Saturday 19 December 2020

H.B. Langman & Co. Ltd. - The "Legible" Soccer Diary 1965


1964
The "Legible" Soccer Diary 1965
H.B. Langman & Co. Ltd.
61 photos

I've been asked by a number of collectors if I have lists of the photos that were included in the various diaries. I believe the Legible series started in the early 1950's and continued until the late 1970's. There have always been many of the photos on sale on eBay but I've never bothered compiling a list as it was impossible to know which diaries they came from. The only way to provide any sort of comprehensive list is to go through each of the various diaries and compile checklists for each of them. Letts also produced similar, slightly larger diaries around the same period. I used to find these in my Christmas stocking, just wish I'd held on to them. I managed to buy this Legible diary rather cheaply so I thought I would start off the project with this one, 1965. I was quite surprised how many photos are included, some are double-sided, while some have text on the reverse.

•  Team Photo (Crystal Palace)
•  Crystal Palace v Oldham Athletic
•  Team Photo (Barnsley)
•  Team Photo (Preston North End)
•  Team Photo (Sunderland)
•  Team Photo (Carlisle United0
•  Charlie Hurley (Sunderland and Ireland)
•  West Ham Win F.A. Cup (Bobby Moore)  b/w
Lap of Honour (Bovington and Boyce)
•  F.A. Cup Final (Holden, Preston, Tackled)  b/w
F.A. Cup Final at Wembley (Sissons, Kelly)
•  Howard Kendall (Preston North End)  b/w
Jimmy Greaves (Tottenham and England)
•  English Team v. Rest of the World  b/w
England v Rest of the World at Wembley (Denis Law and Maurice Norman)
•  Bobby Charlton - Jan Popluhar  b/w
Gordon Banks (Leicester City and England)
•  Jim Armfield (Blackpool and England)  b/w
George Eastham (Arsenal and England)
•  Gilzean (Dundee and Scotland); Tambling (Chelsea)  b/w
George Kinnell (Stoke City)
•  Fred Pickering (Blackburn and England)  b/w
Gordon West (Everton)
•  Ian Ure (Arsenal and Scotland); Law (Man. United and Scotland)  b/w
Pace (Sheffield United)
•  Anderson (Newcastle United)  b/w
John Charles and A. McIntosh (Cardiff City)
•  Braithwaite (Middlesbrough)  b/w
Sewell (Charlton)
•  Vearncombe (Cardiff City)  b/w
Wilson (Huddersfield and England)
•  Coddington (Huddersfield)  b/w
Southampton v Sunderland (Godfrey, Sharkey)
•  F.A. Amateur Cup Final at Wembley (The Hon. Angus Ogilvy meets the Crook Town team)  b/w
F.A. Amateur Cup Final at Wembley (Crook Town)
•  Scotland v England at Hampden  b/w
Scottish Cup Final (Rangers defeat Dundee)
•  Team Photo (Triumphant Rangers)  b/w
Henderson (Rangers and Scotland)
Britain's Famous Managers:
•  Nicholson
•  Scot Symon  b/w
Greenwood
•  Stein
•  Wright
•  Busby  b/w
McGrory
•  Rowe
•  Docherty
•  Hill
•  Team Photo (Rotherham United)
•  Team Photo (Manchester City)
•  Hugh McIlmoyle (Carlisle United)
•  Team Photo (Burnley)
•  Charlton v Leeds at The Valley (Sprake, Peacock)
•  The World's Famous Footballers  b/w
Pluskal (Dukla Prague and Czechoslovakia)
•  Ferenc Puskas (Real Madrid and Spain)  b/w
Seeler (West Germany)
•  Di Stefano (Real Madrid and Spain)  b/w
Schnellinger (Mantova and West Germany)
•  Eusebio (Portugal)  b/w
Kopa (France)

2 comments:

  1. Is the legible soccer diary worth anything these days

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    1. They're not worth much, condition is probably important. There are a few sitting on eBay and been there a few months.

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