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Peter ‘Scoop’ Burrowes - RIP

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  • clive
    clive Posts: 20,444
    https://www.charltonafc.com/news/lawrence-and-elliott-lead-tributes-peter-scoop-burrowes
  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 27,943
    A real Charlton legend. RIP.
  • h
    h Posts: 147
    Sad news - an instantly recognisable Charlton voice now falls silent. RIP Peter.
  • Pavoren007
    Pavoren007 Posts: 2,632
    RIP Peter! Absolute legend. X
  • BDL
    BDL Posts: 6,046
    Devastating news, he said to me after the play off match a few weeks back ‘see you in August’.

    RIP Scoop, proud to have known you.
  • WrightCharlie
    WrightCharlie Posts: 831
    Very sad to come on here and see this news, he's been part of the Charlton fabric for as long as I can remember, my sincere condolences to his family and friends. And thanks Peter.
  • DerbyshireRed
    DerbyshireRed Posts: 1
    Loved reading his reports in the old Kentish Independent and hearing his dulcet tones on various radio stations.
    he wil be very sadly missed. RIP Peter
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 86,389
    valleynick66 said:
    Can they name the Press Room after him as a small token perhaps ?
    That honour has already been given to Colin Cameron but perhaps something else can be done.
  • valleynick66
    valleynick66 Posts: 5,486
    Henry Irving said:
    valleynick66 said:
    Can they name the Press Room after him as a small token perhaps ?
    That honour has already been given to Colin Cameron but perhaps something else can be done.
    Yes of course you are correct. Perhaps the gantry as he was most recently seen there sharing the crowd size etc. 

    Regardless the club tributes from Elliot and Lawrence speak  volumes of the genuine fondness for him. 
  • Isawlearyplay
    Isawlearyplay Posts: 289
    Oh that is so sad
    Legend is not an overstatement
    RIP

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  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,914
    BDL said:
    Devastating news, he said to me after the play off match a few weeks back ‘see you in August’.

    RIP Scoop, proud to have known you.
    Yes, I was speaking to him early April and he appeared to be fine then waiting for a bus.
    I'm quite surprised.
    RIP Peter.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 86,389
    Some photos of Scoop from the Tom Morris archive (and yes, Tom had filed them under "Scoop"

    With Roger Alwen helping to launch Valley Gold in 1989






  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 86,389
    Scoop with Eddie Firmani in the US in 1978


  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 86,389
    Finally, Scoop at home in the Valley Press Gantry 2002


  • stockportugaladdick
    stockportugaladdick Posts: 1,232
    RIP. Sad news.
  • Acab
    Acab Posts: 732
    Saturday afternoons when Charlton were away I’d sit at the kitchen table with the radio on listening to the Beeb catching the latest scores. Dec 74 I twiddling with the dial and I heard this voice saying ‘it’s Wrexham 0 Charlton 3 Peter Burrows for IRN back to the studio’.  That was my first knowledge of Peter and IRN now LBC of course. I’ve met him many times over the years. Great bloke will be sadly missed everbody connected with the club. RIP scoop.
  • Richard J
    Richard J Posts: 8,112
    Where do I start.

    Like others my first knowledge of him was the LBC reports and KI journalism of the 70's and 80's. 

    Iirc he once wrote at the time that Mike Bailey left to manage Brighton that he had started his journalistic career as Mike was making his debut for the Addicks in the early 60's so he really was an old father time figure.

    Like others I enjoyed his company also at Canterbury, but I also had other links to him through his involvement with the Labour Party and once when I saw him volunteering at a London Theatre.

    RIP old friend.
  • JohnnyH2
    JohnnyH2 Posts: 5,516
    Was a great Charlton character and always came across as friendly bloke

    RIP
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 32,031
    Charlton journalistic legend.

    RIP ‘Scoop.’
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,801
    RIP

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  • msomerton
    msomerton Posts: 3,479
    Condolences to his family and friends. A part of  my Charlton history , when radio was the way to keep up with Charlton events, he was one of the voices out of the ether.
  • Lewis Coaches
    Lewis Coaches Posts: 5,575
    guinnessaddick said:
    RIP Scoop.
    Remember getting some player tickets from him at Goodison many years ago.

    A true Charlton legend.
    Didnt get players tickets from him but one night in Portsmouth I was given the Charlton captain to look after .

    Peter is as I write speaking with other old Charlton pressmen who have passed away.

    Rest in peace Peter .
  • Bangkokaddick
    Bangkokaddick Posts: 4,399
    RIP Scoop.
  • LawrieAbrahams
    LawrieAbrahams Posts: 3,783
    I used to see him at every game, with a piece of paper with the attendance which he would show to the press.
    RIP.
  • Big William
    Big William Posts: 3,929
    Although he was around forever, I always think of the 70's when Scoop is mentioned - mainly due to the much missed Kentish Independent and the LBC reports. He was the bearer of usually grim tidings from far flung places, but I'd guess like the rest of us he never gave up hoping!

    RIP a big part of the Charlton story.
  • cafckev
    cafckev Posts: 2,938
    He was the voice of Charlton for years. Listening to him when I could not get to games was an absolute given.
    RIP Peter
  • oohaahmortimer
    oohaahmortimer Posts: 34,834
    Part of the Charlton fabric you’d see him here, there and everywhere . I remember going to brekkie with a monster hangover at some filthy b&b in Bury the day after a thrilling 0-0 league cup game in the early nineties and there he was having breakfast , just seeing him was a Charlton buzz just like you got when you saw Headphones Norm . Whenever I bumped in to Scoop i’d always find  myself saying his name in a slightly nasally voice imitating him signing off from a radio report .
    RIP 
  • Bournemouth Addick
    Bournemouth Addick Posts: 16,352
    Ah, that's really sad news to hear. First met Scoop back as a kid in the 70's as he was a pal of my grandad and they'd often have a quick chat before the game. It always seemed impossibly glamorous that my grandad knew the bloke who would be on the radio later. Funny really, thinking about it now. 

    Another link to my first trips to The Valley now sadly gone.

    RIP Scoop. 
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 72,133
    RIP. Lovely that he was at the Lennie Lawrence dinner, one final big Charlton get together.
  • Dartaddick
    Dartaddick Posts: 131
    RIP Peter

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