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  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,955
    edited May 2012
    'King' Arthur strikes again but Bournemouth's Mr. Redknapp isn't impressed! Any future Lifers in the Covered End?
    I would have been there, Terry .....regular Covered Ender in those days.



    Also loved your picture of Don Welsh and Sam Bartram with the FA Cup on the Lewis's coach. And what a quality bus - they don't make 'em like that any more.

    But where's the rest of the team - I can only count a few?
    Blow the pic up, is that the driver decked out as the Pearly King?
  • March51
    March51 Posts: 3,256
    Oggy, many of Lewis's coaches were requisioned during the war and they were then trying to build up their fleet again. The Bedford OB in the picture was probably the only 'open topper' they had then. I think the coach is waiting for the rest of the team who are on the class H2 tram rattling up the Woolwich Road: and yes, the driver does look like he's done up in a Pearly King outfit, after all some people think we're an East London club!
  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,955
    That explains a lot, Marchy. Sent you a message BTW.

  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,195
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    Very interesting and I have also never seen that before. When did it go and what was the house on the left?
  • March51
    March51 Posts: 3,256


    Very interesting and I have also never seen that before. When did it go and what was the house on the left?

    As said above I think the fence and gates went in the mid-'70s but could be wrong. I always thought the house formed part of the club's offices and was demolished as part of the ground re-development. The actual photo is featured in the book 'Football Days: Classic Football Photographs by Peter Pobinson' unlike the snap below which features the clapped out Viva used to cart the March family about for many years.
  • Macronate
    Macronate Posts: 12,892
    some good 'uns in here

    http://cafc.digital-ink.co.uk/GalleryPicDisplay.ink?gallery=Stadium History
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,995
    March, is your car really an iconic Charlton image ? :-)

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  • March51
    March51 Posts: 3,256
    edited May 2012
    Ha, ha. Not really CE, but it carted us around to God knows how many matches between 1971 and 1989 and I could bore you stiff with stories of our experiences up and down the country. No, the idea of posting that photo was to show the view of the main gate as most people now remember it and it's the only one I've got of that area. It was actually taken on the Tuesday after the last game and the club let us in to wander about taking photos of the deserted Valley. It felt very sad and depressing at the time. (And quite unintentionaly the 'gate' photo was taken from almost the same point as the original) AND.......of course I had the same car in 1971 as in 1985 with the same plastic CAFC badge from a Ty-Phoo tea offer in it all that time. Must make it some sort of icon!
  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,955
    Marchy, with a story like that ....... that makes you a Charlton icon!
  • C_A_F_C
    C_A_F_C Posts: 3,866
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  • tangoflash
    tangoflash Posts: 10,783
    ^That guy's massive........................
  • AddickFC81
    AddickFC81 Posts: 4,053
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    That house on the left, didn't they build an extention around the ground floor and that extention became the clubshop to open just before we returned to The Valley and remained open until it was knocked down in summer 97 to make way for what is now the Superstore?
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,023
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    AddickFC81 Posts: 4,053
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  • bingaddick
    bingaddick Posts: 8,181
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  • bingaddick
    bingaddick Posts: 8,181
    OK then!

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  • aliwibble
    aliwibble Posts: 26,290
    One of my favourite Voice covers:

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    His expression just exudes vengeance :-)
  • Miserableoldgit
    Miserableoldgit Posts: 21,458
    edited May 2012
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    Miserableoldgit Posts: 21,458
    The sun goes down on a (happy) Valley.
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  • Terry Naylor
    Terry Naylor Posts: 2,126
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    LMFAO SUPERB!!!!

  • Big William
    Big William Posts: 3,839
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    That house on the left, didn't they build an extention around the ground floor and that extention became the clubshop to open just before we returned to The Valley and remained open until it was knocked down in summer 97 to make way for what is now the Superstore? </

    Was that building called Sawyer Lodge? Think it was gone by the time we came back but I'm not sure. Pretty sure that horseshoe shaped entrance was there in the late 70's, by then it was painted red with white lettering. Probably the only ground improvement for a good few years at the time.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,023
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  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,623
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    Didn't know Powell was part of the tartan army.

  • Vincenzo
    Vincenzo Posts: 2,911
    Best thread ever.
  • PrincessFiona
    PrincessFiona Posts: 5,442
    Good job it wasn't Allardyce!
  • MSE7
    MSE7 Posts: 1,345
    edited February 2014
    Allardyce would of snapped the bar in two clean pieces. Gotta love any manger who takes liberties on the away teams cross bar.
  • Lazy_eye_metaphor
    Lazy_eye_metaphor Posts: 1,959
    There was a brilliant pic of the players celebrating a goal vs Bournemouth in the fa cup in 1980. Would love to see it again if anyone has it.
  • robroy
    robroy Posts: 4,426
    edited February 2014
    Any of you in these?
  • cafctom
    cafctom Posts: 11,365
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