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Charlie Web commemorated
A man who starred as a player for Brighton & Hove Albion and then managed the club for 28 years is to be commemorated by a plaque on his former home.
The Brighton and Hove Albion Collectors’ and Historians’ Society, was formed in 1998 and has the backing of the Albion, exists to promote and preserve the club’s history.
It is always pleased to accept donations of programmes, memorabilia, etc., in order to preserve them for future generations.
It is anticipated that there will be a museum/archive at the club’s planned new stadium for this purpose.
was in charge of the team from 1919 until 1947.
The plaque, funded by the Albion Collectors’ and Historians’ Society, will be unveiled by his daughter, Mrs Joyce Watts, and Albion chairman Dick Knight at 15 Frith Road, Hove, on Saturday, 15th November 2003, at 11 am.
Supporters are welcome to attend the ceremony.
Charlie oversaw the team in more than 1,200 first-team games, but he was also a great player for the club. Signed initially in 1908, he was the first Albion man to represent his country when he won three Irish international caps in 1909 and 1911.
Charlie Webb
He went on to score the goal against Aston Villa which secured the F.A. Charity Shield in 1910, for which, as an amateur, he received a gold tie-pin.
As a former soldier he drilled his colleagues on the Goldstone pitch
when war broke out in 1914, but he also fought on the Front and was actually appointed manager while residing in a German prisoner-of-war camp.
A much-respected manager throughout the game, "Mr Webb" enjoyed two testimonials and did much to keep the club going during the Second World War before retiring in 1947.
Charlie passed away in 1973 at the age of 86, his daughter planting a tree in Hove Park in his memory.
The house itself doubled as an Albion office in the 1920s and ’30s. Joyce Watts recalled, "On match days all the gate money used to come to Frith Road and we used to store it in our larder in a safe because the banks weren’t open.
We had to wait until Monday to take it all down to the bank. All the business was done at Frith Road, and Dad and I coped with everything. For cup-ties we even sold the tickets from the house!Charlie
A man who starred as a player for Brighton & Hove Albion and then managed the club for 28 years is to be commemorated by a plaque on his former home.
The Brighton and Hove Albion Collectors’ and Historians’ Society, was formed in 1998 and has the backing of the Albion, exists to promote and preserve the club’s history.
It is always pleased to accept donations of programmes, memorabilia, etc., in order to preserve them for future generations.
It is anticipated that there will be a museum/archive at the club’s planned new stadium for this purpose.
was in charge of the team from 1919 until 1947.
The plaque, funded by the Albion Collectors’ and Historians’ Society, will be unveiled by his daughter, Mrs Joyce Watts, and Albion chairman Dick Knight at 15 Frith Road, Hove, on Saturday, 15th November 2003, at 11 am.
Supporters are welcome to attend the ceremony.
Charlie oversaw the team in more than 1,200 first-team games, but he was also a great player for the club. Signed initially in 1908, he was the first Albion man to represent his country when he won three Irish international caps in 1909 and 1911.
Charlie Webb
He went on to score the goal against Aston Villa which secured the F.A. Charity Shield in 1910, for which, as an amateur, he received a gold tie-pin.
As a former soldier he drilled his colleagues on the Goldstone pitch
when war broke out in 1914, but he also fought on the Front and was actually appointed manager while residing in a German prisoner-of-war camp.
A much-respected manager throughout the game, "Mr Webb" enjoyed two testimonials and did much to keep the club going during the Second World War before retiring in 1947.
Charlie passed away in 1973 at the age of 86, his daughter planting a tree in Hove Park in his memory.
The house itself doubled as an Albion office in the 1920s and ’30s. Joyce Watts recalled, "On match days all the gate money used to come to Frith Road and we used to store it in our larder in a safe because the banks weren’t open.
We had to wait until Monday to take it all down to the bank. All the business was done at Frith Road, and Dad and I coped with everything. For cup-ties we even sold the tickets from the house!Charlie
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