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Whitehill Welfare F.C. is a football club currently playing in the East of Scotland Football League. Founded in 1953, they play their home matches at Ferguson Park in the village of Rosewell.

The earliest records of Whitehill Welfare indicate that the team first appeared in season 1905/06 under the name Rosewell Rosedale, replacing the defunct Rosedale Rovers, and playing in the Midlothian Juvenile League. The highlight of this team’s life, it appears, was to reach the Scottish Juvenile Cup Final, and an incident in August 1939 where the police investigated an attack on the Rosewell goalkeeper, accused of letting the side down during a 10-2 defeat!

Although Rosedale continued operating until 1957, it was in 1953 that Whitehill Welfare FC was formed, the founding fathers being a group of employees from the now defunct Whitehill Colliery, Rosewell. In the early years, Whitehill were the chopping block for the more fancied clubs. Although reaching the Scottish Juvenile Cup semi-final in 1959, they did not really come to the fore until 1964 when they won every trophy in the Mid and East Lothian Section Juvenile League.

By 1979 there were only six Juvenile clubs left in Whitehill’s

Source: Freebase – The World's Database
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Some club information was provided, with permission, by Brian McColl.