Turton threatened to scratch the tie because of the expense of travelling to Lincolnshire,[6] but did turn up and won easily.

[7] The club was a founder member of the Lincolnshire Football Association in 1881,[8] and entered the FA Cup a second time.

at Bramall Lane, in front of a crowd of 70–80, reduced by rain and a match so one-sided that Sheffield swapped out their goalkeeper after the fifth goal.

[10] Later in the 1881–82 season the club lost to Barton Town in the first round of the first Lincolnshire Senior Cup.

Britannia remained in existence as an amateur club - in 1889, turning down overtures from Brigg Town to merge[13] - until the outbreak of World War 1, playing in the Lincolnshire Shield for amateur clubs and the Barton & District League, and fixtures are reported until September 1913.