nothing overly meaningful but I took a snapshot earlier of the first 3,000 visitors to CL today.
Sunday is always the least visited day of a week, but should give a better concentration of people being at home / local area as opposed to skewed by work.
Global breakdown - UK 87.9%, USA 1.7%, Australia 1.1%, Spain 0.7%, Ireland, 0.6%, Canada 0.5%, France 0.4%
UK Breakdown (country)- England 97.3%, Wales 1.2%, Scotland 1%, NI 0.5%
On the train back up after Wembley, i was surprised there were quite a few Charlton fans getting off the train at Stockport Station. So there's at least 10 of us up here
Ashford (TN23) for me, and there are a few of us here, after Wembley I was walking the dog and could hear "Allez Allez Allez" being sung in someone's garden.
Ashford (TN23) for me, and there are a few of us here, after Wembley I was walking the dog and could hear "Allez Allez Allez" being sung in someone's garden.
Must be quite a few in the TN postcode area....it's a pretty big area I'm TN35.
On the train back up after Wembley, i was surprised there were quite a few Charlton fans getting off the train at Stockport Station. So there's at least 10 of us up here
On my way up now. That'll be 11 for a couple of days then
Have met a surprisingly decent number in Madrid over the years and a fair few Spanish remember us from the Premier days although many seem to confuse us with Cheltenham!
We seem to be spread far and wide with northern outposts such as Stockport , Yorkshire and Knebworth
I'm sure this reflects the increased mobility of families over the past 50 years.
For centuries my paternal ancestors were firmly rooted in Thanet, mainly working as Ag Labs, until attracted to SE London to the shipyards where they built lighters and Thames barges. As that industry dwindled their children became leather workers, and when employment was short they took their skills to Germany, and later to Leeds, to earn enough to live - but still returned "home" to SE London when prospects there improved. I'm sure a similar pattern was true for many of our families, with blips for the 2 world wars and right through to the second half of the 20th century.
Perhaps fuelled by the massive increase in numbers of young people going into further & higher education in the 1960s onwards, I think lots of people then started to look beyond their immediate neighbourhoods for work, even abroad. And many of us took with us our love of Charlton. This may not have been initially apparent in the way that is now revealed by membership stats for this forum. The internet has certainly revolutionised ways of staying in touch while living at a distance!
If we're talking "absolute" number of Charlton fans I guess that the London Borough of Greenwich and the Annexed Borough of Kentish Bexley would be at the top of the list.
If, on the other hand, we're talking "concentration" in terms of Addicks per 1000 population then I think the Kingdom of East Anglia must be fairly high up; there are plenty of Addicks in a not-very-populated part of the world, especially here amongst the North Folk. Judging by the cars I see on the Newmarket bypass on match days there seem to be a fair few living over the border with the South Folk.
I live on the Peninsula and find it a bit depressing that most of the kids in my neighbourhood wear the usual Arsenal, Man United, Chelsea and Real Madrid shirts. I do see a few people in Charlton shirts around on match days though.
If we're talking "absolute" number of Charlton fans I guess that the London Borough of Greenwich and the Annexed Borough of Kentish Bexley would be at the top of the list.
If, on the other hand, we're talking "concentration" in terms of Addicks per 1000 population then I think the Kingdom of East Anglia must be fairly high up; there are plenty of Addicks in a not-very-populated part of the world, especially here amongst the North Folk. Judging by the cars I see on the Newmarket bypass on match days there seem to be a fair few living over the border with the South Folk.
Are you implying that our fathers could be our brothers / sister's our mother's etc etc. an all then?
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Otherwise I would have been London NW11
been about a bit
Also been about a bit
Had a few years in exile, but now back in SE7.
Having been born in Lewisham I am forever grateful that Dad chose Charlton to bring the young KB for his first introduction to live football.
Things could have been very different!
I'm sure this reflects the increased mobility of families over the past 50 years.
For centuries my paternal ancestors were firmly rooted in Thanet, mainly working as Ag Labs, until attracted to SE London to the shipyards where they built lighters and Thames barges. As that industry dwindled their children became leather workers, and when employment was short they took their skills to Germany, and later to Leeds, to earn enough to live - but still returned "home" to SE London when prospects there improved. I'm sure a similar pattern was true for many of our families, with blips for the 2 world wars and right through to the second half of the 20th century.
Perhaps fuelled by the massive increase in numbers of young people going into further & higher education in the 1960s onwards, I think lots of people then started to look beyond their immediate neighbourhoods for work, even abroad. And many of us took with us our love of Charlton. This may not have been initially apparent in the way that is now revealed by membership stats for this forum. The internet has certainly revolutionised ways of staying in touch while living at a distance!
If, on the other hand, we're talking "concentration" in terms of Addicks per 1000 population then I think the Kingdom of East Anglia must be fairly high up; there are plenty of Addicks in a not-very-populated part of the world, especially here amongst the North Folk. Judging by the cars I see on the Newmarket bypass on match days there seem to be a fair few living over the border with the South Folk.
I live on the Peninsula and find it a bit depressing that most of the kids in my neighbourhood wear the usual Arsenal, Man United, Chelsea and Real Madrid shirts. I do see a few people in Charlton shirts around on match days though.