The 1920-21 season was a good one for Elstree Football Club, they were league champions and their fancy dress dance helped them break-even.

After a fascinating book detailing the fortunes of Elstree FC between 1919 and 1923, was donated to the Elstree and Boreham Wood Museum, volunteers are appealing for anyone with more information about the team to come forward.

There were three Elstree FC teams in the period after the First World War, with the first XI playing in the mid-Herts league.

From the records kept by Thomas James, which include photos, newspaper cuttings, match reports, even club finances donated to the museum by his daughter Joan from Clarendon Road it seems that the 1920-21 season was Elstree's most successful.

They topped the Mid-Herts Division Two B section, ahead of Radlett on goal difference, with F Hunt finishing as top scorer with 25 goals in 22 games. This meant an overall division two championship decider against Batford at St Albans in front of a crowd of 300.

Despite brave defence, Elstree wearing their usual red and black halves lost 1-0 to an extra-time Batford winner. Instead of medals for winning their league, Elstree got a cash windfall of £3 10s from league funds.

They also claimed transport expenses for taking an injured player home, but the league refused to fork out the money fearing a precedent would be set.

It is not clear where the team played its home matches but in January 1921 a match report for the game against Caxtonians bemoaned the swampy pitch.

"The heavy ground in front of goal prevented good judgement in shooting and although the Elstree forwards tried hard, they invariably shot wide of the mark."

Two weeks later the sloped pitch hadn't improved for the local derby with Boreham Wood Reserves in which Elstree ran out 4-0 winners.

After the game, however, Elstree's capable half-back, J Crawley, had a "nasty accident whilst changing" which, it was reported, would rule him out for the rest of the season.

Elstree found life in division one, after their promotion season, rather more difficult. They managed just one point and one goal in the first seven games. Thankfully their form improved after Christmas and they ended the season with a respectable eight wins and two draws.

Peter Parkins, whose father Albert played for the team, was surprised to discover that a number of his uncles did as well. "I knew my father played for Elstree but I didn't know all my uncles did too," he said.

If you have any information about the team, such as when it started, where they played or when and why they folded, please contact the museum on 020 8953 3391.