Sky Blue Archive (7 Viewers)

[aloisiwouldhavescored]

Back in January 2025 there was a thread about the above on here.

W were very interested in it as supporters of over 60 years, and offered to donate loads of old memorabilia, books, programmes etc., which were subsequently collected from us.

Have heard nothing further about this proposed museum.

Does anyone know what's happened and is it still a thing? Is there a current website or has it all died a death?

 

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[Captain Dart]

Back in January 2025 there was a thread about the above on here.

W were very interested in it as supporters of over 60 years, and offered to donate loads of old memorabilia, books, programmes etc., which were subsequently collected from us.

Have heard nothing further about this proposed museum.

Does anyone know what's happened and is it still a thing? Is there a current website or has it all died a death?

Home page says down due to technical issues, they are porting site to skybluearchive.com

Sky Blue Archive – The history and heritage of Coventry City Football Club

skybluearchive.com

 

[clarriebourton]

There was a major disaster in July when the hosting company deleted the whole website. Since then our efforts have gone into recreating the match database and with the help of volunteers we are over 50% of the way to doing that. We hope to be able to relaunch the website in early 2026. After that we want to create an e-museum of CCFC memorabilia and all the club records, stories, shirts, trophies, photos and programmes.

If anyone wants to either volunteer to load some match data or wants to donate memorabilia including shirts to the Archives please drop me an email at [email protected]


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[Irish Sky Blue]

Just to say that before the company deleted the data, the archive was an already fantastic resource. You could spend hours on there going down various rabbit holes, remembering matches you had been to, finding out about players you had heard of but didn’t know their history. To get it up and running initially would have been hundreds of hours of work. I know it was heartbreaking to the guys who set it up when it crashed, particularly as it seems it was down to either carelessness or incompetence.
I‘ve been helping out reload the data from one season, 1921-22. I have now become attached to the City players who played that year and will try and find out a bit more about goalkeeper Jerry Best and his colleagues when I have finished. Almost every time I go on to input another couple of matches it occurs to me that those players who played over a hundred years ago and who are now long dead and gone would never have imagined that 103 years after their season finished, someone would be writing up the details of the games that they played in so that they will be remembered for perpetuity.
I am a bit of a technophobe but have managed to master (sort of) the software. If I can do I’m sure anyone else on here could too and probably better and more quickly than me. Maybe you too will become attached to a group of players you have never seen or heard of if you give it a go?