IN the second of a series of picture articles we delve into an amazing archive of images showing a lost world - life in Herefordshire in the 1940s.

This week we get a glimpse of Herefordshire's sporting past.

The photographs were taken by Hereford businessman CH 'Tony' Williams who was a keen amateur photographer and documented life in Herefordshire in the 1940s.

You can find all of the pictures we've published so far, and more, in our Herefordshire in the 1940s gallery.

Mr Williams left his treasure trove of thousands of images with his daughter Dr Maureen Beauchamp who has kindly provided them for the Hereford Times to publish.

Her father was a precision engineer who came to Hereford from London as works manager of Barronia Metals during the Second World War. The firm made parts for aeroplanes and were relocated from London to Hereford’s Widemarsh Street after the War Ministry requisitioned the Fryers Garage premises.

Mr Williams later became a director of Bullen & Partners who published the Citizen & Bulletin in Herefordshire and he regularly took pictures of the county’s people and places for the newspaper.