1873 – The Inaugural Athletics Day
Another in our series on Cricket Club Athletic Festivals, telling the story of the very first one at Lowerhouse in 1873. Read Part 1 and…
Another in our series on Cricket Club Athletic Festivals, telling the story of the very first one at Lowerhouse in 1873. Read Part 1 and…
The third in our occasional series on Cricket Club Athletic Festivals, this tells the story of the village turning out for one of its own….
The Civic Trust has sent us some photos from our game in the Worsley Cup Final versus Burnley in 1970 which we lost. They are…
Read up on Part 1 here. The second in our occasional series on Cricket Club Athletics Festivals, this sets the scene for what became a…
This is the first in an occasional series by Anne Cochrane telling the story of the Victorian phenomenon of Athletics Festivals which were crucial in…
By Anne Cochrane On 27th October, 1939, the Lancashire League Secretary wrote to all the clubs: Incidentally, the war isn’t mentioned a great deal in…
23 Nov 1969 Lowerhouse Cricket Club, West End, Liverpool Road, Burnley Taken from the Burnley Express – sent in by Anne Cochrane via the Civic…
Photo kindly sent in by https://www.bcthic.org/ 16th May 1969 Lowerhouse entertain Colne tomorrow at the West End. This recent picture shows, standing: D. Hall, J….
Thanks to Groundwork Direct who sent this in. 15 September 1968. Holland, Jones, Wade & Hughes.Higgin, Blackhurst Picture credit https://www.bcthic.org/
The Civic Trust have posted another brilliant Lowerhouse featured article. You can check it out here. Anne has shared the photos (plus extras with us)…
Anne and the Civil Trust society have again come up trumps with some great images from the Burnley Express in 1969. Anne said: ‘There were…
Anne Cochrane has sent in a recent addition to the Civic Trust Image Collection – quite a few Lowerhouse faces on this photo: Burnley Express…
After this weeks post about Brian Moorhouse, Stan got in touch; Brian was a very tidy all rounder and I had the pleasure of playing…
The following has been sent in from Anne Cochrane who has been working with a The Civic Trust, getting a great image library together. A…
We decided to build on our post of The Lancashire League table of the Decade and update the good work on this page on the…
We’ve put together the Lancashire League standings for 2010-2019 to see how each team got on this decade. Needless to say, this decade has 100%…
After our mammoth attempt at getting our Amateur Player Numbers last week, we have been able to put together our “Amateur All Time Batting Averages”…
Some sad news breaking in the cricketing world that unfortunately ex-Lowerhouse professional Basil Butcher has passed away. Basil was pro in 1962 scoring 1055 league…
After an idea from Joe Beneduce and Matt Hope we’ve painstakingly been through our archive of players who have ever played a Lancashire League game…
By the end of the First World War, out of a Lowerhouse membership of around 400, 80 were in uniform, although we do not know…
In the last few weeks the cricket club has lost many loyal time served members. Adding to this is today’s news that patron Michael Carson…
The club has been re-awarded its clubmark status for the next 3 years from the ECB. The club would like to put on record thanks…
Blez’s piece we reported on, earlier in the summer has now gone from physical to an online article. You can read it here
Adding to the 1914 and 1925 Bazaar programmes we have our third and final installment from 1934 Check out more in the History Books here….
We previously posted about the 1890 Athletics Festival. We have now got our hands on the programme from the 1905 Athletics Festival. As always, you…