Old programmes

[kevo]

What do you do with yours?

Just having a clear out and I've got boxes of Albion programmes going back years and years. I'll never read them again but sort of reluctant to throw them out... Maybe worth keeping a selection from each season, or just 'special' games...? (although it would take hours to sort thru them).

Would the BHA Collectors Society want them (I presume they'd have them all anyway..?)

 

[bardo]

Have to hang onto them for another 20 years I'm afraid, until you find them again in some God-forsaken corner of your loft. Then you'll sit there drooling over games you watched, players (by now, managers) you used to cheer or cry over, that first Amex season, etc, etc, finally returning them to their box in that God-forsaken corner for another 20 years .......

 

[mune ni kamome]

Same here. Only see the light of day whenever I move house when the precious cargo is taken on the back seat of the car with the tortoise as I daren't trust them to those thieving removal men. Then carefully up in the loft for another few years. One day my daughter will chuck them all out when I'm dead and gone.

 

[rcf0712]

Same here. Only see the light of day whenever I move house when the precious cargo is taken on the back seat of the car with the tortoise as I daren't trust them to those thieving removal men. Then carefully up in the loft for another few years. One day my daughter will chuck them all out when I'm dead and gone.

That's the saddest part isn't it, it's not the pointless hoarding of precious things we'll rarely ever look at again (if at all), but the fact that someday someone near and dear to you will simply bin them without interest when your dead or festering in a nursing home - I brought mine all out with me 17 years ago and they are still in the taped shut shoe boxes I had them shipped over in an old fashioned tea chest in.

 

[mune ni kamome]

That's the saddest part isn't it, it's not the pointless hoarding of precious things we'll rarely ever look at again (if at all), but the fact that someday someone near and dear to you will simply bin them without interest when your dead or festering in a nursing home - I brought mine all out with me 17 years ago and they are still in the taped shut shoe boxes I had them shipped over in an old fashioned tea chest in.

It's comforting to know there are piles of old Albion programmes in Oz. It's the away games from 70's that are most precious. All those memories from Port Vale, Preston, Torquay, the Aston Villa game from the promotion year, 72 was it. There were only ever half a dozen of us then and it was pretty dangerous.

 

[Hiney]

What do you do with yours?

Just having a clear out and I've got boxes of Albion programmes going back years and years. I'll never read them again but sort of reluctant to throw them out... Maybe worth keeping a selection from each season, or just 'special' games...? (although it would take hours to sort thru them).

Would the BHA Collectors Society want them (I presume they'd have them all anyway..?)

The Collectors Society have two full sets going back to 1945

I'll buy them off you - how many have you got and how far back do they go?

 

[kevo]

Had a message from the Collector's Society so think I'll be donating to them, but going to go through them first to find ones I want to keep.

Was just thinking tho, I still have loads from the 70s which I'm definitely keeping, it's all the ones from the 90s and more recent seasons I want to offload, but then again, as the other poster said, in 20 years time they'll be as 'precious' as those 70s ones are now...