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  • lardiman
    lardiman Posts: 51
    edited March 2023
    Many thanks, that info is much appreciated.
    I've been looking through old newspaper archives, but could not find a reference to that defeat.
    There seems to be more surviving coverage of the Western section of the SSL that season.
  • CharltonAthMuseum
    CharltonAthMuseum Posts: 553
    lardiman said:
    Many thanks, that info is much appreciated.
    I've been looking through old newspaper archives, but could not find a reference to that defeat.
    There seems to be more surviving coverage of the Western section of the SSL that season.
    Which papers are you reading?
  • lardiman
    lardiman Posts: 51
    Mostly local papers associated with Charlton's opponents in the SSL that season;
    South London Press, Bromley Chronicle, papers from Croydon & Wimbledon. I couldn't find any Kentish Independent material from 1911-12, and very little Woolwich Herald.
  • CharltonAthMuseum
    CharltonAthMuseum Posts: 553
    edited March 2023
    Annoyingly the KI hasn't been digitised past about 1910
  • lardiman
    lardiman Posts: 51
    edited March 2023
    Thanks again for your help though.
    Finding out about the early days & amateur era has become something of a hobby for me, but my time and resources are limited.
    I know those far off times were hard for working folk, but I can't help attaching some romanticism to that era. It seems less cynical and more sporting; players had to be tough to play a tough game, and were not pampered. I'ts a joy to gradually find out about how our Club grew and evolved in those years.
  • CharltonAthMuseum
    CharltonAthMuseum Posts: 553
    @lardiman

    Paul Baker, one of the museum trustees, is working on a book about our pre-league history and is equally passionate about that era.

    Email us on cafchistorian@gmail.com and I'll put you in touch.

    And if you haven’t already you should visit the museum, we have a few good early medals etc
  • Blackheathen
    Blackheathen Posts: 6,655
    What an excellent thread
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,219
    Without any nagging from me @stig has completed the almost impossible task of fitting the last 8 years of Charlton history on to one A0 board.

    The old board, signed by Thomas Sandgaard, has been taken down

  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,219
    The new board is now up in the museum...
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,219

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  • BartramBlitz
    BartramBlitz Posts: 675
    Ben I love those symbols for ESI and Sandgaard. Inspired!!
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,219
    edited August 2024
    BartramBlitz said:
    Ben I love those symbols for ESI and Sandgaard. Inspired!!
    All @Stig's work


  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,021
    Henry Irving said:
    BartramBlitz said:
    Ben I love those symbols for ESI and Sandgaard. Inspired!!
    All @Stig's work


    If I remember rightly, there may have been some creative nudges from Henry and the museum team.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,219
    Stig said:
    Henry Irving said:
    BartramBlitz said:
    Ben I love those symbols for ESI and Sandgaard. Inspired!!
    All @Stig's work


    If I remember rightly, there may have been some creative nudges from Henry and the museum team.
    Perhaps but we know where the real credit is due.

    Anyone want to bid on the old timeline board?

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