Otley Town AFC would like to thank all of our sponsors who help to ensure that we can continue to provide our community with football for all ages from 6 to Veterans.

We will have a Sponsor of the Day feature to thank individual sponsors for their loyalty and support to the Club over the past season.

Opportunities are still available to sponsor Otley Town AFC, to get involved, please contact sponsorship@otleytown.com

Thank you for your support.

Today's Sponsor of the Day is Althams

About Althams Travel - In business for over 140 years ...

Originally founded in 1874 by Abraham Altham, and trading under his name, the Company had 60 shops by 1880, selling groceries and hardware. Abraham Altham then became a Limited Company in 1894. Abraham Altham died at the age of 44 in 1886.

In addition, Althams were well known as Tea Merchants, having their own five brands of tea, all blended and packed under the Althams’ label. Customers buying the best brands were given tea cheques valued at 2d, 4d or 1/~. In later years, 2/6d and 5/~ tea cheques were added to the range: these tea cheques could be put towards the cost of Rail tickets which were sold in many of our branches as early as 1876.

From 1876, Althams used to run their own Railway Excursions from Lancashire and Yorkshire towns to seaside resorts on the West Coast.

From 1944, the Company’s name was changed to ‘Althams Stores Limited’ and over the years a small number of self contained Travel Offices were opened in local towns such as Accrington, Burnley, Bury, Halifax and Nelson. The majority of the stores had a travel counter, but up to the early 1960’s the Travel Department was still the ‘poor relation’ of the Company.