual. The first (and second) people to receive this accolade were EL Mucklow and Ian Proctor who had both played a big part in the building of the London Road facility. In a playing sense Mucklow had been part of the formidable forward pack that had played in the club’s first full season in 1926 whilst Proctor had played in the pre-war years and would go on to play for the first team at the age of 50!.
