City’s New Kits

Psychedelic Casual said:
City came out with some ‘St Mark’s West Gorton’ merchandise a few years ago:

www.mancity.com

Gear: The St Mark's range

Take a look at our latest pieces of City kit that you can get your hands on...
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And off the back of that things like this have sprung up:

Souvenir Shop - St Marks (West Gorton)®

St Marks (West Gorton) - The original name of Manchester City FC. Official Merchandise and the fascinating true story behind the name is here.
stmarkswestgorton.com stmarkswestgorton.com

However, I remember reading there was only ever one unconfirmed report that mentioned St Mark’s colours, which were said to be scarlet and black. But there is something else I’ve read that said Manchester Association FC’s original colours were scarlet and black. And there are no photos of the St Mark’s team or kit in any of their years of their existence.

St Mark’s became West Gorton in 1883 (they hadn’t been called ‘St Mark’s West Gorton’ and ‘St Mark’s’ was dropped, so never were). Then West Gorton merged with Belle Vue to become West Gorton AFC. Again, there are no reports of kit colours nor team photo.

Then they split again and the club became known as Gorton AFC in 1884. Around 1885 is when the famous photo in my other post was taken with the black kit with white cross pattée.

What City did with that recent merchandise above is package each of St Mark’s, West Gorton, the West Gorton and Belle Vue merged West Gorton AFC, and Gorton AFC as one and the same, calling them ‘St Mark’s West Gorton’ and using Gorton AFC’s black kit and white cross pattée as the logo… numerous clubs conflated as one.

1. St Marks: unknown founding date - 1883 (no known kit colours)
2. West Gorton: 1883 (no known kit colours)
3. West Gorton AFC (West Gorton and Belle Vue merger): 1883-1884 (no known kit colours)
4. Gorton AFC: 1884-1887 (famous black kit with white cross pattée)
4 i. Belle Vue split from West Gorton AFC: 1884
5. Ardwick AFC: 1887-1894 (Sky+white halves or Sky+navy halves)
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I've never heard them referred to as St. Marks West Gorton. The West Gorton used in brackets as in St. Mark's (West Gorton) was just a way of denoting the location. Locations were often noted in brackets, probably to distinguish them from other similarly named places, for example St. Marks (Ashton).
 
coolcity said:
I've never heard them referred to as St. Marks West Gorton. The West Gorton used in brackets as in St. Mark's (West Gorton) was just a way of denoting the location. Locations were often noted in brackets, probably to distinguish them from other similarly named places, for example St. Marks (Ashton).
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Good point. But my point was mainly about Gorton AFC’s kit being used for St Mark’s name when nobody knows what St Mark’s kit was.
 
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