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Here are the details of the anniversaries for 1 August for Arsenal FC. Details of how to find all of the 5000+ anniversaries in our list are shown at the end of today’s list. Also on this day – the end of legal slavery in the UK. ?August 1890 Royal Arsenal Committee representatives signed …
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Here are today’s anniversaries for the club, prepared by the Arsenal History Society. 28 July 1901: Bill Seddon born in Clapton and after playing junior football moved to Gillingham, and had an unsuccessful trial with Villa before coming to Arsenal in December 1924. 28 July 1951: Ray Kennedy born. He was initially rejected by Stanley …
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By Tony Attwood Today, 30 May, is the anniversary of Ted Drake’s passing, as I make mention on Untold Arsenal in the lunchtime preview. And besides the regular look at all our anniversaries it is also rather nice to consider our success in the FA Cup. First the anniversaries 30 May 1952: Alex Forbes made his …
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Ralph Guthrie was born in Hartlepool in 13 September 1932 and died September 1996, aged 54. He was a goalkeeper who played twice for Arsenal.. He started out with Tow Law Town and was transferred to Arsenal in December 1952, at a time when the club already had Swindin and Kelsey on its books as …
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I’ve already written a piece about Arsenal’s road to the cup final in 1950. It was a journey, just like that of 2014, in which Arsenal never left London – something that the press then, as in 2014, noted. But in 1950 there was no rampant anti-Arsenal agenda in the press, and the coverage of …
Note: The anniversary file pages have over time been split and split again as they have grown. Please use the index at the end of the anniversary list to find the month you want. A note on sources appears at the end. This file updated 31 July 2022. 1 August 1834: Slavery was abolished …
The list of anniversaries on 14 May is a strange bunch… I was mentioning the question of what happened in May 1910 when the club went to the very edge, and that crops up again here as the first time on the list. Famous names appear too – Mel Charles, Alex Forbes, Bill Dodgin, Don …
Notes on sources and an index to each monthly file appears at the end. This page last major update 1 May 2024 ?May 1889: Alf Singleton and Henry Stewart, two of the men who led the split away from Royal Arsenal to form Royal Ordnance Factories FC attended the annual dinner as leading members …
Arsenal on this day in history. Note: The anniversary file pages have over time been split and split again as they have grown. Please use the index at the foot of the page to find the month you want. A note on sources also appears at the end. Last major update 20 April 2023 …
Arsenal on this day in history. The March Files. Note: The anniversary file pages have over time been split and split again as they have grown. Please use the index at the foot of the page to find the month you want. Acknowledgements and sources also appear at the end. Last major update 1 …
Arsenal on this day in history. The February Files. Note: The anniversary file pages have over time been split and split again as they have grown. Please use the index at the foot of the page to find the month you want. This page was fully updated 1 February 2024 1 February 1896: Burnley 6 …
I write this on the 60th anniversary of Arsenal’s game away to Sunderland, and coincidentally at a time when we are just two days away from the same fixture in the 2013/14 season. The match in question involved Arsenal losing 1-7 away to Sunderland on September 12 1953. 1953/4 saw Arsenal have a wretched start …
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Note: The anniversary file pages have over time been split and split again as they have grown. Please use the index below to find the month you want. The links to the rest of the files and notes on sources and contributions are at the end. For contemporary events: Untold Arsenal ——————————— Last major update of …
Arsenal on this day in history – the January files Note: The anniversary file pages have over time been split and split again as they have grown. Please use the index at the end to find the month you want. A note on sources also appears at the end. The file contained over 630 entries …
Archibald Renwick “Archie” Macaulay was born 30 July 1915. He was born in Falkirk and played at first with Rangers and then West Ham in the years leading up to the outbreak of war in 1939. During the war he served his country in the Army Physical Training Corps, the Essex Regiment and eventually he …
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Ray Daniel war born in Swansea on 2 November 1928and died 6 November 1997. He started at his local club Swansea Town and in 1946, as clubs started to get themselves together for the first post-war championship he was signed by Arsenal. He elder brother had also played for Arsenal and died in the …
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Alexander Rooney Forbes (known as Red) was born 21 January 1925 in Dundee. He initially played for Dundee North End, and then after the war ended moved to Sheffield United. He played his first game for Scotland, against England,on 12 April 1947. However he had appendicitis and did not seem to make a full recovery initially …
By Gfor60 At just under 5 years old, my first game came thanks to my grand-parents, family and aunts and uncles who had organized a knees up in Southend. Up to this point, my knowledge of football was confined to my gran’s “Up the Lillywhites…best football team in London.” (Interesting how Spuds don’t change?) But …
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Elsewhere Day by Day the videos – An Arsenal video for (almost) every day of the year in order. Day by Day the stories– a key moment in Arsenal and footballing history for each day of the year Details of our other series can be found on the home page Today’s anniversary comes from 1913 12 April 1895: Arsenal …
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Day by Day the videos– An Arsenal video for (almost) every day of the year in order. Day by Day the stories – a key moment in Arsenal and footballing history for each day of the year Football today: As we get to the close of the season, result patterns are changing The anniversaries 12 April 1895: …
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220+ historic videos and lots of anniversaries. There are links to our most recent videos on the home page. An index of 220 historic videos is here Contact Arsenal History Society at Tony@schools.co.uk 100 Years in the First Division: the absolute complete story of Arsenal’s promotion in 1919. Henry Norris at the Arsenal: There is a full index to …
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John Hawley’s name won’t resonate with most Arsenal supporters; he played for the club 20 times between 1981 and 1983. But I want to reproduce part of an article on John that appears on this site, because his name crops up in the anniversaries as a goal scorer against Tottenham in 1982. You can read …
Below are the anniversaries of Arsenal for 12 April The full index to what is on this site is here. The latest article on Henry Norris at the Arsenal is… Arsenal in January 1922. progress resumes The current series: Covering all aspects off the life and work of the man who rescued Arsenal from extinction, …
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Last update 8 Jan 2019 This is the first half of our A to Z index of every player to have played for Arsenal in a league match, along with some others of note, with links to the main articles on this site about them. You can Part 2 of the list here. Please note …
An index of all the articles in the series before this one is shown at the foot of this article. By Tony Attwood By the summer of 1975 Bertie Mee’s image was seriously tarnished. From the peak of his reputation in 1970 with the Fairs Cup Win, and then the Double in 1971, he …
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