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Photos of The Valley

BDL
BDL Posts: 6,021
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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  • mistrollingin
    mistrollingin Posts: 3,868
    Wonderful picture BDL. So many memories of the old ground. Thanks.
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,996
    Great pic.

    Were you up in a balloon or something at the time?
  • EpsomAddick
    EpsomAddick Posts: 2,594
    He's not known as Big Dave Lockwood for nothing...
  • dave85
    dave85 Posts: 418
    DOWN THE OLD VALLEY!!!!!!
  • SouthAfricaAddick
    SouthAfricaAddick Posts: 242
    Memories !!
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,398
    Off_it said:

    Great pic.

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

    Or have ******* long legs!
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    Jeez.

    Look at those pot holes!
  • Sillybilly
    Sillybilly Posts: 9,251
    Great picture. Thanks for posting.
  • masicat
    masicat Posts: 5,016
    Love this pic. Real memory jogger. Can see the garden we used to hop through.
  • ken from bexley
    ken from bexley Posts: 5,127
    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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  • ken from bexley
    ken from bexley Posts: 5,127
    Here is one that I discoverd...... on the getty site
    I do not own the copyright.
  • BDL
    BDL Posts: 6,021
    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.
  • bloodnut
    bloodnut Posts: 2,146
    Mile high club by any chance BDL?
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    How did you get one of your shoe boxes through the loft hatch?

  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,278
    I'm not even sure how you got your shoe in the door:

    image

    Super Valley pic btw.
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 64,213
    edited December 2013
    image

    Sorry to dig up an old topic and this might sound a silly question to most on here but being born in 1992, I'm not 100% sure this is the old Valley. I found this picture online tagged "The Valley 1974" but obviously as the ground looks completely different nowadays I wanted to check.

    Appreciate any help. Any other info would be brilliant as well... :-)
  • 1905
    1905 Posts: 2,763
    The old away end, taken from East Bank
  • JCAddick
    JCAddick Posts: 29
    Definitely the Valley…Before the Jimmy Seed Stand went up…
  • Captain Peacock
    Captain Peacock Posts: 202
    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.
  • cafc999
    cafc999 Posts: 4,988
    very nice photo Callum

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  • RedChaser
    RedChaser Posts: 19,899
    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.
  • MSE7
    MSE7 Posts: 1,345
    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.
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    The ref in the picture is Ronald Bryan from Worksop, my Mother-in-law's uncle, by marriage.
  • WestSussexAddick
    WestSussexAddick Posts: 1,233
    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.
  • timken
    timken Posts: 1,014
    I remember the highlight [as a kid]in those days was a kick about at half time on that grass bank.
  • Miserableoldgit
    Miserableoldgit Posts: 21,458
    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.
  • mistrollingin
    mistrollingin Posts: 3,868
    The large shed on the right above the crowd was the supporters club hut.
  • RedChaser
    RedChaser Posts: 19,899
    Miserableoldgit 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.
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 29,030
    RedChaser said:

    Miserableoldgit 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.
    Long shot? It's a pen, only 12 yds.
  • Miserableoldgit
    Miserableoldgit Posts: 21,458
    RedChaser said:

    Miserableoldgit 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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