razorwire
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Sadly my dad passed away yesterday at the age of 87 after a short stay in hospital. A lifelong Blackpool fan right until the end, and it's because of him that myself and now my daughter have gone the same path - some of my earliest childhood memories are of us making the 4-5 hour journey up to Bloomfield Road to watch the Seasiders in our Austin Allegro, surrounded with tangerine teddy bears.
He was a bit of a hoarder, and he has left a lot of stuff for me to sort though including hundreds if not thousands of football related books, and binders full of magazines (Shoot!, Goal, Football Monthly etc) galore. However of particular note is his collection of press cuttings books. He would get a local Blackpool paper sent down to Buckinghamshire twice every week, cut out the Pool match report and paste it in. The collection runs from the 1950's right through to 2016, which was the last year he did. I'm pretty sure there's a match report from every single game for that period in there.
As much as I'd really love to keep all of these to remind my of my dad I just don't have the room in our house (there's 70 odd of the Blackpool ones, plus others with England stuff and general football etc). I'm going to offer them to one of his friends but again I'm not sure he'll have room either so any suggestions for someone/somewhere that would appreciate them?
He was a bit of a hoarder, and he has left a lot of stuff for me to sort though including hundreds if not thousands of football related books, and binders full of magazines (Shoot!, Goal, Football Monthly etc) galore. However of particular note is his collection of press cuttings books. He would get a local Blackpool paper sent down to Buckinghamshire twice every week, cut out the Pool match report and paste it in. The collection runs from the 1950's right through to 2016, which was the last year he did. I'm pretty sure there's a match report from every single game for that period in there.
As much as I'd really love to keep all of these to remind my of my dad I just don't have the room in our house (there's 70 odd of the Blackpool ones, plus others with England stuff and general football etc). I'm going to offer them to one of his friends but again I'm not sure he'll have room either so any suggestions for someone/somewhere that would appreciate them?