History

The universally applauded appearance of Stan Heaton on Sky Sports recently prompted an interesting enquiry from Pat Rodgers a teacher from New South Wales.  Pat is writing a book about

As Stan mentioned in his recent notes, the club has helped to raise a considerable amount of money for the NHS.  The link between our local cricket clubs and good

The 1980 Martini Trophy Cup Final was a remarkable occurrence in the history of both Lowerhouse CC and the Lancashire League. For a club that had been in the doldrums,

Clive Spencer has sent in the below for the archive. He said: Having a tidy out and came across an old Burnley Express for 15 June1976. Not a lot worth

In April 1980, the Express ran some retro articles about pre-war amateur sport, particularly cricket and football, and about Burnley during the war years, which prompted readers to send in

A great piece sent in for the archive by Graham Bushell – features some well known Lowerhouse names.

By Stan Heaton The Express Cup was a competition organised by the Express Group of Newspapers covering our area viz. Colne Times, Nelson Leader and Burnley Express. The competition began

Another one for the archive sent in by Burnley Civic Trust – Albert Salkeld retires as chairman in December 1956.

Two more pieces for the archive today, date from 1958 with our professional Ranga Sohoni. He appeared in four Tests for India but in his only year at Lowerhouse managed

Ed McCullough has sent in some clippings of the Burnley Express and Lancashire Evening Telegraph after our win and league win at Rawtenstall.

Following hard on the heels of Roger Bromley’s wonderful podcast we feature two photographs from the 1980 season showing Roger in full bowling pomp in an express Cup game. The season

Roger Bromley has sent in the below photo he found of Lowerhouse Fold in 1880. Stan commented: “First recorded record of the Hope family eagerly awaiting the gates to open

A sombre read from the Lancashire Evening Telegraph in 1995. LOWERHOUSE CC continued their financial progress with a profit of £1,850 last year. But treasurer David Wren says everything in

By Stan Heaton Post script – from the 1974 archive   As mentioned, – Alan Holden was missing from the team photo. The reason being that the photo was taken on

Another great find sent in by Callum Munro of Scottish Cricket Past Present and Future of a Burnley Express clipping in 1931 of the Death of Mr W. B. Uttley