BOLTON Wanderers memorabilia fetched more than £4,000 at an auction at Sotheby's.

A unique piece of the club's history, a book containing the signed manuscript minutes from directors' meetings at Burnden Park, was sold for £1,527 at the London auction.

The leather bound book, Lot 404, covered Wanderers' business from 1926 to 1933.

It went missing from Burnden Park shortly before the club moved to its new home at the Reebok Stadium.

Other Wanderers related items were also auctioned.

A 1923 Bolton v West Ham FA Cup final programme was sold for £1,057. Before the sale, the experts reckoned it would fetch £850.

Another copy of the programme but with a sellotaped spine was bought for £822.

A fourth memento, a 1926 Bolton v Manchester City FA Cup final programme sold for £763.

The period covered by the minutes book was a momentous time in the history of the Wanderers.

The team was rejoicing after winning the FA Cup final but then in 1927/28, it found itself at the bottom of the league for the first time in 18 years.

The club celebrated another FA Cup victory in 1929 but this was followed by an unsettled period in the early 1930s when players left because of poor wages.

The humiliation of being relegated from the First Division in 1933 for the first time in 22 years was also featured in the book.

The lot also included a letter referring to the Burnden disaster written by the club's chairman and secretary in 1946.