Links With The Past: 1957 Promotion Handbook

The Leicester City heritage collection not only contains cups, medals, trophies and shirts among a host of other memorabilia dating back over 130 years, it also features a very valuable archive of documents and other printed material, as well as a very large oral and film archive.

2022-02-17T15:49:00.000Z

by John Hutchinson

Published

17 Feb, 2022

Links With The Past: 1957 Promotion Handbook

The Leicester City heritage collection not only contains cups, medals, trophies and shirts among a host of other memorabilia dating back over 130 years, it also features a very valuable archive of documents and other printed material, as well as a very large oral and film archive.

John Hutchinson

2022-02-17T15:49:00.000Z

Links With The Past: 1957 Promotion Handbook

The Leicester City heritage collection not only contains cups, medals, trophies and shirts among a host of other memorabilia dating back over 130 years, it also features a very valuable archive of documents and other printed material, as well as a very large oral and film archive.

John Hutchinson

2022-02-17T15:49:00.000Z

Links With The Past: 1957 Promotion Handbook

The Leicester City heritage collection not only contains cups, medals, trophies and shirts among a host of other memorabilia dating back over 130 years, it also features a very valuable archive of documents and other printed material, as well as a very large oral and film archive.

John Hutchinson

2022-02-17T15:49:00.000Z

Links With The Past: 1957 Promotion Handbook

The Leicester City heritage collection not only contains cups, medals, trophies and shirts among a host of other memorabilia dating back over 130 years, it also features a very valuable archive of documents and other printed material, as well as a very large oral and film archive.

John Hutchinson

2022-02-17T15:49:00.000Z

One of the documents is this ‘1956-57 Players Promotion Handbook’. This was published by the Club to commemorate the then record-breaking season when City returned to the old First Division as Second Division champions in 1957.

This 42-page booklet provides many insights into that famous season 65 years ago. It contains a narrative, illustrated with photographs, about Leicester's convincing title win, when the team finished seven points ahead of runners-up Nottingham Forest at a time when only two points were awarded for a win.

It also details the six Club records broken that season, the most impressive of which was Arthur Rowley’s astonishing feat of scoring of 44 league goals in 42 matches, a record which still stands today.

In addition, there are messages from William Wileman, the chairman, from David Halliday, the manager, and from the captain, Jack Froggatt, who paid special tribute to City’s away supporters that season. The players’ favourite memories of the season, together with their autographs, are also included.

Insights into the civic and business life of Leicester are provided by messages from the Lord Mayor and the Chief Constable.

An advertisement on page 36 of the booklet refers to the fact that during the close season following promotion, the General Electric Company (G.E.C), a major national conglomerate at the time, supplied Filbert Street’s first-ever floodlights.

The advert also contains a list of some of the other stadia in England which had newly installed floodlights.

Filbert Street’s floodlights were first used in October 1957 for a night match against West Germany champions Borussia Dortmund.

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