Night at the Museum 2

Saturday the 16th May saw a kind of official opening of the Trust's Memorabilia Exhibition at the Museum. Club legends Trevor Peck, Roy Clayton and Roger Ashby were on hand to look over the exhibits and press the flesh and sign the exposed bodily parts of the enormous number of fans in attendance.

Trevor was reacquainted with his old shirt, and unsuccessfully tried to convince everyone that he could still fit into it!

Roy and Roger took great interest in looking over copies of the 1979 Trophy final programme. It hadn’t occurred that they may never have actually seen one on the day, or in the 30 years since.
Newly installed is a painting of Rockingham Road done by the famous local artist Ralph Hartley. Don’t try looking him up on Wikipedia as all you’ll find is some crusty old American namesake engineer who invented the Hartley Oscillator and the Hartley Transform. And enjoyed naming them too by the sounds of it.

The painting, dating probably from the 1960’s shows a familiar looking scene, showing how little parts of the ground have changed. In fact, if you threw in a white ball and a dozen boneheads in fluorescent jackets confiscating dangerous drinking bottles whilst ignoring harmless distress flares, it could have been painted this year.

If you haven’t made it down to the Museum yet, make it your first port of call when you are next visiting Marks and Spencers. Oops, I mean, Kettering town centre.

The Trust has done a brilliant job with the Exhibition, and should be congratulated for their efforts.