A report from Chilean newspaper, El Reportero. This has been translated using Google Translate- so the English is not perfect.
The museum is in a ghost-town of Humberstone, which has a connection with the UK that is best explained by this BBC article. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-31090757
Only daughter of Chilean Jorge Robledo born in Alianza and who triumphed in English football, donated valuable material destined for Salitrera Humberstone
November 30, 2021
A valuable original photographic material, which shows who was the prominent Chilean footballer of Newcastle United in England, Jorge Robledo Oliver (1926-1989), known as "The Chilean Legend", donated his only daughter Elizabeth Robledo to the Corporation Museo del Salitre .
According to the goalscorer's daughter, the story begins when Robledo's mother arrives in Chile as a teenager with an English nitrate businessman and his family to work as a governess. Here he meets and marries Arístides Robledo and has their three children, but due to the changing conditions of the saltpeter, the English businessman decides to return to England after a few years, offering the Robledos to travel with them. They travel, but Aristides abandons them at the time of boarding.
This is how in 1931 Elsie Robledo began a new life in South Yorkshire with her three young children Jorge, Eduardo and Walter, where they grew up, were educated and the two oldest connected with football. Jorge, achieve the greatest triumphs.
According to family history, Jorge Robledo, born in the Alianza Office on April 14, 1926, and Eduardo (Ted) on July 26, 1928, joined Barnsley F.C. being adolescents and with contracts signed by their mother, and then to Newcastle United achieving two consecutive titles with the "Magpies" in 1951 and 1952. Jorge was the top scorer in English football in the 51/52 season.
Elizabeth tells that in 1950 both of them were part of the Chilean National Team for the World Cup in Brazil and, later, Colo Colo brought them definitively to Chile in 1953, with whom they obtained the title in 1953 and 1956. Jorge died of a heart attack in Viña del Mar on 1 April 1989 and Ted tragically disappeared on December 6, 1970 while working for the oil companies in the Persian Gulf. His body, sadly, was never found.
FROM VIÑA DEL MAR
The scorer's only daughter resides in Viña del Mar. He recently learned that Humberstone had a two-dimensional human-scale image of his father in the Library of the Saltpeter, in his heyday as a striker for Newcastle United. The news had a profound impact on her, because Jorge Robledo, also nicknamed "the gringo," felt a tremendous connection with Chile and the pampas where he was born, even though he grew up in England. Elizabeth recently came to Iquique to receive the recognition of Outstanding Citizen, which was awarded by the Municipality.
As soon as he arrived, he went to CMS to donate the valuable photographic material showing his father and Newcastle United team “with the newly won trophy from the glorious F.A. Cup in 1952, with the goal of his admired father ”. A second photograph is precisely "the one of that goal that so impacted the legendary English musician John Lennon, who incorporated in the cover of his album" Walls & Bridges "from 1974, an image that he drew at his early 11 years, graphing the famous goal Robledo to make Newcastle United a FA winner Cup 1952 ".
These original images take on a very special feeling, since they were rescued by her when in 1985 the Marga Marga estuary overflowed, destroying valuable material from her father's sports history.
IN HUMBERSTONE
Elizabeth went to the Humberstone Saltpeter and visited the library where the pampas athlete is highlighted with a two-dimensional human-scale image. There is also a photo where Jorge and his brother Eduardo -George and Ted in England-, pose with their mother Elsie, wearing glasses and medals. “I am very excited, also extremely grateful that my father is recognized. Not long ago I had found out about this room and, obviously, I had to come personally ... Being here has shaken me a lot, "he said.
Silvio Zerega, Executive Director of the Salitre Museum Corporation, received the photographic material for its conservation, who described the donation as historical documentary material, which was referred to the Documentation and Research Center.
The Humberstone Documentation Center collects material from all nitrate offices. It has thousands of documentary and photographic pieces, meeting all the conditions for safeguarding the material. It also has a protocol for use by researchers.