AISA Arsenal History Society: preserving Arsenal's heritage
If Archie Low, the subject of our last investigation, was something of a mystery as an Arsenal player, John William “Jack” Lee is even more tantalising. The information and pictures are provided by Mark White, and I’m very grateful for this submission to the site. Normally this would only go on the Arsenal History …
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Prelude: Having published hundreds of articles on the topic of Arsenal and its early days we have now started to try and put them in some sort of order. The indexes provided are unfortunately not comprehensive, but the process of making this history complete and navigable is now under way. Producing the website The …
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Arsenal 1913/14 and when and we went back to the Plumstead ground How Tottenham worked to stop Arsenal moving to Highbury Arsenal’s chairman announces the idea Arsenal’s possible move to north London By Tony Attwood In the recent articles (see above) we have been looking at the build up to ARsenal’s move from …
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Background to Letter from Herbert Chapman (Secretary Manager Arsenal Football Club) to James Angell (Talent Scout) While looking through some boxes containing old photos and family memorabilia recently, I found the attached letter dated 28 October 1931 sent by then Secretary Manager of Arsenal Football Club, (Herbert Chapman) to my grandfather, (James William Angell) …
This article is part of the series which traces the origins of Woolwich Arsenal FC and its ultimate move to Highbury. An index of the articles from the very start of the series is published here , and details of how this links in with our other now series on the history of Arsenal …
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By Tony Attwood This series of articles traces the history of Arsenal FC from its earliest days in south London through to is move to the north of the city, and from it being a struggling league club to one that was highly successful. The most recent articles in this story are 1909/10 …
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This series follows the journey of Wolwich Arsenal from Plumstead to Highbury . The series starts with the article “Just what have been Arsenal’s greatest achievements” and continues from there on this site. By Tony Attwood In the last episode (Planning the revolution: Arsenal move from Plumstead to Highbury) we had Henry Norris revealing (before he …
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By Tony Attwood I concluded the last episode of this series saying, “We don’t know when Henry Norris first hit on the idea of taking Arsenal to a location both close to Tottenham’s ground, and immediately served by the newly constructed but already hugely popular underground railway system, but it may well have …
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By Tony Attwood This series of articles concerning Arsenal’s earliest days playing in Plumstead, begins with the article “Why Arsenal joined the Football League rather than the Southern League” There are one or two other articles on the site along the way, but if you keep moving forward from there you can follow the story of …
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