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Pictures From The Past - January 12

Welcome to this week's collection of nostalgia photos from the pages of the Shropshire Star.

Published Jan 12, 2018

These youngsters were queueing up at the Gay Meadow at Shrewsbury in 1952 for autographs. This picture is courtesy of the Geoff Charles Collection held at the National Library of Wales, and gives the date of August 1 that year, and is part of a series which also includes action photos of the match in front of a packed Gay Meadow. There is a puzzle though, as we've looked it up and there was no match on or near that date. Could it perhaps have been a star-packed testimonial played roughly around that time? Geoff Charles was a prolific photographer in the borders region over several decades.

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