A quartet of meetings in Isthmian League Division Two North is the sum total of the time Boro’ spent in tandem with Collier Row. A quirk of fate meant the club first played in the division for the two seasons in the mid-1980s that we were in Division One. As we came back down, they went up. And so it’d be the 1989-90 season that we finally found each other on the same page. The direction in which the Essex side then went in the 1990s would be more down than up, before it ceased to exist after a 1996 merger with Romford.
A new club with the same name emerged on the scene. But we’re not sure if they’ve lasted the course…
