When Sat Comes Charlton Photos

east terrace peanuts

This months (Nov) issue has extraordinary spread photo of the Valley in 1947 (v Blackburn). More photos on Topfoto website. Well worth a look.

TEL

link?

east terrace peanuts

http://www.topfoto.co.uk/gallerypackage/gallerypackage.htm Not sure how to do a red link, sorry.

east terrace peanuts

Surprise, it became red all on its own.

Curb_It

work?

dabos

The accompanying article said "only 26,000" there. I can't imagine what it must've been like to be there on a packed day...

JT

Henry Irving

First FA Cup game other than the final to be televised.

Dave Rudd

Great photos. The bit that comes home to me from these pictures and other Wartime shots that I've seen is how little the ground changed from this period until the early 1970's. There was clearly no investment for 25 years or more.

Didn't they have consortiums (consortia?) in the 1940's?