Old Film

A few years ago a large collection of over 800 films was found in Blackburn dating from the first decade of the 20th century... incredibly one of the films shows a game from 1902 - Burnley vs Manchester United. What a fantastic find.

They found films there dating from the Boer War - having received telegrams from South Africa detailing the action, the film makers got a crowd of people together and re-enacted the battles on the moors outside Blackburn!

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Ebay

Thanks to Ebay I got my hands on a print of the famous painting of Jimmy Robson scoring Burnley's goal in the 1962 FA Cup Final, which unfortunately we lost 3-1 to Tottenham Hostpur.  This was the 100th FA Cup goal to be scored at Wembley Stadium, in the 100th anniversary year of the Football Association.  (In)famous Burnley Chairman Bob Lord commissioned Terence Cuneo (famous for his paintings of steam railway locomotives) to paint the picture, which  still hangs at FA Headquarters. Bob Lord had a print sent to every senior club in the land - the one I found is addressed to Corinthian Casuals.  One of these was on Ebay about 4 years ago being sold by Grimsby Town - this is the first one I've seen since then and I got it for a good price :-)  For the first time I used an auction sniper to submit a bid with 5 seconds remaining -  worked out pretty well.

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