Oldest progammes

[ndg1860]

I am sure this has come up before, but I thought it may be interesting to hear from others on this.

For our history Facebook page, I have uploaded a programme from today's date, 2 April 1898 being QPR v Burton Swifts and was asked what is the earliest QPR programme known. While I do not have a copy but just the image, the earliest I have found has been 18 December 1897 v Fulham in the London Charity Cup. I am fully confident that this is not the earliest for a large portion of clubs, but would be interested if there is anywhere that keeps a record of what is the earliest programme for each club that is known of. I don't want this to be a 'mine is earlier than yours' but just a knowledge base for the oldest programmes.

I am sure that the number of pre-1900 programmes would not be large and it would be nice to have a listing/database of these somewhere.

[Dorking]

There has already been a thread on this. I will try and find a link to it.

[colchestersid]

https://www.footballprogrammecentre.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=31052&highlight=1907