Saw Frankie Howerd back in the '50s in a midnight charity show at the Lewisham Gaumont to raise funds for families bereaved by the Lewisham train crash. He was the highlight without doubt. Winifred Atwell was supposed to be the headline act but never turned up.
As a matter of interest Frankie died the day before Benny Hill. Two funny men.
Born 25 March 1895 in Blackhill, a small mining village nearConsett, County Durham Died in Farborough Hospital on 16 July 1966 aged 71.
Jimmy Seed the player was spotted by Sunderland in April 1914 and was being tipped for a first team slot when war broke out. He was badly gassed while serving on the front line, an injury which scuppered his career at Roker Park but in 1920 he joined Spurs and spent seven fine years there before enjoying success at Sheffield Wednesday. He was Manager at Clapton Orient before accepting the Charlton job in 1933 (Charlton Athletic on this Day by Matthew Eastley).
Between 1933 and 1936 he led Charlton to successive promotions from the Third Division to the First Division where they minis he'd runners up to Manchester City in 1937. Under Seed Charlton reached two wartime Cup Finals at Wembley and he was in charge for the 1946 and 1947 Finals.
Ironically, it was after an 8-1 pasting at Roker Park that Jimmy Seed was sacked. He paid the ultimate price for Charlton's lack of ambition and investment - in the Valley, in players, and in the future. The attitude doc the directors is summed up by chairman Stanley Gliksten, who commented after Seed had been thwarted in his attempt to buy England's finest footballer - "A good job we didn't buy Matthews. It would have been money down the drain" (Charlton Athletic - a nostalgic look at a century of the club by Michael Walsh).
As a matter of interest Frankie died the day before Benny Hill. Two funny men.
@Blackheathen Only just caught up with this thread and when I saw this I didn't believe it, so I looked it up to check. And yes, you're absolutely right. Funny how your memory plays tricks on you - I could've sworn Benny Hill died in the eighties and I had Frankie Howerd as passing in the late 90s/early 2000s. But no, both April 1992.
CHARLIE VAUGHAN Born 23 April 1921 at Camberwell Died 1989 age 68
Played 227 games for Charlton between 1946-53 before moving to Portsmouth for one season (26 appearances and 14 goals).
Charlie Vaughan scored a record 91 goals for Charlton in football's top flight. He caused palpitations in the Arsenal defence on 19 November 1949 when the Addicks won at Highbury for the first time. Billy Kiernan and Gordon Hurst scored the other goals and Vaughan added the decisive goal in a 3-2 Charlton win (Charlton Athletic - A nostalgic look at a century of the club).
Vaughan was not the archetypal bulldozer number 9 of the Nat Lofthouse era. Author, literary critic and some-time Charlton supporter David Lodge ascribed to him "a certain chivalric quality. .. Slight in build for a centre forward, with a beaky rather aristocratic face which usually bore an expression of amused detachment from the passions and struggles of the game swirling around him" - (from the same book)
COLIN CAMERON Born in Farnborough Hospital on 23 March 1940
He became Charlton's official historian for nearly 40 years and one of the club's most devoted supporters. He started following Charlton in 1947, the year we won the Cup.
Mr Cameron suffered a stroke early December 2015 and had a relapse on Christmas Eve. He died the following day in Queen Elizabeth Hospital. The Valley faithful held a minute's applause before the game against Ipswich on Boxing Day as a mark of respect.
COLIN CAMERON Born in Farnborough Hospital on 23 March 1940
He became Charlton's official historian for nearly 40 years and one of the club's most devoted supporters. He started following Charlton in 1947, the year we won the Cup.
Mr Cameron suffered a stroke early December 2015 and had a relapse on Christmas Eve. He died the following day in Queen Elizabeth Hospital. The Valley faithful held a minute's applause before the game against Ipswich on Boxing Day as a mark of respect.
Spot the artists deliberate mistake haha
Got me months mixed up, this should have been a month ago
STUART LEARY Born 30 April 1933 at Capetown, South Africa Died in Capetown on 23 August 1988, aged 55
Stuart Leary is a worthy candidate for finest player ever to wear the Charlton shirt. As an all-round sportsman, a Kent cricketer of distinction, the South African had few equals. Charlton historian Colin Cameron described him as "a footballing genius".
He remains the Addicks' record league marksman with 153 goals. He played for the England Under 23s alongside Busby-babe Duncan Edwards but could not. Are the top England side because his father was not English.
His 403-game Charlton career came to an unfortunate end with a falling out with Manager Frank Hill and he was sold to QPR. His cricketing career continued - team-mates Derek Ufton and Syd O'Lynn were also in the Kent side. O'Lynn hailed Leary as the cleverest footballer he knew. Colin Cowdrey, Charlton director and Kent captain, likened him to George Best many years later.
Leary's tragic end - his body was recovered from the slopes of Table Mountain after he had been missing for five days - in Capetwon remains a mystery. Along with how Charlton could possibly have let such a great player go when all he neede was a break from relentless football and cricket (from Charlton Athletic - A nostalgic look at a century of the club).
Charlton achieved their record 6-1 away win at Sam Bartram's Luton Town on 10 February 1962. Said Sam after the game: "You can forget Jimmy Greaves and Johnny Haynes. For me, Stuart Leary is the greatest forward in the game. He can dictate the course of a match by slowing it down or speeding it up to suit his team" (Charlton Athletic on this Day by Matthew Eastley)
HANS JEPPSON Born 10 May 1925 at Kungsbacka, Sweden Died in Rome on 22 February 2013 aged 87
1951 - January, February and March 9 goals in his 11 games In the short time he was with us Hans Jeppson saved us from relegation from the First Division (Premiership). His 11 games saw Charlton win seven and draw two.
Matt Wright recalled on CAFC how few players can ever have made an impact on the club more than the amateur Swedish striker. The highlight of his three-month stay in SE7 was a brilliant hat-trick against Arsenal in a 5-2 win at Highbury - their biggest home defeat in over 20 years. According to Charlton's Peter Croker, Leslie Compton - Arsenal's international centre-half - "didn't know what day of the week it was. Hans was very intelligent; like all good strikers he could see things a split second before anyone else". After the game Arsenal Manager Tom Whittaker presented Hans with the match ball with inscriptions of congratulations from him and Jimmy Seed.
After his final game - a 1-0 home defeat by Portsmouth - he was chaired to the middle of the pitch by Charlton fans. With his film star looks he was adored by fans. The Charlton Supporters Club gave him a cup inscribed "in appreciation of services and enjoyment given to supporters".
The Players - who had introduced Hans to golf - gave him a set of golf clubs. The club presented him with a dinner set as a wedding present and hired a launch (at a cost of 30 guineas) to transport him to Tilbury Docks for his journey home.
He left Charlton to conclude his studies at commercial school but he was soon playing for the Atlanta team in Italy. In 1952 he was sold to Napoli for 105 million lira - a world record transfer fee - earning him the nickname "banco e Napoletana" - Bank of Naples.
He played 12 games for Sweden scoring nine goals. His nickname in Sweden was Hasse Goldenfoot. Hans Jeppson was inducted into the Swedish Hall of Fame in 2009. He played for his national side in the 1950 FIFA Worlld Cup and scored two goals.
FRANK 'TIGER' HILL Born 21 May 1906 at Forfar, Scotland Died 26 August 1993 at Lafayette, California aged 87
Former Scottish international "Tiger" Hill was appointed Manager following the sacking of Jimmy Trotter. As a player he had won three league championship medals with Arsenal. He had managed Crew, Burnley, Preston and Notts County.
He managed Charlton between November 1961 and August 1965. Though a very astute operator in the transfer market, Hill's legacy will unfortunately be his falling out with - and then selling - the sublime Stuart Leary.
He saved Charlton from Relegation from the Second Division in 1961 - we were bottom of the table when he took over - and took the Addicks up to 4th in 1963/64. However, he could not make the good form last and he was sacked in the summer of 1965 - his final managerial appointment.
His sacking came as a complete surprise to the players who were told of the move by Chairman Michael Gliksten after training, prompting John Hewie to comment: "we had no inkling of it at all". Hill, 59, received a 625 pound pay-off.
Tiger finished his career as a scout with Manchester City before moving his wife and son to California where they owned a fish and chip shop. He referred at college level until well into his 70's.
BILLY KIERNAN Born on 22 May 1925 in Croydon Died on 3 April 2006 at Pembury at the age of 80
He was signed by Jimmy Seed as an amateur in the middle of WWII before he enlisted in the army. Seed secured his services again in 1949 and the 5'6'' winger went on to play 401 games for Charlton, scoring 93 goals. Charlton historian Colin Cameron considered Kiernan one of the finest wingmen ever to play for the club (Charlton Athletic on this Day by Matthew Eastley).
He was also a versatile mid-fielder becoming the Addick's 6th highest goal scorer with 86 goals between 1949-1961. He went on to play a couple of seasons with non-league Guildford City.
Billy was an accountant during his playing days and he kept it up after retirement as well as being an antiques dealer in Tunbridge Wells.
BERT TURNER Born Brithdir, Wales on 19 June 1909 Died at Birchington-on-sea, Kent on 8 June 1981 aged 71
Bert won eight Wales caps and when his Charlton career ended he managed Swedish club Maimonides to two league titles and two domestic cups. He was one of the stalwarts of the Charlton side which rose through the divisions in the 1930s.
Bert Turner was the first player to score for both sides in an FA Cup Final. The 1946 Final against Derby remained goalless until Turner skewed an attempted clearance past Bartram in the 85th minute. It took only a minute for the Charlton man to redeem himself with a free-kick on the edge of the penalty area. The Rams keeper appeared to have the shot well covered but a deflection off a defender sent the goalkeeper the wrong way. As well as being the first to score at both ends, Turner was also the oldest player to score in a Cup Final at 36 years and 312 days.
In 1956 he returned to England where he became a licensee in Manston, Kent until 1980.
DICK UPEX Born 26 June 1892 in Peterborough Died 22 May 1979 in Croydon aged 86
He played 19 games for Charlton in 1920-1921 scoring six goals.
He earned himself a place in the Charlton record books by scoring the club's first ever hat-trick in an FA Cup match. In September 1920, while Charlton were still a Southern League club, Upex scored three against Catford Southend in front of 3,000 fans in the FA Cup preliminary round (Charlton Athletic on this Day by Matthew Eastley)
During the First World War Dick Upex fought as a private and saw action at Vimy Ridge, Loos, Cambrai and Lens.
RALPH ALLEN Born 30 June 1906 at Newburn-on-Tyne Died on 9 May 1981 aged 74
He played a couple of seasons at Fulham and three at Brentford before shifting to Charlton for 650 pounds in 1934. He only played for us from 1934-36 but scored a pretty amazing 47 goals in 52 appearances.
He still holds the record for the most league goals scored in a season for Charlton. Ralph Allen scored 32 in just 28 games when Charlton won promotion from Division Three (South) in 1934/35 (Charlton Athletic on this Day by Matthew Eastley). The feat was all the more remarkable seeing as Allen didn't join the Addicks until October.
He went on to score goals for Reading, Northampton and Torquay before the Second World War brought his career to an early close. Altogether he scored 122 goals in 171 games.
SETH PLUM Born 15 July 1899 at Edmonton, London Died 29 November 1969 at Haringey, London aged 70
On 10 May 1923 wing-half Seth Plum became the first Charlton player to play for England, winning his one and only cap in a 4-1 victory against France at Slade Pershing, Paris**
He played 14 games for Charlton in 1923/24.
At the time of his death Seth was working as a petrol pump attendant in his home community of Tottenham.
**. Not related to Seth Plum in any way, but the following December, 1923, Charlton left the Valley because of dwindling attendances and merged with non-league neighbours Catford. Six months later, with attendances around the 1,000 mark, Charlton moved back to the Valley. Roland and Katy, please take note.
SETH PLUM Born 15 July 1899 at Edmonton, London Died 29 November 1969 at Haringey, London aged 70
On 10 May 1923 wing-half Seth Plum became the first Charlton player to play for England, winning his one and only cap in a 4-1 victory against France at Slade Pershing, Paris**
He played 14 games for Charlton in 1923/24.
At the time of his death Seth was working as a petrol pump attendant in his home community of Tottenham.
And he never did get an answer about the post brexit border in Ireland.
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As a matter of interest Frankie died the day before Benny Hill. Two funny men.
Legend
Born 25 March 1895 in Blackhill, a small mining village nearConsett, County Durham
Died in Farborough Hospital on 16 July 1966 aged 71.
Jimmy Seed the player was spotted by Sunderland in April 1914 and was being tipped for a first team slot when war broke out. He was badly gassed while serving on the front line, an injury which scuppered his career at Roker Park but in 1920 he joined Spurs and spent seven fine years there before enjoying success at Sheffield Wednesday. He was Manager at Clapton Orient before accepting the Charlton job in 1933 (Charlton Athletic on this Day by Matthew Eastley).
Between 1933 and 1936 he led Charlton to successive promotions from the Third Division to the First Division where they minis he'd runners up to Manchester City in 1937. Under Seed Charlton reached two wartime Cup Finals at Wembley and he was in charge for the 1946 and 1947 Finals.
Ironically, it was after an 8-1 pasting at Roker Park that Jimmy Seed was sacked. He paid the ultimate price for Charlton's lack of ambition and investment - in the Valley, in players, and in the future. The attitude doc the directors is summed up by chairman Stanley Gliksten, who commented after Seed had been thwarted in his attempt to buy England's finest footballer - "A good job we didn't buy Matthews. It would have been money down the drain" (Charlton Athletic - a nostalgic look at a century of the club by Michael Walsh).
A great man, a great footballer and a great manager
Funny how your memory plays tricks on you - I could've sworn Benny Hill died in the eighties and I had Frankie Howerd as passing in the late 90s/early 2000s.
But no, both April 1992.
Cogito ergo sum.
Can anyone help please?
Mentioned in despatches in World War 1.
I was lucky enough to meet him as a very young child as he lived into his eighties.
Would have been 117 today
http://forum.charltonlife.com/discussion/comment/1751206#Comment_1751206
Born 23 April 1921 at Camberwell
Died 1989 age 68
Played 227 games for Charlton between 1946-53 before moving to Portsmouth for one season (26 appearances and 14 goals).
Charlie Vaughan scored a record 91 goals for Charlton in football's top flight. He caused palpitations in the Arsenal defence on 19 November 1949 when the Addicks won at Highbury for the first time. Billy Kiernan and Gordon Hurst scored the other goals and Vaughan added the decisive goal in a 3-2 Charlton win (Charlton Athletic - A nostalgic look at a century of the club).
Vaughan was not the archetypal bulldozer number 9 of the Nat Lofthouse era. Author, literary critic and some-time Charlton supporter David Lodge ascribed to him "a certain chivalric quality. .. Slight in build for a centre forward, with a beaky rather aristocratic face which usually bore an expression of amused detachment from the passions and struggles of the game swirling around him" - (from the same book)
Born in Farnborough Hospital on 23 March 1940
He became Charlton's official historian for nearly 40 years and one of the club's most devoted supporters. He started following Charlton in 1947, the year we won the Cup.
Mr Cameron suffered a stroke early December 2015 and had a relapse on Christmas Eve. He died the following day in Queen Elizabeth Hospital. The Valley faithful held a minute's applause before the game against Ipswich on Boxing Day as a mark of respect.
Got me months mixed up, this should have been a month ago
Born 30 April 1933 at Capetown, South Africa
Died in Capetown on 23 August 1988, aged 55
Stuart Leary is a worthy candidate for finest player ever to wear the Charlton shirt. As an all-round sportsman, a Kent cricketer of distinction, the South African had few equals. Charlton historian Colin Cameron described him as "a footballing genius".
He remains the Addicks' record league marksman with 153 goals. He played for the England Under 23s alongside Busby-babe Duncan Edwards but could not. Are the top England side because his father was not English.
His 403-game Charlton career came to an unfortunate end with a falling out with Manager Frank Hill and he was sold to QPR. His cricketing career continued - team-mates Derek Ufton and Syd O'Lynn were also in the Kent side. O'Lynn hailed Leary as the cleverest footballer he knew. Colin Cowdrey, Charlton director and Kent captain, likened him to George Best many years later.
Leary's tragic end - his body was recovered from the slopes of Table Mountain after he had been missing for five days - in Capetwon remains a mystery. Along with how Charlton could possibly have let such a great player go when all he neede was a break from relentless football and cricket (from Charlton Athletic - A nostalgic look at a century of the club).
Charlton achieved their record 6-1 away win at Sam Bartram's Luton Town on 10 February 1962. Said Sam after the game: "You can forget Jimmy Greaves and Johnny Haynes. For me, Stuart Leary is the greatest forward in the game. He can dictate the course of a match by slowing it down or speeding it up to suit his team" (Charlton Athletic on this Day by Matthew Eastley)
Born 10 May 1925 at Kungsbacka, Sweden
Died in Rome on 22 February 2013 aged 87
1951 - January, February and March
9 goals in his 11 games
In the short time he was with us Hans Jeppson saved us from relegation from the First Division (Premiership). His 11 games saw Charlton win seven and draw two.
Matt Wright recalled on CAFC how few players can ever have made an impact on the club more than the amateur Swedish striker. The highlight of his three-month stay in SE7 was a brilliant hat-trick against Arsenal in a 5-2 win at Highbury - their biggest home defeat in over 20 years. According to Charlton's Peter Croker, Leslie Compton - Arsenal's international centre-half - "didn't know what day of the week it was. Hans was very intelligent; like all good strikers he could see things a split second before anyone else". After the game Arsenal Manager Tom Whittaker presented Hans with the match ball with inscriptions of congratulations from him and Jimmy Seed.
After his final game - a 1-0 home defeat by Portsmouth - he was chaired to the middle of the pitch by Charlton fans. With his film star looks he was adored by fans. The Charlton Supporters Club gave him a cup inscribed "in appreciation of services and enjoyment given to supporters".
The Players - who had introduced Hans to golf - gave him a set of golf clubs. The club presented him with a dinner set as a wedding present and hired a launch (at a cost of 30 guineas) to transport him to Tilbury Docks for his journey home.
He left Charlton to conclude his studies at commercial school but he was soon playing for the Atlanta team in Italy. In 1952 he was sold to Napoli for 105 million lira - a world record transfer fee - earning him the nickname "banco e Napoletana" - Bank of Naples.
He played 12 games for Sweden scoring nine goals. His nickname in Sweden was Hasse Goldenfoot. Hans Jeppson was inducted into the Swedish Hall of Fame in 2009. He played for his national side in the 1950 FIFA Worlld Cup and scored two goals.
Born 21 May 1906 at Forfar, Scotland
Died 26 August 1993 at Lafayette, California aged 87
Former Scottish international "Tiger" Hill was appointed Manager following the sacking of Jimmy Trotter. As a player he had won three league championship medals with Arsenal. He had managed Crew, Burnley, Preston and Notts County.
He managed Charlton between November 1961 and August 1965. Though a very astute operator in the transfer market, Hill's legacy will unfortunately be his falling out with - and then selling - the sublime Stuart Leary.
He saved Charlton from Relegation from the Second Division in 1961 - we were bottom of the table when he took over - and took the Addicks up to 4th in 1963/64. However, he could not make the good form last and he was sacked in the summer of 1965 - his final managerial appointment.
His sacking came as a complete surprise to the players who were told of the move by Chairman Michael Gliksten after training, prompting John Hewie to comment: "we had no inkling of it at all". Hill, 59, received a 625 pound pay-off.
Tiger finished his career as a scout with Manchester City before moving his wife and son to California where they owned a fish and chip shop. He referred at college level until well into his 70's.
Born on 22 May 1925 in Croydon
Died on 3 April 2006 at Pembury at the age of 80
He was signed by Jimmy Seed as an amateur in the middle of WWII before he enlisted in the army. Seed secured his services again in 1949 and the 5'6'' winger went on to play 401 games for Charlton, scoring 93 goals. Charlton historian Colin Cameron considered Kiernan one of the finest wingmen ever to play for the club (Charlton Athletic on this Day by Matthew Eastley).
He was also a versatile mid-fielder becoming the Addick's 6th highest goal scorer with 86 goals between 1949-1961. He went on to play a couple of seasons with non-league Guildford City.
Billy was an accountant during his playing days and he kept it up after retirement as well as being an antiques dealer in Tunbridge Wells.
Born Brithdir, Wales on 19 June 1909
Died at Birchington-on-sea, Kent on 8 June 1981 aged 71
Bert won eight Wales caps and when his Charlton career ended he managed Swedish club Maimonides to two league titles and two domestic cups. He was one of the stalwarts of the Charlton side which rose through the divisions in the 1930s.
Bert Turner was the first player to score for both sides in an FA Cup Final. The 1946 Final against Derby remained goalless until Turner skewed an attempted clearance past Bartram in the 85th minute. It took only a minute for the Charlton man to redeem himself with a free-kick on the edge of the penalty area. The Rams keeper appeared to have the shot well covered but a deflection off a defender sent the goalkeeper the wrong way. As well as being the first to score at both ends, Turner was also the oldest player to score in a Cup Final at 36 years and 312 days.
In 1956 he returned to England where he became a licensee in Manston, Kent until 1980.
Born 26 June 1892 in Peterborough
Died 22 May 1979 in Croydon aged 86
He played 19 games for Charlton in 1920-1921 scoring six goals.
He earned himself a place in the Charlton record books by scoring the club's first ever hat-trick in an FA Cup match. In September 1920, while Charlton were still a Southern League club, Upex scored three against Catford Southend in front of 3,000 fans in the FA Cup preliminary round (Charlton Athletic on this Day by Matthew Eastley)
During the First World War Dick Upex fought as a private and saw action at Vimy Ridge, Loos, Cambrai and Lens.
Born 30 June 1906 at Newburn-on-Tyne
Died on 9 May 1981 aged 74
He played a couple of seasons at Fulham and three at Brentford before shifting to Charlton for 650 pounds in 1934. He only played for us from 1934-36 but scored a pretty amazing 47 goals in 52 appearances.
He still holds the record for the most league goals scored in a season for Charlton. Ralph Allen scored 32 in just 28 games when Charlton won promotion from Division Three (South) in 1934/35 (Charlton Athletic on this Day by Matthew Eastley). The feat was all the more remarkable seeing as Allen didn't join the Addicks until October.
He went on to score goals for Reading, Northampton and Torquay before the Second World War brought his career to an early close. Altogether he scored 122 goals in 171 games.
The sort of forward we can but dream of.
Born 15 July 1899 at Edmonton, London
Died 29 November 1969 at Haringey, London aged 70
On 10 May 1923 wing-half Seth Plum became the first Charlton player to play for England, winning his one and only cap in a 4-1 victory against France at Slade Pershing, Paris**
He played 14 games for Charlton in 1923/24.
At the time of his death Seth was working as a petrol pump attendant in his home community of Tottenham.
**. Not related to Seth Plum in any way, but the following December, 1923, Charlton left the Valley because of dwindling attendances and merged with non-league neighbours Catford. Six months later, with attendances around the 1,000 mark, Charlton moved back to the Valley. Roland and Katy, please take note.