Programmes

[RobTrent]

The beauty of retirement!

A pleasant afternoon with a glass of wine, sat outside going through a small selection of old afcb programmes. They're not in that good condition, but I've no intention of selling the six boxes worth anyway.

If theres anyone who like to spend a week helping me get them all in chronological order then please shout!

I've attached photos of three programmes from friendly matches. I remember the Weymouth game but not the other two.

I also found a programme V Port Vale (1961) and Liverpool (1968), the latter of which a few have mentioned.

 

[RobTrent]

Thank you to @table and the Good Lady for coming up today and getting the programmes sorted into decade order. Although some were a bit worse for wear the others were fine.

My oldest programme goes back to 1957 and the decade with the most programmes was the eighties. Also interesting to find a programme for the Keith Miller testimonial. @Put it in the mixer .

 

[table]

It was a pleasure Rob, the "some were a bit worse for wear, the others were fine" wasn't a reference to your visitors I hope, I thought the Good Lady was very restrained : )

 

[AFCBade]

Think printed programmes are on the way out which is a shame as they bring back so many memories when look through them - have an immediacy that doesn’t exist for online content especially as so much gets archived. Especially beneficial/memorable in your early years of watching games.

An interesting development by Swansea who offered a service for collectors where you can order a printed programme to be delivered as a full year or half year set at the end of season - otherwise it was a neat pocket sized extract at the game.

 

[Audenshaw Cherry]

Thank you to @table and the Good Lady for coming up today and getting the programmes sorted into decade order. Although some were a bit worse for wear the others were fine.

My oldest programme goes back to 1957 and the decade with the most programmes was the eighties. Also interesting to find a programme for the Keith Miller testimonial. @Put it in the mixer .

My question is, to Mrs and Mr table. Could I book you to come up to Manchester sort my programme collection in the near future please?

This is, of course, a paid role, currently at the Northern living wage rate of one groat per day. Lunch and dinner will of course be provided (We currently have a surfeit of gruel)

Accommodation is provided, under the Manchester stars, or, if preferred, at the Manure bomb shelter (all safety checks have been completed (even the bogs!!!)

Thank you.

 

[table]

If it were practical Audenshaw, we'd love to visit and sort your prog-probs. Unfortunately, we can't accept your generous offer due to dietary considerations. Where as I'm happy to have 3 meals of Chips, Pie, Peas and Gravy a day, the Good Lady is a fussy eater and will only eat vegetarian gubbins : )

The most difficult part of sorting a pile of programmes, by far and away, is resisting picking one up, just to look at one page. By the time you put it down, 3 hours have past and there's 6 programmes in a heap that you've just "glanced" at : )

 

[Audenshaw Cherry]

If it were practical Audenshaw, we'd love to visit and sort your prog-probs. Unfortunately, we can't accept your generous offer due to dietary considerations. Where as I'm happy to have 3 meals of Chips, Pie, Peas and Gravy a day, the Good Lady is a fussy eater and will only eat vegetarian gubbins : )

The most difficult part of sorting a pile of programmes, by far and away, is resisting picking one up, just to look at one page. By the time you put it down, 3 hours have past and there's 6 programmes in a heap that you've just "glanced" at : )

If I were to tell you that the gruel is vegetarian, it's northern name is 'seaweed soup', would that help?

 

[table]

If I were to tell you that the gruel is vegetarian, it's northern name is 'seaweed soup', would that help?

Sorry Auders' old chap but it's still a "Thanks but no thanks". Up your way isn't a thin stew a Scouse and one without meat a Blind Scouse?

Sorting through Rob's bits and bobs, it took a great deal of willpower not to go on any excursions. There were copies of Out of Court ( written, printed, sold by a Mr R. Trent). Newspaper clippings of a young activist called Mr. Robert Trent. Something else that caught my eye was a Hartlepool(s) programme, on the front cover, as a club emblem, was the hangman gallows ( from the game) with a dead monkey hanging from it. Different times : )

 

[Audenshaw Cherry]

Scouse is a delicacy from a little further west than I and is rarely mentioned in Manchester, unless Manure beat Klopp.

Your news is very disappointing, although I do realise that Mrs table may have had some problems getting into the loft, so I suppose the collection will have to wait until some other kind/gullible person agrees to look at them. (I keep telling people that 'they may be worth a lot one day' - when we win the Champions League)

Hopefully, I will meet you again at our first away game of the season, just down the road from me, for another 5-0 drubbing.