Crowd of men, women & children gathered in the street to listen to a football match being broadcast on the radio at Red Row, Northumberland, c1920/30s. A radio speaker is sticking out of the window of Belle Vue House (on the left of the image). A diagram showing a football pitch divided into numbered squares is on display in the left hand window of Coxon's shop. The crowd is mostly made up of men in flat caps, with a woman & several girls & boys also in the audience. The first live radio broadcast of a football game took place on 22 Jan 1927 with a match between Arsenal & Sheffield United

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Size: 2249px × 1652px
Location: Red Row, Northumberland, UK
Photo credit: © SocialHistoryImages / Alamy / Afripics
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