Sons of Ashington were pillars of England’s 1966 success but never bonded as children and family discord later divided them
A month after the 1966 World Cup final, Jack and Bobby Charlton returned to their Northumberland birthplace, Ashington, to be greeted as kings in a colliery town rechristened “Charltonville” for the day.
The brothers rode through town in an open-topped Rolls Royce for an evening of celebration topped off with a gala dance organised by the Ashington Mineworkers Federation. Perched in the vintage Rolls, in August 1966, the Charltons looked like returning movie stars. They were never to seem so close again.
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