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Valley Clean Up Video
Henry Irving
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiHEAfBNA5QThe Valley clean up day. Who can spot themselves?
Thanks to @BobK for another great video uploaded to the Charlton Athletic Museum Football Archive.
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If you liked this then you love this.
Steve Dixon and Rick Everitt tour the abandoned Valley in early 1988, not Xmas day 1987.
The real stars are the local kids in the rubble IMHO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo-7ewQK2wE
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they went on Christmas Day?
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No, read HI’s comment aboveElthamaddick said:they went on Christmas Day?0 -
This is not a video of the main clean-up. It’s a follow-up a week later.Henry Irving said:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiHEAfBNA5Q
The Valley clean up day. Who can spot themselves?
Thanks to @BobK for another great video uploaded to the Charlton Athletic Museum Football Archive.
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Spot on :-) you'll be an influencer before you know it.......Henry Irving said:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiHEAfBNA5Q
The Valley clean up day. Who can spot themselves?
Thanks to @BobK for another great video uploaded to the Charlton Athletic Museum Football Archive.
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Influencers normally have something to promote, and that’s not a word we associate often with Our ‘Enry :-)Cafc43v3r said:
Spot on :-) you'll be an influencer before you know it.......Henry Irving said:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiHEAfBNA5Q
The Valley clean up day. Who can spot themselves?
Thanks to @BobK for another great video uploaded to the Charlton Athletic Museum Football Archive.
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Airman Brown said:
This is not a video of the main clean-up. It’s a follow-up a week later.Henry Irving said:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiHEAfBNA5Q
The Valley clean up day. Who can spot themselves?
Thanks to @BobK for another great video uploaded to the Charlton Athletic Museum Football Archive.
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Is that right @Cafc43v3r ?Phew , I thought I was going mad(der) , my memory is mush anyway …
I thought the day of the clean up was a bit drizzly1 -
This is fabulous.Henry Irving said:If you liked this then you love this.
Steve Dixon and Rick Everitt tour the abandoned Valley in early 1988, not Xmas day 1987.
The real stars are the local kids in the rubble IMHOhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo-7ewQK2wE
It evokes a million memories, and also confirms a few details which have been discussed here many times ... 9.42 (left side of screen) and 28 minutes onwards show the concrete base of the old, single-storey wooden gymnasium.
Great work by whoever unearthed this.2 -
In ten years we went from that to promotion to the Premier League playing at The Valley.
There's always hope.4 -
Was there a bonfire on the pitch both times. I know I was at one but was only 13 at the time!Airman Brown said:
This is not a video of the main clean-up. It’s a follow-up a week later.Henry Irving said:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiHEAfBNA5Q
The Valley clean up day. Who can spot themselves?
Thanks to @BobK for another great video uploaded to the Charlton Athletic Museum Football Archive.
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I was thinking this was the second weekend...I went along to both, first weekend it was teeming with people, not so many on the next occasion. I recognised some of the people on the video, not that I knew them personally, its just that there wasnt that many of us going to games at that time. Lovely memories.3
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I think I couldn’t go the second week and I’d forgotten it even happened, but the fact the seats have all been stripped from the main stand is a giveaway.Athletico Charlton said:
Was there a bonfire on the pitch both times. I know I was at one but was only 13 at the time!Airman Brown said:
This is not a video of the main clean-up. It’s a follow-up a week later.Henry Irving said:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiHEAfBNA5Q
The Valley clean up day. Who can spot themselves?
Thanks to @BobK for another great video uploaded to the Charlton Athletic Museum Football Archive.
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Is that right @Cafc43v3r ?1 -
The only time I went to The Valley while it was closed was for a football quiz in The Valley Club. I was part of the Romford FC team, Steve Dixon was in the Charlton Athletic team and we played in the Supporters' League along with clubs like Newcastle, Plymouth, Brentford, Orient, Reading and Celtic.
I seem to remember Steve took us out onto the Valley pitch at the end of the quiz and as the Romford FC quiz team actually had five proper home/away Charlton fans in the squad, it was quite a poignant visit. I think we kicked a flat football about in the long grass for a while and were reasonably pissed at the time!
I digress from the thread a bit but seeing Steve in the video has made me remember that those football quizzes were good fun and the Romford team had a well deserved reputation for being sociable. Our home "ground" was The Bloomsbury Tavern in Shaftesbury Ave and I remember Plymouth played at The Truscott Arms in Maida Vale/Warwick Avenue and Newcastle were at The Cock Tavern in Somers Town, behind the British Library. Charlton, Reading & Brentford all played within spitting distance of their actual home grounds. All the questions were set from The Rothmans Football Year Books, which were like Bibles to us fans at the time.
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