If you can find a copy of this book for sale, beg, borrow or steal it. It is awesome.

Inspired by the other thread, here's some pics....

I take it this book cannot be bought from a standard book shop

It was released in 1960/1....I was lucky to be given a copy as a present from someone who got it off eBay!

Copies regularly turn up on ebay and have been snapped up for as little as £17!


I have seen others end up way above this price too.

Mr mate says he paid £7....must have got very, very lucky!!!

oddly Iwas reading Niel Fox's autobiography yesterday and I was prompted to dig out my copy of Dreadnoughts and put it on the bookeshelf alongside the centenary book...

it is indeed..... excellent.

brilliant pictures

well done

What does Dreadnoughts mean and why in the first pic is it spelled dreadnowts?

The Dreadnought was the first non wooden battleship. They were indestructable in comparison to their timber counterparts - hence the name and the reputation.

It was a good comparison!



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Mint book, my Brother-in-Law lent it to me. I love the Billy Stott pic with the trajectory of the ball, very funny

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in the 1884 - 85 picture there are a couple of the gayest looking Rugby players i have ever seen one of them looks like a woman in drag.

Great isn't it. Like a primative Sky Sports graphic!