Lennie at the Museum

killerjerrylee said:

He gave us dozens of VHS video tapes of the matches that were recorded for his use as manager, rather than for commercial sale. Once we get them converted to DVD, we will have an enormous archive of games from the eighties.

I would love to see some of these. Some great times and was pretty drunk for many of them.

Hal1x said:

Henry Irving said:

Well thats Lennie's loft cleared, I imagine donations to the museum will drop off when the Council dumps reopen.

You jest but you are almost certainly correct.

But that is one of many great positives of having a physical museum.

Stuff that might have just been dumped comes here.

A lot still gets dumped eventually but some is treasure and is saved.

Lenny is a real Charlton Legend.

Great man and wonderful sense of humour. 

Before a game up in smoggie land @rockspectacle and myself were drinking in The Zetland.
Minding our own business a Boro fan struck up conversation with us, very soon he brought up Sir Lennie and said that the Boro fans loved him after he got them promoted to the Premier.
He was insistent on buying us a drink as well!

killerandflash said:

He was never the most jolly of people was Sir Lennie.

There was such turmoil going on at the time, especially when @Airman Brown got the Back to the Valley campaign going that Lennie probably didn’t get the recognition he deserved.

We had no cash and no ground and yet he got us promoted back to the top flight for the first time in thirty odd years and kept us there for four years!

More than that just look at the class players he signed or brought through….

Bolder, Humphrey, Reid, Minto, Shirtliff, Miller, Lee, Peake, Walsh, Bennett, Mortimer, Melrose, Watson, Williams, Pitcher, Crooks - and he hardly spent more than £100,000 on any of them!

To be honest, I feel that he also deserves more recognition from the club for what he did - he arguably kept us alive during that period - perhaps the Lennie Lawrence Stand may be in order for the West Stand or maybe the Lennie Lawrence Covered End?

Fumbluff said:

Henry Irving said:

One of our Volunteers has all the kit and will be picking up the tapes on Tuesday 6th (next time we're open) to digitise them.

Frees up space in the Museum and makes them accessible to more people.

Not sure there's much of a market for 1980s Charlton games but we'll see if we can make them available.

Ormiston_Addick said:

There was such turmoil going on at the time, especially when @Airman Brown got the Back to the Valley campaign going that Lennie probably didn’t get the recognition he deserved.

We had no cash and no ground and yet he got us promoted back to the top flight for the first time in thirty odd years and kept us there for four years!

More than that just look at the class players he signed or brought through….

Bolder, Humphrey, Reid, Minto, Shirtliff, Miller, Lee, Peake, Walsh, Bennett, Mortimer, Melrose, Watson, Williams, Pitcher, Crooks - and he hardly spent more than £100,000 on any of them!

To be honest, I feel that he also deserves more recognition from the club for what he did - he arguably kept us alive during that period - perhaps the Lennie Lawrence Stand may be in order for the West Stand or maybe the Lennie Lawrence Covered End?

I'm not sure he deserves a whole stand - we don't have many to play with! - but he certainly deserves something. Maybe the family section or the NW quadrant, or at least a lounge like Keith Peacock has

Henry Irving said:

Fumbluff said:

Henry Irving said:

One of our Volunteers has all the kit and will be picking up the tapes on Tuesday 6th (next time we're open) to digitise them.

Frees up space in the Museum and makes them accessible to more people.

Not sure there's much of a market for 1980s Charlton games but we'll see if we can make them available.

Worthwhile resource but the camera work and picture quality will be somewhat basic, akin to the “last game” video we released years ago, even by the standards of iFollow etc.

Ormiston_Addick said:

There was such turmoil going on at the time, especially when @Airman Brown got the Back to the Valley campaign going that Lennie probably didn’t get the recognition he deserved.

We had no cash and no ground and yet he got us promoted back to the top flight for the first time in thirty odd years and kept us there for four years!

More than that just look at the class players he signed or brought through….

Bolder, Humphrey, Reid, Minto, Shirtliff, Miller, Lee, Peake, Walsh, Bennett, Mortimer, Melrose, Watson, Williams, Pitcher, Crooks - and he hardly spent more than £100,000 on any of them!

To be honest, I feel that he also deserves more recognition from the club for what he did - he arguably kept us alive during that period - perhaps the Lennie Lawrence Stand may be in order for the West Stand or maybe the Lennie Lawrence Covered End?

How about adding Steve Thompson to that list?

An update from @Eddie_Marshall on those tapes

I thought you might be interested in an update on the VHS tapes donated by Lennie.

BK has now created a list of tapes (attached). There are a lot of other tapes which are only labelled by the name of the opposition, so he won’t know what’s on them until he plays them. Apparently the majority of tapes are copy protected, which is proving to be a challenge.

BK thinks that the earlier tapes were when Alan Mullery and then Ken Craggs were manager and Lennie inherited them.

So far we have:

Season 1981-82
05/09/1981	Blackburn Rovers	2-0
19/09/1981	Grimsby	2-0
03/10/1981	Derby	2-1
17/10/1981	Sheffield Wednesday	3-0
20/10/1981	Oldham	3-1
31/10/1981	QPR	1-2
07/11/1981	Leicester C.	1-4
28/11/1981	Barnsley	2-1
19/01/1982	Luton	0-0
23/01/1982	Cambridge	0-0
06/02/1982	Crystal Palace	2-1
20/02/1982	Wrexham	1-0
27/02/1982	Shrewsbury	1-0
12/03/1982	Orient	5-2
03/04/1982	Newcastle	0-1
17/04/1982	Rotherham	1-2
01/05/1982	Watford	1-1
Season1982-83
28/09/1982	Fulham	3-0
16/10/1982	Burnley	2-1
26/10/1982	Luton Milk Cup 2nd Rd	2-0
30/10/1982	Blackburn x2	3-0
13/11/1982	Middlesborough	2-3
20/11/1982	Rotherham	1-5
04/12/1982	Newcastle x2	2-0
18/12/1982	Barnsley	3-2
29/12/1982	QPR	1-3
08/01/1983	Ipswich FAC x2	2-3
15/01/1983	Leicester	2-1
05/02/1983	Cambridge	2-1
19/02/1983	Carlisle	0-0
17/04/1983	Oldham	4-1
29/04/1983	Shrewsbury	0-1
02/05/1983	Wolves	3-3
14/05/1983	Blackburn	4-1
23/05/1983	Colin Powell Testimonial
Season 1983-84
27/08/1983	Cardiff x2	2-0
06/09/1983	Carlisle x2	1-0
10/09/1983	Sheffield Wed x2	1-1
24/09/1983	Derby	1-0
15/10/1983	Manchester City	1-0
22/10/1983	Swansea	2-2
05/11/1983	Blackburn	2-0
19/11/1983	Barnsley	3-2
03/12/1983	Middlesborough x2	2-0
15/12/1983	Leeds	2-0
21/01/1984	Cambridge	5-2
28/01/1984	Watford FAC	0-2
04/02/1984	Brighton	2-0
10/03/1984	Grimsby	3-3