Ilford Football Club founded as a village team, compete at a ground on the site of today’s Town Hall.

First silverware, in form of coveted Essex Senior Cup. The club still holds record of 13 triumphs in this competition.

Ilford resign from Southern League and are replaced by Tottenham Hotspur.

Ilford secure a lease on new Lynn Road site -to be the club’s ground for next 73 years.

Club embarks on first continental tour -and is watched by members of Danish Royal Family during

Three Ilford players return from Stockholm Olympics with gold medals. Captain Joe Dines promptly signs for Liverpool.

Dines is killed by enemy machine gunfire in one of the very last battles on the Western Front.

Ilford secure first of back-to-back Isthmian League titles and are invited to Spain to compete against FC Barcelona. The club plays twice against the Catalan giants, drawing once.

Ilford play 3rd and 4th tour matches vs Barcelona. As the latter ends at 2-2, police enter the field of play with revolvers and drawn bayonets to contain rioters among an irate crowd of 30,000.

Ilford beat Ajax 3-1 in Amsterdam with teenage striker Jack Rutherford scoring a hattrick. (The player would become the grandfather of Olympic Long-Jump champion, Greg Rutherford).

Ilford tarnish their reputation, taking on Wimbledon FC in another tour match in Amsterdam. The clubs plan to ease fixture congestion by passing the game off as a League match (but get found out!).

A second successive FAAC triumph is celebrated with wild scenes around the town and civic receptions are held in the Town Hall and at the House of Commons.

Edgar Porter, associated with Ilford FC for 48 years as both player and official dies in mysterious circumstances when falling from a London-bound train at Maryland.

Flying winger and England Youth international, Ernie Braund, is killed when the Spitfire he is piloting crashes on a training flight in Yorkshire.

In the competition proper Lynn Road hosts a 1st Round tie between France and India, attracting a crowd of over 17,000. The game is India’s first international post-Independence in 1947.

Lynn Road hosts two international matches as part of the build-up to the London Olympics. England vs France and England vs Luxembourg between them draw around 30,000 paying customers.

Ilford lead Norwich City in the FA Cup at Carrow Road for 80 minutes, before going down 3-1. Norwich now beat Spurs and Man Utd(3-0) enroute to the semi-final.

71,000 fans witness Ilford’s 4th FAAC Final appearance vs Woking, at Wembley Stadium. Having squandered early chances Ilford are humbled 3-0.

With dwindling gates and uncertain finances, Ilford sign Spurs duo Alan Gilzean and Phil Beal. Their stay is a brief one, while rumours of a takeover by media celebrity David Frost fail to materialize.

Poignantly, Ilford fight their way to Wembley, appearing in the last-ever FAAC Final against Bishops Stortford. Only 30,000 die-hards bear witness to a game of poor quality beneath the Twin Towers.

Bulldozers descend upon Lynn Road and the 900-seater grandstand is dismantled pending its re-location to the promised new purpose-built stadium at Fairlop. The feted move is a sham.

Start of a succession of mergers herald the death of Ilford FC (along with Walthamstow Avenue and Leytonstone) and ultimately catapult Dagenham and Redbridge into the Football League.

Spurred on by a flurry of media interest (and a noisy public meeting in the Town Hall), Ilford FC is reformed by original fans and club officials. It now embarks on a frenetic eight year campaign directed at Redbridge Council, to secure a home base in the town.

The club finally wins tenancy rights at its original target (Cricklefield Stadium) and begins the process of developing an infrastructure in line with requirements for senior semi-pro football.

The club forms Ilford Sports Club as its commercial arm and works to develop partnerships among sporting and other groups in the community.

ISC is awarded a Lottery Sports Fund grant to build a two-tier clubhouse with 2nd phase changing accommodation.

Ilford FC wins its first modern silverware, an Isthmian (Ryman) League and Cup double.

The club re-appoints respected coach, Martin Haywood, for his 2nd spell with the club.