The Archive
Salford Lads Club, Coronation St, Salford
It’s been over a month since I posted the iconic Salford Lads Club front doors here on Flickr and added it to my Etsy shop… not a sniff of a sale so far, but that’s art and photography for you in a commercial world!
As I mentioned in my previous write-up, Kathy’s parents both lived in Salford and her dad was a member of the club in his youth so it was a great surprise to find this room. Here are stored all the membership records going right back to 1903. It took our guide Ross no time at all to dig out the membership card of Kathy’s dad… and all his brothers from such a well organised and indexed filing system (all the grey boxes on the shelving). We even got photocopies of all the family records and at no cost!
But this room is more than just an archive store… look at the grey panel left of the chairs. That is a laser cut (might be water cut… not sure) panel of a selection of members names, all arranged alphabetically which fill the entire wall behind me. We found Kathy’s dads name and brothers on the wall but it was too high to capture a good close up image (a good reason to go back and try again with a tall tripod).
One final note to mention, many footballers of yesteryear were members of SLC including Brian Doyle (Stoke City), Steve Fleet (Manchester City), Albert McPherson (Walsall and coach at West Bromwich Albion) and most tragic of all – Eddie Coleman (Manchester United) who was killed in the Munich air disaster. That’s his membership card over the desk with his last entry dated 6th February 1958.
The Archive
Salford Lads Club, Coronation St, Salford
It’s been over a month since I posted the iconic Salford Lads Club front doors here on Flickr and added it to my Etsy shop… not a sniff of a sale so far, but that’s art and photography for you in a commercial world!
As I mentioned in my previous write-up, Kathy’s parents both lived in Salford and her dad was a member of the club in his youth so it was a great surprise to find this room. Here are stored all the membership records going right back to 1903. It took our guide Ross no time at all to dig out the membership card of Kathy’s dad… and all his brothers from such a well organised and indexed filing system (all the grey boxes on the shelving). We even got photocopies of all the family records and at no cost!
But this room is more than just an archive store… look at the grey panel left of the chairs. That is a laser cut (might be water cut… not sure) panel of a selection of members names, all arranged alphabetically which fill the entire wall behind me. We found Kathy’s dads name and brothers on the wall but it was too high to capture a good close up image (a good reason to go back and try again with a tall tripod).
One final note to mention, many footballers of yesteryear were members of SLC including Brian Doyle (Stoke City), Steve Fleet (Manchester City), Albert McPherson (Walsall and coach at West Bromwich Albion) and most tragic of all – Eddie Coleman (Manchester United) who was killed in the Munich air disaster. That’s his membership card over the desk with his last entry dated 6th February 1958.