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Photos of The Valley

BDLBDL
edited September 2012 in General Charlton
Sorry if there is already a thread (Couldn't find one though).

Found this print whilst going through some old photos, so I thought I'd share it with all.

It was taken, by me, circa 1984/85.

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  • Wonderful picture BDL. So many memories of the old ground. Thanks.
  • Great pic.

    Were you up in a balloon or something at the time?
  • He's not known as Big Dave Lockwood for nothing...
  • DOWN THE OLD VALLEY!!!!!!
  • Off_it said:

    Great pic.

    Were you up in a balloon or something at the time?

    Or have ******* long legs!
  • Jeez.

    Look at those pot holes!
  • Great picture. Thanks for posting.
  • Love this pic. Real memory jogger. Can see the garden we used to hop through.
  • Excellent photograph, I bet there are some real gems like these that fans have......
    One of the ideas that the supporters trust is working on is to get an online digital archive like this. There are several people on this site that I am sure would be capable to assist in this. Photographs are a unique moment in time that shows so much of the history and local connection that the club has with the community.
    Fingers crossed.
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  • Here is one that I discoverd...... on the getty site
    I do not own the copyright.
  • BDLBDL
    edited September 2012
    I was on a pleasure flight from Biggin Hill, my aim was take take a pic of my house but the Pilot went the wrong side of Shooters Hill and we ended up circling over the Valley.

    Found it in a shoebox in the loft, so I thought I'd share it.

    I love the idea of a photo archive, I'd be very willing to get involved Ken. I have some photos of the East stand being constructed somewhere.
  • Mile high club by any chance BDL?
  • How did you get one of your shoe boxes through the loft hatch?

  • I'm not even sure how you got your shoe in the door:

    image

    Super Valley pic btw.
  • The old away end, taken from East Bank
  • Definitely the Valley…Before the Jimmy Seed Stand went up…
  • Now we have to name the players, my guess Arthur Horsfield taking the penalty, top to bottom,?, Richie Bowman, Peter Hunt, Dave Shipperly and Dick Tydman.
  • very nice photo Callum
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  • edited December 2013
    That terracing behind the goal Callum used to go back much higher than that and I believe was sold off to enable the residential development (block of flats) in the 1984/5 photo at the top of the thread to be built. On the player front Shipperley is the one bending over front right foreground and behind him on the other side of the 'D' is Horsfield I reckon. Looks like Bowman and next to him Colin Powell? The penalty taker could be Hales.
    Edit: Forgot to mention the raised grass area and goalposts behind the corner flag in the background which was a waste area, as far back as I can remember in the early sixties, used for shooting / penalty practice in training.
  • edited December 2013
    Proper old Skool photos,like them. I'd take the old valley over the new one for sure just for the nostalgia value, bet there were a few fights back on the terraces in those days.
  • The ref in the picture is Ronald Bryan from Worksop, my Mother-in-law's uncle, by marriage.
  • If it was 1974 could the penalty taker be the late great Bobby Curtis. That photo was taken from roughly where I used to stand on the east terrace. Good memories.
  • I remember the highlight [as a kid]in those days was a kick about at half time on that grass bank.
  • edited December 2013
    So, what we got so far:

    Match at The Valley,
    In, or around, 1974,
    Bobby Curtis penalty,
    players (we think) are Ship, King Arthur, Bowman & Hunt,
    Ref was Ronald Bryan from Worksop (you sure #Riviera ?).

    Will check Mr Cameron's Home and Away book.
  • The large shed on the right above the crowd was the supporters club hut.
  • So, what we got so far:

    Match at The Valley,
    In, or around, 1974,
    Bobby Curtis penalty,
    players (we think) are Ship, King Arthur, Bowman & Hunt,
    Ref was Ronald Bryan from Worksop (you sure Riv ?).

    Will check Mr Cameron's Home and Away book.

    Away team in blue, try Oldham 4-1 home win 26/3/74 as a long shot.
  • RedChaser said:

    So, what we got so far:

    Match at The Valley,
    In, or around, 1974,
    Bobby Curtis penalty,
    players (we think) are Ship, King Arthur, Bowman & Hunt,
    Ref was Ronald Bryan from Worksop (you sure Riv ?).

    Will check Mr Cameron's Home and Away book.

    Away team in blue, try Oldham 4-1 home win 26/3/74 as a long shot.
    No penalty in that one (Powell, Horsfield (2), Flanagan),
    No Curtis (Penfold & Tumbridge full-backs),
    Ref was TW Dawes from Norwich.

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