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Anything worth watching at the pictures now the World Cup has finished? #456Book

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July 21, 2026 at 6:26 PM
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“We were 8th at the start of April lads. Then we went on a run. 6 wins in a row. We scored 20 goals. Me? Just 9 of them. We only needed a draw at Hull but we won 4-1. And that’s how we got promoted in ‘56” #456Book

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June 24, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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Sunday night tune…Rip it up, Bill Haley. Hard to believe now but in 1956,this was the equivalent of the Sex Pistols in 76. A call to arms for the first ever ‘teenagers’.Cut-throat razors ripping up cinema seats and dancing in the aisles shocking the country. #456Book #50sLeeds #LUFC #ALAW
June 21, 2026 at 4:44 PM
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Weekend away coming up? Something to read on the way?

4-56, the new book by Billy Morris. Out now. #456Book

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June 17, 2026 at 7:55 AM
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April 1956 -The best month in #LUFC’s history?
8th in division 2 on 1-4-56 …then 6 straight wins, 20 goals scored with 9 for King John. 2nd place and promotion by the end of the month! #456Book

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June 16, 2026 at 3:12 PM
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Leeds players prepare for the big promotion decider against Bristol Rovers 21/4/56- Bristol 2nd, Leeds 3rd with a game in hand. A win would make Leeds favourites for the 2nd promotion place and 50,000 were expected at Elland Road. #456Book

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June 15, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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Charles United was the name the press gave #LUFC’s 1956 promotion winning team. King John scored 29 goals that season even though he only played as striker from the end of October. He was just too good for division 2! #456Book

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June 12, 2026 at 7:26 AM
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Cover more or less sorted for the new book, 4-56, which should be out in the next couple of weeks. Rock and Roll, Teddy Boy gang wars, King John and young Jackie, and Leeds United’s late push for promotion in April 1956. #456Book

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June 2, 2026 at 11:46 AM
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Another young hopeful, starting out in his career and hoping to make a name for himself at Leeds but with a National Service call up on the horizon. Wonder what became of him?!
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February 5, 2026 at 9:45 AM
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Never seen this before- the famous photo of John Charles and a gang of schoolboys at the gate of his in-laws house in Middleton Park Grove, revisited 50 years later…
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November 21, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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The King’s return? I’m guessing this is a late 50s visit from John Charles after he’d gone to Italy. Leeds players are, I think, Grenville Hair, Gerry Francis, Big Jack, ??, Archie Gibson?, Chris Crowe, George Meek. Not sure who the other bloke in the suit is?
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November 11, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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Out-takes from the Pathé News ‘John Charles transfer’ newsreel. The Gentle Giant looking unsurprisingly embarrassed at being made to say goodbye to Peggy multiple times then self consciously finger his Wales mementos. And it was all cut from the film!
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October 28, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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King John meets Sir Bobby.

After the match between the Italian League and the English league at the San Siro in Nov 1960. JC was at Juventus and Robson was playing for West Brom. The Italian league won 4-2.
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October 19, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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After the match,1950s- I thought they were early leavers heading past the cricket ground to the New Peacock but the football special tram is heading back empty to Elland Road which suggests they might be stragglers. Perhaps they’d hung around for King John’s autograph?
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October 17, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Leeds away at Birmingham in 1951 in what appears to be an all blue kit. We didn’t start to play in all blue with gold trim until 1955 so could this be an early change strip maybe? Birmingham would be a strange place to use all blue if so!
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October 6, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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A couple of photos from Archie Gibson’s collection that his grandson sent me. Mid 50s #LUFC team training in the gym. I can see a young Jack Charlton at the back,George Meek, Eric Kerfoot ,but no John Charles. Was the gym in the old west stand I wonder?
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October 5, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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1950 - Leeds trainer Bob Roxburgh either explaining tactics using snooker balls or lining up his famous trick shot. Players are John Charles, Eddie McMorran, Davie Cochrane, John Williams, Tom Burden,Ray Iggleden, Jimmy Dunn and Frank Dudley.
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September 29, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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1953 style click-bait! Makes it sound like King John was blinded by Elland Road’s new-fangled high-tech floodlights. Some clubs were resistant to playing under lights initially- Leeds had wanted to use them for the 1956 cup game against Cardiff but they refused.
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September 9, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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‘The Yelland Roar’…congratulations to #LUFC on promotion to division 1 from Wallace Arnold..This one was in 1956 and looks like they were already running coaches to away games back then.
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August 19, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Archie Gibson’s grandson has sent me some more previously unseen photos from his Grandad’s 1950s collection. Looks like a brewery trip here with John Charles stirring the mix. Would BB have been Bentley’s Brewery maybe?
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August 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Anyone recognise this Leeds player? Made 21 appearances between 1959-61 and later became a vicar! Good shot of the Scratching Shed too when it looks to have been popular with families and kids.
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July 27, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Is a wet Sunday getting you dreaming of the beach? Time to check that your Speedos still fit, then sort out your holiday reading material…

6 Billy Morris books to choose from. Gritty Leeds fiction with a terrace twist.

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July 20, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Another of the rediscovered Archie Gibson photos- Big Jack, Jimmy Dunn, Harold Brook, Gibson, Bob Forrest (all my guesses!) with unknown theatre cast, potentially in the Wrens pub across from the Grand? c1957
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July 20, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Another of Archie Gibson’s previously unseen photos sent by his grandson. I assume it’s the team’s new boot delivery after the 1956 west stand fire. I think (please correct me!) Jack Overfield, Roy Wood, Jimmy Dunn(?), and Gibson in the burnt shell of the stand.
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July 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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This is one of the intriguing photos from the Archie Gibson collection. Archie with Jack and JC, not sure of the other lad? No caption so the sticking plasters are a mystery. Heading injuries from a heavy laced ball maybe?
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July 19, 2025 at 12:52 PM