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The Hornimans Walrus and Charlton

Kap10
Kap10 Posts: 15,642
in General Charlton
I moved to Forest Hill in 1958 as a mere one year old and with the exception of 10 years when i lived oop north have been here ever since, so I was raised visiting Hornimans museum and even now if I am there I go and visit the walrus. The other day i picked up a copy of Time Out (Freebie) and they had an article on my friend and guess what he's a Charlton supporter!!! However, he has not renewed his season ticket yet (where does he sit?) so can i suggest anyone with twitter sends him a bit of encouragement @Hornimanwalrus

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  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,769
    I used to love going there as a kid.
  • LouisMend
    LouisMend Posts: 5,488
    That is hilarious. My gf lives in Forest Hill and we've talked about that Walrus a couple of times because I saw it when it was at the Turner in Margate last year and then we saw it at the Hornimans the other day.

    She's going to be gutted he's a Charlton Walrus and not a Spurs one.
  • Brendan_O_Connell
    Brendan_O_Connell Posts: 8,938
    I thought most Walrus's supported Millwall.

    Mind you most Walrus's are pretty intelligent so that can't really be true.
  • C_A_F_C
    C_A_F_C Posts: 3,878
    Move over Jim Davidson.
  • JWADDICK
    JWADDICK Posts: 846
    If I remember correctly this is the Walrus that many moons ago took pride of place in the Hornimans Museum which was in a glass case with a plaque which read,
    " Walrus - Badly Stuffed".

    I'm not surprised that it's a Charlton Fan with that kind of provenance :)
  • addickfanatic
    addickfanatic Posts: 1,113
    I was born in Forest Hill and lived just down the road from Hornimans and used to spent a lot of time there, loved everything about it, but that Walrus is now seriously top of the pile, even if it is badly stuffed.
  • Kap10
    Kap10 Posts: 15,642
    JWADDICK said:

    If I remember correctly this is the Walrus that many moons ago took pride of place in the Hornimans Museum which was in a glass case with a plaque which read,
    " Walrus - Badly Stuffed".

    I'm not surprised that it's a Charlton Fan with that kind of provenance :)

    He is still there, taken in January.

    The "stuffing issue" was that the taxidermist had never seen a walrus and did not know that they were naturally wrinkled so stuffed the wrinkles away!!

  • addickfanatic
    addickfanatic Posts: 1,113
    Kap10 said:

    JWADDICK said:

    If I remember correctly this is the Walrus that many moons ago took pride of place in the Hornimans Museum which was in a glass case with a plaque which read,
    " Walrus - Badly Stuffed".

    I'm not surprised that it's a Charlton Fan with that kind of provenance :)

    He is still there, taken in January.

    The "stuffing issue" was that the taxidermist had never seen a walrus and did not know that they were naturally wrinkled so stuffed the wrinkles away!!

    I think I might need a bit of work from that taxidermist, I wonder if he works on the living
  • limeygent
    limeygent Posts: 3,219
    addickfanatic said:

    I was born in Forest Hill and lived just down the road from Hornimans and used to spent a lot of time there, loved everything about it, but that Walrus is now seriously top of the pile, even if it is badly stuffed.

    That was one of my favourite places to go as a kid, too. Grew up on Benson Road.

  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,495
    I worked there in the Geology department as a kid on Saturdays cataloguing fossils. It was the best job I ever had - I got paid in tea and biscuits, and had free run of the museum. I was 10. Awesome.

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  • legaladdick
    legaladdick Posts: 1,808
    I bet they STILL haven't repaired the 'Apostles' clock though.
  • Weegie Addick
    Weegie Addick Posts: 16,693
    Excellent spot, Kap. Wonder if the walrus will now go for East stand block A?
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,458
    Sat two rows in front of him in the West Upper in my season ticket days. You could tell he was only there for Prem football, I had a suspicion he was a Scouser, smelt of fish and sported the prerequisite tache.
  • Kap10
    Kap10 Posts: 15,642
    Weegie Addick said:

    Excellent spot, Kap. Wonder if the walrus will now go for East stand block A?

    I'll tweet him
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,964
    I passed the article on to the press dept. at The Valley so hopefully they can make some publicity out of it.
  • mattaddick
    mattaddick Posts: 656
    I can't tell you how delighted I am that someone else has posted something referring to walruses (or should that be walri?) I posted the below after the defeat at Bramall Lane when someone asked what else went wrong that weekend:


    "I had an appalling sexual encounter with a lady nearer 50 than 40. It was like two crippled walruses fighting each other for supremacy of their rock."
  • Mosscat
    Mosscat Posts: 197
    my daughter volunteers at the Hornimans on sundays and told me she found an old charlton scarf and hat in a cupboard there. now we know it belongs to the walrus.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,512
    Olly Groome ‏@ollygroome 42m
    Just interviewed @HornimanWalrus for Valley Review. Look out for it in the Yeovil programme. THE best Fan Focus to date #cafc
  • Kap10
    Kap10 Posts: 15,642
    Henry Irving said:

    Olly Groome ‏@ollygroome 42m
    Just interviewed @HornimanWalrus for Valley Review. Look out for it in the Yeovil programme. THE best Fan Focus to date #cafc

    Brilliant, I may even buy a program for that.
  • Miserableoldgit
    Miserableoldgit Posts: 21,458
    Henry Irving said:

    Olly Groome ‏@ollygroome 42m
    Just interviewed @HornimanWalrus for Valley Review. Look out for it in the Yeovil programme. THE best Fan Focus to date #cafc

    Did He say much ?

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