Oldest Brighton Programme You Have?

[Gregory2Smith1]

mine dates from 10th september 1960 played against rotherham,the team as follows

1 hollins
2 mcnicol
3 little
4 bertolini
5 jennings
6 burtenshaw
7 tiddy
8 mcneill
9 curry
10 thorne
11 laverick

kick off 3.15 match ball sponsor,tamplin's ales,phoenix brewery

inside the programme it states there is room for 16,000 under cover,excursion to our next match southampton away by british rail only 10/6

oklahoma was on at the astoria and frankie vaughan at the hippodrome,you could book a ticket on brighton 23131 (only 5 digit phone numbers back then) now were a city!

we won this particular game 1-0,finished the season 16th,liverpool finished 3rd! we actually beat them that season at the goldstone 3-1

went out to burnley in the fa cup after a replay,but burnley did finish 4th in div 1

anyone remember any of these players,i recognise thorne,he's the local lad that banged in 5 against watford,but the others,apart from bertolini,i don't know much about them

 

[Braders]

got a few from 1955 somewhere. will dig them out at somepoint.

 

[Cadiz Seagull]

mine dates from 10th september 1960 played against rotherham,the team as follows

1 hollins
2 mcnicol
3 little
4 bertolini
5 jennings
6 burtenshaw
7 tiddy
8 mcneill
9 curry
10 thorne
11 laverick

kick off 3.15 match ball sponsor,tamplin's ales,phoenix brewery

inside the programme it states there is room for 16,000 under cover,excursion to our next match southampton away by british rail only 10/6

oklahoma was on at the astoria and frankie vaughan at the hippodrome,you could book a ticket on brighton 23131 (only 5 digit phone numbers back then) now were a city!

we won this particular game 1-0,finished the season 16th,liverpool finished 3rd! we actually beat them that season at the goldstone 3-1

went out to burnley in the fa cup after a replay,but burnley did finish 4th in div 1

anyone remember any of these players,i recognise thorne,he's the local lad that banged in 5 against watford,but the others,apart from bertolini,i don't know much about them

JCL !!!

7th November 1959, my first game. Albion Reserves v West Ham Reserves, although a few of the players were hardly reserves!

Albion 5 West Ham 1.

 

[Gregory2Smith1]

JCL !!!

7th November 1959, my first game. Albion Reserves v West Ham Reserves, although a few of the players were hardly reserves!

Albion 5 West Ham 1.

love that "personal note" to supporters in the south stand,please be careful with your matches and cigarettes,we've had a few small fires!!

cracking game at bristol rovers i see,we won 5-4!

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

I'm the JCL. Don't have any Albion programmes before the 1970s...

 

[Gregory2Smith1]

JCL !!!

7th November 1959, my first game. Albion Reserves v West Ham Reserves, although a few of the players were hardly reserves!

Albion 5 West Ham 1.

i guess that one of those west ham youngsters was sir bobby moore,however did we win 5-1!

 

[Deleted User X18H]

My mum has some from the 40's somewhere.

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

Thanks for the scan of that reserve programme. Looks very basic and charming in its own way.

Does anyone know, roughly in what year did Albion programmes begin having little profiles of the opposition players and other features that we now know progs for?

 

[Gregory2Smith1]

Thanks for the scan of that reserve programme. Looks very basic and charming in its own way.

Does anyone know, roughly in what year did Albion programmes begin having little profiles of the opposition players and other features that we now know progs for?

the rotherham programme in question just has the mere basics,place of birth,height & weight,amazing how many rotherham players were local lads,6 of them were actually born in rotherham!

 

[Hiney]

My mum has some from the 40's somewhere.

Does she want to sell them?

Serious question

 

[D Block blue]

This is my oldest one though confession is i didn't attend said game as i bought it in Newcastle memorabilia shop close to the St James Park stadium, as i wanted a programme as close to the date i was born and this was the only one from that year

 

[honey boy zimba]

Fck me just seen my dad in that prog he then went on to westham and played with moore hurst ect in that ressie team he never made it liked birds and bookies to much

 

[Hiney]

Thanks for the scan of that reserve programme. Looks very basic and charming in its own way.

Does anyone know, roughly in what year did Albion programmes begin having little profiles of the opposition players and other features that we now know progs for?

This kind of stuff started to come in during the 1960s. Prior to then, programmes were pretty primative compared to what we know now.

Albion actually had a 16 page programme for much of the early 1950s but this comprised mainly adverts.

Photographs only became widespread in the 1960s and it was not until the 70s that we had any colour in the programme.

All this will be gloriously revealed when my website launches in a few weeks. Watch this space!!!!

I do not own this programme (I wish) but this is the Albion programme collector's Holy Grail

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Does she want to sell them?

Serious question

Well Ian if I could find the fuckers, maybe some. They are there up somewhere. My Grandad collected them and non - league team sheets.

I can't find my stash of 1983 Cup Final Argus's either. Ther old dear is adamant she has thrown nothing out.

My Sunday Special was 'mint' last time I saw it!

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

This kind of stuff started to come in during the 1960s. Prior to then, programmes were pretty primative compared to what we know now.

Albion actually had a 16 page programme for much of the early 1950s but this comprised mainly adverts.

Photographs only became widespread in the 1960s and it was not until the 70s that we had any colour in the programme.

All this will be gloriously revealed when my website launches in a few weeks. Watch this space!!!!

I do not own this programme (I wish) but this is the Albion programme collector's Holy Grail

Oh, I can't wait! I am sure I will learn lots more about the history of our programmes when your site launches. I'm very interested in how programmes were put together before page layout programmes on the computer - will there be stuff on that? How did they cheekily superimpose Michael Robinson in the team photo in the 1980/81 programmes? Was it really that much cheaper to print every single programme with Brian Horton on the front in 1977/78 than have a different colour photo for each one? Do the plates created for printing the programmes still survive from back in the day?

Would love to know the answers to these questions and more!

 

[Hiney]

Well Ian if I could find the fuckers, maybe some. They are there up somewhere. My Grandad collected them and non - league team sheets.

I can't find my stash of 1983 Cup Final Argus's either. Ther old dear is adamant she has thrown nothing out.

My Sunday Special was 'mint' last time I saw it!

Well come on Man!!

Get up in that loft!!!

Cheers Tim

 

[the wanderbus]

1944/45 Away to Brentford in the Football League South Cup is the oldest I have, the paper it's printed on isn't much different in texture from modern kitchen roll.
I'd love to get my hands on the charity shield programme...or even a reproduction of it!

 

[Hiney]

Oh, I can't wait! I am sure I will learn lots more about the history of our programmes when your site launches. I'm very interested in how programmes were put together before page layout programmes on the computer - will there be stuff on that? How did they cheekily superimpose Michael Robinson in the team photo in the 1980/81 programmes? Was it really that much cheaper to print every single programme with Brian Horton on the front in 1977/78 than have a different colour photo for each one? Do the plates created for printing the programmes still survive from back in the day?

Would love to know the answers to these questions and more!

The answers to the technical stuff will be in my book - at the very early stages of planning at the moment but again, watch this space!!

 

[Gregory2Smith1]

the programmes with the football league review inside were really good

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

The answers to the technical stuff will be in my book - at the very early stages of planning at the moment but again, watch this space!!

Thank you!