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Football and War Event @ The Valley on 3 November 2025

Henry Irving
Henry Irving Posts: 85,327
in General Charlton
Limited space so advance booking essential.

PS not sure about the last speaker being a "leading historian" either.






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  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,697
    Email sent.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,327
    Five places left
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,327
    This event is now sold out. If you want to go on the waiting list contact us on cafchistorian@gmail.com and we'll squeeze you in if we can
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,327
    Looking forward to this tonight 
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,697
    Thanks to all involved for a great evening. Nice to meet some new lifers alongside those I already knew and put faces to user names, @Tom_Hovi and @JamesSeed. It was a very enjoyable evening with four very good speakers. Thanks again.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,327
    Thanks @LargeAddick good to see you too.

    I thought it went well. Four very different topics and then a special remembrance service at the memorials behind the West Stand. Hearing the Last Post in the dark like that was something else.

    Big thank you to the museum volunteers who put in so much work week in week out but especially in the run up to and on last night. It couldn't happen without them.
  • Tom_Hovi
    Tom_Hovi Posts: 466
    Henry Irving said:
    Thanks @LargeAddick good to see you too.

    I thought it went well. Four very different topics and then a special remembrance service at the memorials behind the West Stand. Hearing the Last Post in the dark like that was something else.

    Big thank you to the museum volunteers who put in so much work week in week out but especially in the run up to and on last night. It couldn't happen without them.
    A great event last night and can only echo @Henry Irving in his comment that hearing the Last Post in the dark of a chilly November night was something very special indeed. 
  • JamesSeed
    JamesSeed Posts: 17,400
    edited November 4
    That was a really special evening, and many thanks to all concerned. All of the speakers were really informative, and I learned so much. I found the story of the destruction of the houses almost opposite the Royal Oak, and the hero who spent five hours pulling survivors from the rubble particularly moving. Heroism on our doorstep!
    On a purely selfish note I was thrilled to hear the contemporaneous poem that name checked my great aunt Minnie, alongside some of the legends of WW1 women's football.
    Great to meet @LargeAddick too.

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