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Old Charlton related photos

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  • @SouthallAddick not seen that before, thanks. Where did that come from ?
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,594
    @SouthallAddick not seen that before, thanks. Where did that come from ?
    Up in the sky 
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,845
    I always used to wonder what that mound was behind the old west stand. Just seemed odd that they dug out the side of a hill which then went on to become the ground, but that bit got left there.
  • Off_it said:
    I always used to wonder what that mound was behind the old west stand. Just seemed odd that they dug out the side of a hill which then went on to become the ground, but that bit got left there.
    remember when they had a full size goal up there?
  • Off_it said:
    I always used to wonder what that mound was behind the old west stand. Just seemed odd that they dug out the side of a hill which then went on to become the ground, but that bit got left there.
    I always assumed it was spoil from when they first built the ground, or from when the south terrace was reduced down.
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,484

  • Lordflashheart
    Lordflashheart Posts: 5,619
    Gribbo said:

    Take away the backdrop, and kits, and ball, it’s Charlton away at Chelsea in the Prem 🙄
  • C_A_F_C
    C_A_F_C Posts: 3,866
    Gribbo said:

    Take away the backdrop, and kits, and ball, it’s Charlton away at Chelsea in the Prem 🙄
    Take away the backdrop, and kits, and ball, and its two naked men on the beach.
  • Jock Campbell I think, and maybe Ronnie Allen (WBA).
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  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,021
    Who are the two Charlton players marking each other so tightly they look like they're in a three-legged race?
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,476
    Stig said:
    Who are the two Charlton players marking each other so tightly they look like they're in a three-legged race?
    Now that’s a bit of a mystery? 🤔
  • Dave Rudd
    Dave Rudd Posts: 2,865
    Stig said:
    Who are the two Charlton players marking each other so tightly they look like they're in a three-legged race?
    Now that’s a bit of a mystery? 🤔
    It's Huddersfield's Alf Whittingham and our Jock Campbell in the foreground.  I think the pitch suffered during the great Winter of 1947.  By popular opinion, the date of the match is 8 March 1947.

    Based on the programme, the back-trackers are likely to be two from Johnson, Phipps and Dawson.  Definitely not Jack Shreeve who I knew when I was growing up.

    And, of course, forwards didn't defend in those days.

    The above suggestion of Ronnie Allen ... he played for West Brom, not for Huddersfield, and would have been too young anyway.

    For the record, we lost 0-3, but finished the season in 19th place ... one place above Huddersfield who did the double over us.


  • Dave Rudd
    Dave Rudd Posts: 2,865
    Top right ad in the programme was too much to resist ... "The Football Commandos" by Edward R. Home-Gall.

    Edward R. Home-Gall - Spy Guys And Gals
  • Hal1x
    Hal1x Posts: 4,265
    edited January 27

    Dave Rudd said:
    Top right ad in the programme was too much to resist ... "The Football Commandos" by Edward R. Home-Gall.

    Edward R. Home-Gall - Spy Guys And Gals
    Im more intrigued by the underwater wrestling bottom,left.
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,781
    @SouthallAddick not seen that before, thanks. Where did that come from ?
    Up in the sky 
    The Valley, a gift from Heaven. 
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,223
    Hal1x said:

    Dave Rudd said:
    Top right ad in the programme was too much to resist ... "The Football Commandos" by Edward R. Home-Gall.

    Edward R. Home-Gall - Spy Guys And Gals
    Im more intrigued by the underwater wrestling bottom,left.

    It's more commonly known as water polo.
  • CHG
    CHG Posts: 4,529
    I don’t recall seeing this before..
  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 6,846
    CHG said:
    I don’t recall seeing this before..
    It’s The Valley.
  • CHG said:
    I don’t recall seeing this before..
    It's a good illustration of just how huge the terracing was at the South end as well as the famous East terrace. Interesting picture.
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  • CHG said:
    I don’t recall seeing this before..
    No floodlights ?
    .
  • eaststandmike
    eaststandmike Posts: 14,956
    CHG said:
    I don’t recall seeing this before..
    No floodlights ?
    .
    Nothings changed 😁
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,219
    CHG said:
    I don’t recall seeing this before..
    No floodlights ?
    .
    Dates it to before 1963
  • Solidgone
    Solidgone Posts: 10,206

  • cashncarry
    cashncarry Posts: 980
    Solidgone said:

    Haven't WAGs changed over the years
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,484

  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,079
    CHG said:
    I don’t recall seeing this before..
    No floodlights ?
    .
    Dates it to before 1963
    Also before the Heights End was reduced.
  • Lewis Coaches
    Lewis Coaches Posts: 5,408
    This I found in a book, Football grounds from the air.  Picture taken 1970. After council had brought the land from Charlton. Shows the wall that stills runs behind Jimmy Seed Stand.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,219

  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,219
    Does anyone have a photo of a fan with a haddock on a stick?