Description:The Midlands Hockey Team for the 1908-09 season. A photograph from the back of a dinner menu, held at the Midland Hotel, Birmingham 27th February 1909.
Back row (left to right): Thomas Burman (umpire), A.D. Stocks, E.W. Page, H.I Wood, J.N. Burns, E.L. Goodman, E.H. Wedgwood, H.J. Greening.
Front row: C.J. Corbett, R. G. Pridmore, F.C. Stocks, H.J. Goodwin, T.S. Stafford, W.H. Twigg.
Walter Hanbury Twigg was born at Weeping Cross on 6 May 1883. He was educated at Repton School and at Kings College, University of London and trained as an electrical engineer. He died in Stafford on 5 February 1963. A talented sportsman, he represented Stafford and Staffordshire at cricket and hockey, and was an England hockey international, playing for his country on 8 occasions in 1909 and 1910.