YORK City will travel to Boldon CA on Wednesday, April 13 to launch the Wearside League outfit’s new Sam Bartram floodlights.

The celebration game will see two of the goalkeeping legend’s former teams lock horns with the future Charlton Athletic player having started out at Boldon Villa – as CA were then known – in the 1920s and 1930s while working as a miner.

Bartram first played as a half-back and centre-forward for Boldon before catching the Addicks’ eyes during a spell as stand-in ’keeper.

He went on to help Charlton finish runners up in the old First Division and to an FA Cup final victory either side of the Second World War, gaining a reputation as England’s finest-ever uncapped ’keeper.

Bartram also turned out for the Minstermen 75 times as a war-time guest and scored twice from the penalty spot against Darlington before returning to Bootham Crescent to guide the club to their first-ever Football League promotion campaign in 1959.

He is still only one of five managers – along with Tom Lockie, Tom Johnston, Denis Smith and Alan Little – to have taken City up a division.

The late Bartram’s daughter Moira – a York schoolgirl in the 1950s – will travel from Canada to switch on the lights for the match and City boss Gary Mills has indicated he will play in the game.