Some of Everton's best-known faces of yesteryear dropped into the National Football Museum ahead of the Goodison club's visit to Deepdale on Tuesday night.
Howard Kendall, Graeme Sharp and Gordon West were the star names on hand to appear at a pre-match signing session.
Kendall was a legendary Everton player and manager.
He was part of 'The Holy Trinity' at the club with Alan Ball and Colin Harvey, and as a manager led the club to success in the FA Cup, League
Championship and European Cup Winners' Cup.
Kendall, of course, began his playing career with Preston.
Sharp was a powerful centre-forward for the club between 1980 and 1991 and the man who scored the first goal in the club's 1985 cup final win.
He is now a well-respected football pundit and works as a fans' liaison officer for the club.
Full-back John Bailey – a key figure in the great sides of the 1980s – and West, former goalkeeper and a regular in the Everton teams that won the championship in the 1962/63 and 1969/70 seasons and the FA Cup in 1966, were also welcomed by the museum.
Everton artefacts on display included the Canon League Trophy won by the club in the 1986/87 season, medals won by Bob Haworth who played for Preston North End and Everton in the 1890s, and Tommy Lawton's cap.
Lawton's last resting place is also the National Football Museum – his ashes are on display at the request of his family.
The signing session was organised by Les Read who runs a website for Everton fans – ifyouknowyourhistory.co.uk and also Exclusive Private
Signings, epssignings.co.uk.
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