Sports Nostalgia
Egremont evergreen Mark hangs up his boots after top career in the game
Published 14 May 2008
EGREMONT rugby league legend Mark ‘Reg’ Bawden has hung up his boots, believe it or not, after seeing the last of his first team action at the ripe old age of 43.
Haig Museum wants your help
Published 23 April 2008
RECOGNISE anyone? Haig Colliery Mining Museum is asking for help from The Whitehaven News’ readers to put names to faces in this 1944-45 picture of fab footie team Haig United.
Gentleman Ike was one of sport’s true all-rounders
Published 23 April 2008
THE late Ike Mossop was a throwback to a more gentle but no less competitive era of cricket, long before Kerry Packer changed the face of the game forever and a time when sledging was something you only did when the snow came and pink balls were never dreamed of!
Nostalgia: Harry and Sol had formula for a perfect partnership
Published 10 April 2008
THE greatest double act in the club game were at the heart of one of the finest teams in a golden age for rugby league. Fans travelled in their thousands from all over Cumberland to watch Harry Archer and Sol Roper spark the midfield magic for a magnificent Workington Town team also graced by the late lamented Brian Edgar, Ike Southward and Andy Key.
From top amateur to Haven star, Peter took it all in good humour
Published 26 March 2008
THE best amateur No 7 in the country, having toured the world with Great Britain, might have expected to walk straight into the scrum-half berth when he turned professional. But for Peter Smith it was different, and he knew it.
Routy could ghost his way past rugby’s best defences
Published 12 March 2008
MOST footballers hang up their boots when it’s time to retire, but John Routledge was different. He threw his away – as a symbolic gesture.
Quick, elusive and versatile – Bobby Dazzler was one of the best of his time
Published 27 February 2008
HE was the Bobby Dazzler of Cumbrian rugby – league and union – one of the most talented local players of his generation but, at the same time, his career could be described as mercurial and, at times, enigmatic.
Golden days when scrums were scrums and props were props
Published 15 February 2008
SOCIAL graces were not brought to the front row table in the days when scrums were scrums and props were props.
SERVICES
- Joe Bragg, town's champion, dies at 80
- Death crash couple's drugs cocktail
- A new goal for Scott and Amy...
- Sellafield workers hold ‘fruitful’ talks in pay row
- Stobart pulls out of Cumbria
- I survived quake hell
- Flasher banned
- Biker killed on rocks wasn’t wearing helmet
- Caned until I bled for love of rugby league
- CARLISLE 0 LEEDS 2
- A new goal for Scott and Amy...
- Death crash couple's drugs cocktail
- Sellafield workers hold ‘fruitful’ talks in pay row
- Haven are ton over!
- Flasher banned
- Caned until I bled for love of rugby league
- Mother given supervision order
- Biker killed on rocks wasn’t wearing helmet
- You are killing our county
