We have a 1921 contract for Alfred Kingsley who used to play pre Great War for the amateur side and a couple of 1914/18 items A-I-E.
The early history of the club 1905/1920 remains a bit of a mystery with local papers being the best source of information we can find. For instance something as obvious as indentifying 2/3 of the clubs players who were killed in the Great War is proving tough at the moment.
We are hopeful that the establishing of the museum will interest people to go through those loft boxes and perhaps uncover something we can see and photograph to further and preserve our knowledge of the club. Items can be loaned for a short time, they dont always have to be given.
We are really keen to alternate the exhibits so people can visit more than once a season, imagine the interaction between grandparents and grandchildren when looking around and the memories it could evoke. In turn this would strengthen the clubs identity both historically and locally and without doubt "enhance the matchday experience".
Its a very exciting project but with all volunteer projects takes some time to get fully up and running but we have certainly come a long way in a short space of time.
Great item, would love to see all the pages but I think the best thing would be to link your site to our so that we don't duplicate the work. Just amazing just how much of the Club's history is out there and how little is with the Club.
I have been told that there is a Sieman's work newsletter that mentions the very very early CAFC but have never seen it. I think yours must be the earliest supporters newsletter. I hope it has lots of complaints about other supporters' standing/smoking : - )
Not sure if this is the first Charlton Athletic Supporters newsletter / fanzine.
It is dated 18th February 1922
It is numbered 1 but there may be earlier. Would be nice to know.
@Henry I must get round to photography some of the items that you may like for the museum.
Hi Be good to have someone else that can take some photography, as Henry mentioned come down on the 30th, we can have a chat about what you would like to do. Bring you camera if you like?
Just a quick reminder that if you have an interest and are free this evening there is a preview night for Museum members tonight at the Valley between 17:00/20:00, if you are not a member you can join on the night.
Whilst we are still some way off obtaining the display cabinets it is a chance to see cup winners medals, Stuart Leary's boots, Clive Mendonca's hat trick ball from Wembley and much more.
North Stand reception from 5 and one on the museum team will show you around the space we have
It was good to see the allocated space where the museum is going to develop and grow into something that will be a legacy of our club. Well done to all who are pushing to get this up and running.
Fantastic to get some of our history out on display last night and to see a few lifers who came along. I am really excited about this museum being able to tell the story of our club, through a fans initiative, to future generations. We are a special club and the exhibits showed that from the obvious items like FA Cup winning medals and Clive Mendoncas hat trick boots and ball to Valley Party Ballot Boxes and original grand stand seats. To misquote Jose the museum will "made in Charlton"
Trustee Clive Harris with 4 of the FA cup medals, and minature FA cup winners copy of the famous cup. Preparing a new web page for next week with more photos.....
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The early history of the club 1905/1920 remains a bit of a mystery with local papers being the best source of information we can find. For instance something as obvious as indentifying 2/3 of the clubs players who were killed in the Great War is proving tough at the moment.
We are hopeful that the establishing of the museum will interest people to go through those loft boxes and perhaps uncover something we can see and photograph to further and preserve our knowledge of the club. Items can be loaned for a short time, they dont always have to be given.
We are really keen to alternate the exhibits so people can visit more than once a season, imagine the interaction between grandparents and grandchildren when looking around and the memories it could evoke. In turn this would strengthen the clubs identity both historically and locally and without doubt "enhance the matchday experience".
Its a very exciting project but with all volunteer projects takes some time to get fully up and running but we have certainly come a long way in a short space of time.
The earliest item we have been told about is a 1907 Woolwich League Champions medal.
It is dated 18th February 1922
It is numbered 1 but there may be earlier. Would be nice to know.
@Henry I must get round to photography some of the items that you may like for the museum.
Great item, would love to see all the pages but I think the best thing would be to link your site to our so that we don't duplicate the work. Just amazing just how much of the Club's history is out there and how little is with the Club.
I have been told that there is a Sieman's work newsletter that mentions the very very early CAFC but have never seen it. I think yours must be the earliest supporters newsletter. I hope it has lots of complaints about other supporters' standing/smoking : - )
What are you doing on the evening of 30th April?
Be good to have someone else that can take some photography, as Henry mentioned come down on the 30th, we can have a chat about what you would like to do.
Bring you camera if you like?
Whilst we are still some way off obtaining the display cabinets it is a chance to see cup winners medals, Stuart Leary's boots, Clive Mendonca's hat trick ball from Wembley and much more.
North Stand reception from 5 and one on the museum team will show you around the space we have
We had a special visitor after you left and I don't mean Ooh ahh Mortimer : - )
The white hat relates to CAFC?
Preparing a new web page for next week with more photos.....