History
The game of Association Football was introduced to the town’s people of Llanelli when workers from Staffordshire migrated to the town to work in the ‘newest’ of the town industries – the Pottery works from 1892 to 1920. Finding the game of rugby Football Union alien to their natural habitat whilst domiciled in the town, workers founded a team to play friendlies verses other teams from the various pottery works industry which had been set up in Swansea and Neath. However, by 1896 interest had waned due in the main to those initial workers returning to their homesteads having successfully instructed their local co-workers into the intricacies of the pottery world. The first playing area had been at ‘Cae Blake’ in the Furnace area of the town, but when the new Peoples Park in the middle of the town was opened as a recreation area for the town’s populace the team had transferred to this new ground. By 1904 with more and more clubs being formed in the south of the principality ardent soccerities decided to resurrect the club under the astute managership of Bert Andrews, a man from Ironbridge who had remained in the town working in an administrative post at the Llanelli Pottery. The club entered into the Swansea and District League and played their home matches firstly at Tunnel Road and thence to Penyfan Fields.
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