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Spot The Valley
Coyotejohn1947
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Spot the ball competitions were popular in newspapers of the 1960s and 1970s but here's a twist - can you spot the site of The Valley on this plan of 1838 before the railway line was built and before the ballast/chalk pit created the quarry face utilised for the East Terrace?
The major road lines are largely unchanged which helps.
The major road lines are largely unchanged which helps.
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I assume we're in the 100.
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110 will definitely be the Antigallican as it was established during the Napoleonic wars which finished 18 years earlier than this map.
It looks pretty sure it is 106 plus 100.
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100 was my guess before looking at others0
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I’d say in the 100 just next to the 1060
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Would we not be 100 | 101 | 1020
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Not to sure, but I zoomed in and can see @Redmidland doing his paper round. 😉12
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seth plum said110 will definitely be the Antigallican as it was established during the Napoleonic wars which finished 18 years earlier than this map.
It looks pretty sure it is 106 plus 100.
I would reckon this to be the most likely combination.
What throws it a bit is the absence of the Railway line to provide a bit more context but No 106 is the entrance to the chalk pit which was later extended massively into the field marked 100 in order to extract chalk/sand? for ship's ballast and the quarry became known as the Great Ballast Pit or something similar.
The numbers correspond to the numbers on the Tithe (taxable land map) of 1838 which give 106 as an old chalk pit and 100 as a pasture field. I think the major quarrying which provided the site of The Valley took place after 1850.0 -
Astonishing to look at that map and think it was only just over 80 years before we moved into the Valley, by which time it changed completely. There may even have been one or two very elderly people who'd been kids in those scattered houses and lived to see us play there. "I remember when all this was fields..."0
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Can't find a thread to put this in...
Interesting article I have not seen.
https://footballpink.net/2018-10-22-making-a-stand-part-6-jimmy-seed-charlton-athletic/
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I have been supporting Charlton for well over 60 years but never knew the full Jimmy Seed story. For supporters of a certain age (mine) this makes fascinating reading.soapy_jones said:Can't find a thread to put this in...
Interesting article I have not seen.
https://footballpink.net/2018-10-22-making-a-stand-part-6-jimmy-seed-charlton-athletic/
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Some bits in their I never knew before, great read and cheers for postingsoapy_jones said:Can't find a thread to put this in...
Interesting article I have not seen.
https://footballpink.net/2018-10-22-making-a-stand-part-6-jimmy-seed-charlton-athletic/1
