Charlton Athletic Museum are pleased to confirm Addicks legends Nicky Johns and Steve Brown as new patrons.
When the fan-run Charlton Athletic Museum was launched, three Charlton legends, the late Derek Ufton, Brian Kinsey and Keith Peacock, generously agreed to become patrons.
Now, 12 years on, the trustees of the museum have invited two more former players from later generations to also become patrons.
These are honorary positions, but the trustees are delighted that such respected former players are willing to support the museum in this way.
Johns was twice a promotion-winning goalkeeper across his 10 seasons with the club, playing 322 times for the Addicks and winning the Player of the Year vote in 1983 and again in 1984.
The former stopper was elected into the Hall of Fame in 2023 and is a frequent visitor to the museum as he is building a record of his career using the museum’s archive of photographs, programmes and scrapbooks. Johns has also loaned the museum some very rare late 1970s and early 1980s match-worn Charlton shirts. There was little training kit at the time so players often trained in kit from previous seasons until it wore out and was then just thrown away or, luckily for us, it was taken home by Nicky. His positive response to the invitation to become a patron was almost instant.
Former defender Brown is the second newly-appointed patron. Like Johns, ‘Browny’ was voted into the Charlton Hall of Fame, in his case in 2022, and is a regular visitor to the museum and has also loaned some important items including his Wembley 1998 play-off final shirt and his medals from 1998 and the 2000 Championship-winning season.
Now a regular on CharltonTV, Steve said that it would be “his absolute pleasure” to be a patron and added that to “join such greats as Brian and Keith is a huge honour for me”.
The Charlton Athletic Museum is an independent fan run museum and registered charity and is open every Friday from 11 to 2.30 and for Saturday men’s home games from 11 to 1.00.
You can contact the museum on cafchistorian@gmail.com and see a small part of the collection on its revamped website, cafcmuseum.net.
