Looking for your 90s Rovers photos and video

[Nick_from_the_BBC]

Hello Rovers fans

We're looking for your nostalgic photo and video content to help us tell the Blackburn story in the 1990s for a BBC 2 documentary.

I work for Story Films and we are making a series about the history of the Premier League in the 1990s - naturally one of the major stories will be the Blackburn Renaissance under the stewardship of Jack Walker. I've been scouring the archives of ITV, the BBC and Sky but what I'm still missing is more content shot by fans around that time (let's say 91-96) to help capture the mood amongst fans and the whole town.

**What sorts of things are we looking for?**

Any old VHS tapes you may have been keeping where you shot your friends or family at the climax of the 94-95 season, including the celebrations

General shots of Ewood Park before or after rebuild.

Photos of school kids with the Premier League trophy (they toured it around local schools after the win)

Interactions with players - photo or video - perhaps you met them in a local nightclub or they opened your school fete or local co-op. Ditto for Dalglish and Walker.

Well shot footage of the town itself in the 1990s could also be of use.

We are also interested in Walkersteel - photos and footage- which is so far missing from the news sources.

Anything used in the series will be legally licensed from you, including potentially a small licensing fee to the copyright holders or assistance with transferring items of special interest.

Email me: nickg@storyfilms.tv

 

Nick Gilbert

 

[Beafo]

Sounds promising. Please dont make the mistake of casting us as a lower league team who rose through the leagues. 

We've only been out of the two divisions for 7 or 8 years and won more than just the Prem League and always had decent crowds for a town our size.

Used to really annoy me how we were spoken of as some former 4th Division club!

Edited November 20, 2020 by Beafo

[Ossydave]

I have a fair few vhs videos of 1995 season including VE day and the victory parade at Ewood etc at my dads, will happily share

[IrelandsRover]

Those were the days 

 

 

[only2garners]

I'm just bumping up this thread as the producers are still keen to get hold of material for the documentary series. You can either contact Nick direct or send me a PM.

[Mattyblue]

Colin Hendry was filming at Ewood for this the other day looking at his Twitter.

[only2garners]

The producers of the BBC documentary are still interested in getting any footage you might have of Rovers from our promotion to the Premier league up to winning the title.

They have now asked me to check if anyone has any material you might have relating to the 1992 playoff final against Leicester? This could be the build up in the days before, fans travelling to or arriving at Wembley, and then during or after the game. As usual, the will licence any footage and pay a fee for it. 

If you have anything you think might be of interest please pm me.