Harold Fleming Medals & Artefact updates

I am informed that in addition to most home and away match day programmes from the 1950’s up to the current day, which number in the several thousand, a further 1,000+ artefacts have been located ready to be exhibited or used to help people conduct historical research. Each item has been entered onto a central database which contains information enabling items relating to a particular season, player or opposition team to be retrieved. However, at present their exact physical location is still a bit hit and miss. “In my garage” can still mean an hour-long search.

We are indebted to Steve Trowbridge MBE for allowing us to use one of his offices to store the items, but I think we are about to take a big step forward with the very generous assistance of Bleckmann Logistics who are going to provide us space free of charge in one of their state-of-the-art storage facilities.

Almost certainly the most valuable items in the collection are the Fleming medals. While one is anxious about making them visible to as many people as possible, I have also been conscious of how easy and devastating it would be to lose one. Consequently, with the agreement of my fellow Trustees I have got most of them secured and labelled in a frame which is pictured below. Before leaving this exhibit, I should thank Gary Herbert for allowing his medal to be displayed alongside those purchased by a group of supporters many years ago and Kate Herbert of Well Hung Framing for producing a setting of such excellence for these valuable items.