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Charlton's 1947 Cup Winning Celebration Bus Parade

AFKABartram
AFKABartram Posts: 57,824
in General Charlton
No sound, but cracking video seeing the players lord it around on a Lewis coach past a number of bemused bus stop queues (it does get busier)

Be interested in how many local spots you recognise

http://youtu.be/lXt7Gc6EZc4

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  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,350
    My dad was so pissed off he missed it. Was doing 5 years in Pentonville for stripping lead from St Alfedges church in Greenwich...nutter!
  • oohaahmortimer
    oohaahmortimer Posts: 34,145
    Loved it
    The pure passion of the huge hordes of fans still a significant feature of today's support
  • ken from bexley
    ken from bexley Posts: 5,083
    edited July 2015
    Great bit of film.
    Goes up Charlton Chuchlane lane then right turn by StLuke's by Charlton House....... they went along to the Royal standard road about, Old Dover Road,? ...... Blackheath Village but ? till they came back to Woolwich
  • Halix
    Halix Posts: 2,237
    edited July 2015
    I missed this bus, but they said there will be another along in a minute, 68 years I have been waiting. Should be along any time now.
  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,801
    Looks like they go into Greenwich at the end
  • Raith_C_Chattonell
    Raith_C_Chattonell Posts: 5,674
    soapy_jones said:

    My dad was so pissed off he missed it. Was doing 5 years in Pentonville for stripping lead from St Alfedges church in Greenwich...nutter!

    Divine intervention.
  • Halix
    Halix Posts: 2,237
    Surely there must have been a train we could have gone on?
  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,620
    Halix said:

    Surely there must have been a train we could have gone on?

    Bus replacement service that day, somebody on the line at Greenwich.
  • Halix
    Halix Posts: 2,237
    Aah that explains it!
  • Halix
    Halix Posts: 2,237
    edited July 2015
    Just realised overhead cables, an open topped train and Sam Bartram raising the cup wouldn't work, it could get messy!.
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  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,620
    I don't suppose there's one of these for Millwall... oh sorry!
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,989
    oohaahmortimer said:

    Loved it
    The pure passion of the huge hordes of fans still a significant feature of today's support

    Ha, I just knew you would say this.
  • sillav nitram
    sillav nitram Posts: 10,163
    great video. thought we didn't have any support, thankfully people showed up at the end.

    beautiful coach and vehicles of the era.
  • happyvalley
    happyvalley Posts: 8,996
    Great clip, never seen that before.
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    Good to see them overtake the Sheffield Wednesday bus on the Lower Road.

  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,039
    Loved it. Especially the cycling outriders!
  • DRAddick
    DRAddick Posts: 3,588
    Great little video.
    Take it Sheffield Wednesday did one that year too?
  • stockportaddick
    stockportaddick Posts: 1,130
    Never seen that before, great film
  • Godstone
    Godstone Posts: 700
    Millwall & Palace will be green with envy having never won a major trophy. The boys of '47.....seems like only yesterday....
  • Afternoon Delight
    Afternoon Delight Posts: 912
    Fantastic. Mind you health and safety would have a field day with players sitting on the roof of a bus!
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  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,730
    Lovely clip but where was everyone?
  • ross1
    ross1 Posts: 50,974
    Shame the film did not start from Floyd Road, as my family were living there and we would have been on the film, the same as the big picture in the board room, so I have been told.
  • EastTerrace
    EastTerrace Posts: 3,961
    Brilliant!
  • FiveGoalSummers
    FiveGoalSummers Posts: 51
    Great to see this archive film, the celebration coach ride and the old street scenes. As regards the locations, I spotted Charlton Village, the Standard, Blackheath, Eltham Road, Lee with the tram overhead wires (yes, I'm old enough to remember the trams), Well Hall Parade and assorted scenes in central Woolwich, including Beresford Square. Trafalgar Road, Greenwich also featured as did the road junction outside St Alphege's Church. I hazard a guess it must have been a Saturday afternoon after the end of the season. I assume the coach trip beat the bounds of the old Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich and then went from Lee to Eltham and on to Woolwich. All traditional heartlands of the Addicks.
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,609
    man_at_milletts said:

    I don't suppose there's one of these for Millwall... oh sorry!

    They win a couple of cup games, then along comes the band wagon.
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,609
    edited July 2015
    DRAddick said:

    Great little video.
    Take it Sheffield Wednesday did one that year too?

    Tram
  • redlanered
    redlanered Posts: 2,195
    Did everyone spot a young John Terry sitting in the back wearing his Charlton kit?
  • DA9
    DA9 Posts: 11,091
    The lib club has never looked so clean.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,021
    Blimey, it's a wonder we had a team for the 47-48 season. Our three best players sitting on the roof of a bus waving a large metal object directly beneath high voltage cabling. I take it the club's safety officer had that weekend off. Oh, silly me; it was the 1940s, health & safety wasn't invented.
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,313
    Had no idea open-topped bus parades were a thing back then! Top work posting it (and subsequent location-spotters)

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