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Post by Bassingham Terrier on Jun 20, 2019 12:25:17 GMT 1
Rather like epsomterrier's fine effort in adding bygone match reports to this site I have now begun the enormous task of scanning some of the early and very, very rare officially produced Town books. They are all on my own site rather than here, but I'll post links for you if you're interested. In truth it's highly unlikely that the vast majority who visit this website will ever get the chance to see these publications in the flesh so this is the best opportunity that you'll ever get. So far I've managed to scan and upload the following booklets: In a few days I'll start on some of the rare programmes that I also have.  |
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Post by Bassingham Terrier on Jun 21, 2019 10:42:40 GMT 1
1920-21 season programme now added. LINKAnd, as an aside, how simple is this? Would be perfect for what we need now rather than the 80+ pages of mainly drivel. Only tuppence too. *SIGH* |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2019 10:57:05 GMT 1
1920-21 season programme now added. LINKAnd, as an aside, how simple is this? Would be perfect for what we need now rather than the 80+ pages of mainly drivel. Only tuppence too. *SIGH* I like the adverts, some blasts from the past like the Adega and Woods Pianos that are synonymous with Huddersfield. The one that intrigued me though is the reference to a Victoria Hall restaurant on Buxton Road. Any idea where this is / was ?? I’m aware of a Buxton Way, the alley way that goes from New St through to what used to be the Mandarin and West Riding, and I vaguely recall seeing a Buxton House somewhere around there, but I’ve never heard of Buxton Road or a Victoria Hall. Is this somewhere that was a precursor to New Street ?? |
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Post by Bassingham Terrier on Jun 21, 2019 11:09:20 GMT 1
1920-21 season programme now added. LINKAnd, as an aside, how simple is this? Would be perfect for what we need now rather than the 80+ pages of mainly drivel. Only tuppence too. *SIGH* I like the adverts, some blasts from the past like the Adega and Woods Pianos that are synonymous with Huddersfield. The one that intrigued me though is the reference to a Victoria Hall restaurant on Buxton Road. Any idea where this is / was ?? I’m aware of a Buxton Way, the alley way that goes from New St through to what used to be the Mandarin and West Riding, and I vaguely recall seeing a Buxton House somewhere around there, but I’ve never heard of Buxton Road or a Victoria Hall. Is this somewhere that was a precursor to New Street ?? And you've hit the nail on the head there. A huge part of the appeal of any publication which is almost 100 years old are the adverts; all very much usually "of an age" and make people smile. In this case, because they're local - well, to most Town fans, anyway - and there is the added spice of thinking about where these business were or, indeed, still are. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2019 11:16:36 GMT 1
Well that was easier than expected... [Victoria Temperance Hall info, maps, photos, history]Buxton Road is what became New St, and the Victoria Hall looked like a pretty impressive building kind of where Wilkinson’s is now. Courtyard out front similar to the one in front of the theatre, with four imposing columns and a large entrance, like a slightly smaller version of the train station (the Victoria Hall was built about 30 to 40 years after the train station, so maybe there was some inspiration, although it was a different set of architects). If anyone is watching Gentleman Jack, the old photos look a lot like the little courtyard market area that is the entrance to the solicitors offices in that show, which was actually filmed in the courtyard of the Lawrence Batley theatre. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2019 11:18:58 GMT 1
Rather like epsomterrier's fine effort in adding bygone match reports to this site I have now begun the enormous task of scanning some of the early and very, very rare officially produced Town books. They are all on my own site rather than here, but I'll post links for you if you're interested. In truth it's highly unlikely that the vast majority who visit this website will ever get the chance to see these publications in the flesh so this is the best opportunity that you'll ever get. So far I've managed to scan and upload the following booklets: In a few days I'll start on some of the rare programmes that I also have. keep up the good work well done |
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Post by Walton-on-the-Hill Terrier on Jun 21, 2019 12:04:16 GMT 1
Well done MT. I shall definitely take a look. When it’s done I hope it gets the hits it’ll deserve. Noted your reference to my old match reports! Thanks for that but I’m disappointed at the lack of replies on there from other posters. It’d be interesting to have their memories of games past. I suspect many posters don’t even know they exist!
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Post by ambryboy on Jun 21, 2019 18:02:31 GMT 1
If Town won the league 3 times in a row now I think my copy would have a stain on it too  |
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Post by Bassingham Terrier on Jun 22, 2019 10:03:58 GMT 1
1921/22 programme now added. LINKAnd don't forget... EAT GOTHARD'S TRIPE! |
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Post by Bassingham Terrier on Jun 22, 2019 16:34:49 GMT 1
Two more additions this afternoon. Real rarities too!  These were two 'benefit' brochures produced for Billy Smith to mark his second (1924) and fourth (1933) 'benefits' with Town. For 'benefit', think modern-day 'Testimonial', not that they occur very often these days. Enjoy! |
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Post by Bassingham Terrier on Jun 23, 2019 9:57:43 GMT 1
Two more additions... Enjoy!  |
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Post by deepc on Jun 24, 2019 9:45:28 GMT 1
Thanks for the great work
Nice to see that not much has changed in 100 years
Notes in the programme asking fans not to stand during the game because they are blocking the view of those sitting behind.
Asking fans to not abuse the referee and linesman.
Seems like our ancestors were just as bad as us - must be in the genes.
Great info in there - " you cannot be offside from a throw in "
Wonder what they would have made of todays active, inactive, first phase, second phase bollox that we have to endure to-day
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Post by Bassingham Terrier on Jun 24, 2019 10:22:30 GMT 1
The first two of three 1930s programmes due to be scanned have now been added. These take a bit longer to do as the pages are larger and I can't fit a double-page spread on my scanner. Lots of cracking old adverts and even a "Face in the crowd" competition. Enjoy! |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2019 15:03:44 GMT 1
The first two of three 1930s programmes due to be scanned have now been added. These take a bit longer to do as the pages are larger and I can't fit a double-page spread on my scanner. Lots of cracking old adverts and even a "Face in the crowd" competition. Enjoy! Keep up the good work Roger The modern day ones do take a while to scan in. Have to take the thing apart first due to way they are bound. Have scanned the programme from Jan's first game v Everton drive.google.com/open?id=1gQE2sEhMeghJZbcKClSnG2sX7VxEnG45Also got the Playoff final from 2011 (sadly i didn't get the programmes from the one's we actually won). drive.google.com/open?id=1RvSociEXqzNESNPYWbr-WdFLQkyA-1kt |
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Post by Bassingham Terrier on Jun 24, 2019 15:07:44 GMT 1
I'm not going to do the modern ones, Phil - just the ones from way back when (1920s-40s) and any really famous ones, such as the Charlton 7-6 game. But I'll certainly take a look at the ones that you have done. |
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Post by Bassingham Terrier on Jun 25, 2019 10:43:16 GMT 1
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Post by Bassingham Terrier on Jun 26, 2019 10:12:05 GMT 1
Two 1940s programmes added, BUT... For some reason they don't present correctly. The first two pages seem to be the correct size with the last two much smaller. Is it just my computer or is it universal? I simply don't understand this as they look ok when I create them in Adobe Acrobat.  Can you please let me know? |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2019 15:37:12 GMT 1
Two 1940s programmes added, BUT... For some reason they don't present correctly. The first two pages seem to be the correct size with the last two much smaller. Is it just my computer or is it universal? I simply don't understand this as they look ok when I create them in Adobe Acrobat. Can you please let me know? The Sheff United one looks fine, all pages are the same size. The Halifax one doesn't. That's viewing on my phone. When I scan mine, I scan each page individually using the scanner software. Then join them together using a program called Soda PDF (primarily because its free). |
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Post by Bassingham Terrier on Jun 26, 2019 15:41:39 GMT 1
The Sheff United one looks fine, all pages are the same size. The Halifax one doesn't. That's viewing on my phone. When I scan mine, I scan each page individually using the scanner software. Then join them together using a program called Soda PDF (primarily because its free). That's just bizarre, then; I just don't understand it. Thanks for taking the time to check for me, Phil. I use a hooky version of Adobe Acrobat which has always worked ok for me - this is the first time that it's been difficult, although I suspect that it's not Adobe, but Wordpress which is causing the problem. |
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Post by Torquayterrier on Jun 26, 2019 15:51:27 GMT 1
When viewed on my PC the second 2 pages of the Halifax program are the same size as all the pages of the Sheffield one but the first 2 pages of the Halifax are much bigger, about 4-5 times the area of the Sheffield/second 2 pages of Halifax.
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Post by Bassingham Terrier on Jun 26, 2019 15:55:40 GMT 1
When viewed on my PC the second 2 pages of the Halifax program are the same size as all the pages of the Sheffield one but the first 2 pages of the Halifax are much bigger, about 4-5 times the area of the Sheffield/second 2 pages of Halifax. And yet they're all scanned at 300dpi and then reduced to 34% and collated by Adobe, Kev. I'm flummoxed. I'll probably try again tomorrow; I've already had three goes at those two programmes this morning!  |
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Post by Torquayterrier on Jun 26, 2019 16:04:46 GMT 1
Weird, its basically just the first 2 pages of Halifax that are at odds with all the others, maybe worth just trying to rescan those first. My viewer allows a lot of zooming anyway so its fairly easy on a pc to get any page at a convenient size, though checking on my phone its actually the size of the 'big' pages that comes up at a convenient size without zooming and the smaller ones (bottom 2 Halifax, all of Sheffield) that you have to start zooming in with. If these are new settings that hav esomehow been stored by Adobe it might be worth redoing the Sheffield program and the last 2 Halifax ones as they would then all come out in the 'bigger' format which is easier to read on a phone without manipulation, if this makes sense?
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Post by colnevalleyblue on Jun 26, 2019 22:41:33 GMT 1
It's really good of you to put these on.
Enjoyed reading through the Sheff Utd programmes, especially the local adverts of the shops etc and their little descriptions and quirky catchphrases.
Recognise many addresses and street names but sadly not too many of the businesses, seems times were very different.
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Post by Bassingham Terrier on Jun 27, 2019 8:17:59 GMT 1
It's really good of you to put these on. Enjoyed reading through the Sheff Utd programmes, especially the local adverts of the shops etc and their little descriptions and quirky catchphrases. Recognise many addresses and street names but sadly not too many of the businesses, seems times were very different. Thank you. Comments like yours make it worthwhile my doing it. |
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Post by Bassingham Terrier on Jun 27, 2019 9:08:14 GMT 1
1944-45 programme vs Derby County added now - and this one seems happy enough to play ok! I just can't understand it; I did nothing different to the previous two. All I can suggest is that anyone wanting to read these should simply click the "LOOK INSIDE!!!" link and then fiddle about with the pdf re-sizing buttons; that works for me.
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Post by Walton-on-the-Hill Terrier on Jun 27, 2019 9:22:16 GMT 1
The “look” of the programmes from the 1940’s is very similar to the programmes from the 1960’s.
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Post by Bassingham Terrier on Jun 27, 2019 10:12:13 GMT 1
The “look” of the programmes from the 1940’s is very similar to the programmes from the 1960’s. Yes indeed, the early 1960s certainly. Printed on much more flimsy paper though in the 1940s. |
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Post by Walton-on-the-Hill Terrier on Jun 27, 2019 10:41:11 GMT 1
The “look” of the programmes from the 1940’s is very similar to the programmes from the 1960’s. Yes indeed, the early 1960s certainly. Printed on much more flimsy paper though in the 1940s.  My Town programmes in our study. 1960's programmes second top shelf left - about 10 seasons covered in less than half the shelf. This season's progs waiting to be filed above the LP's. Right at the top - Soccer Star magazines from the 1960's. Remember them? Quality, the kind of which you don't see today. |
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Post by Bassingham Terrier on Jun 29, 2019 9:59:09 GMT 1
I've now finished scanning and adding all of the 1940s programmes that I have. - 1945-46: Sheffield United, 22nd September 1945
- 1946-47: Blackburn Rovers, 14th September 1946
- 1947-48: Preston North End, 15th November 1947
- 1948-49: Queens Park Rangers (FAC R3 replay), 18th January 1949
- 1949-50: Middlesbrough, 27th August 1949
The link for all of these is the same. LINKI have no intention of scanning all of the 1950s-> programmes as these are readily available on eBay at very cheap prices and I'm sure that many people on here either remember or own some of these. Next up will be the Charlton (a) 7-6 programme, about as iconic a game as anyone could probably think of! |
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Post by Bassingham Terrier on Jun 29, 2019 11:11:44 GMT 1
Charlton 7-6 programme now added. It's only very thin - 8 pages. |
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