The Lowerhouse Canteen
With the sad news of the Lowerhouse Canteen closing down last week after 99 years in business, Anne our historian has done some digging and…
With the sad news of the Lowerhouse Canteen closing down last week after 99 years in business, Anne our historian has done some digging and…
Upon digitalising our History Books, I thought it would be beneficial visualising our League standings on each year of our existence. See graph below –…
Next in our quest of digitalising the archive is the AGM booklet from 1876. You can view previous submissions here
Clive Spencer was going through some old photograph scans that his grandmothers, brothers daughter(!) had sent and unearthed this gem. It is a very young looking…
JULY 2002 – A GOLDEN RECORD BREAKING MONTH FOR LOWERHOUSE’S JACQUES RUDOLPH Lowerhouse signed Jacques Rudolph a 21 year old South African as the club’s…
In our next addition to The History Books we have our “Cricket and Social Club rules” from 1953, with our trophy tally at that point,…
Another blast from a far distant past today. We have the AGM booklet from 1875. This is the latest in our feature of digitalising the…
Next, in our treasure trove of archive documents is the 1874 AGM booklet. In the last week we’ve featured booklets from 1869 and 1872. Todays…
This article was featured in the Not the Spin fanzine of the Lancashire Cricket Action Group in April 2019. You can buy this fanzine and…
We posted last week the AGM booklet from 1969, a whopping 150 years ago. This week sees 3 years after that in 1872. Some of…
We are in the process of digitalising our entire archive of physical documents. This is currently stored and looked after by Anne Cochrane – due…
We have been sent some more great pictures from the Civic Trust, with three images published in the Burnley Express on 6th August,1976. These are from…
Here’s a little bit of weekend morning reading for you – we’ve put together a list of leading wicket takers and run scorers in all…
By Anne Cochrane – All images copyrighted by The Civic Trust Some of you may have noticed that the “From the Express Archives” feature on…
We are pleased to bring a new feature to the website, a proper photo archive! We stash away all of our nearly 22,000 photos but…
We decided to put a little infographic together of the Top 10 batsmen and bowlers of all time, by season. We’ve only included full seasons,…
Some photos sent in by Luke Molloy today of the Juniors in 2008. The team in the blue top are the Under 15s finalists in…
We’re dredging through the good old days this week and it doesn’t get better than this clipping from the Burnley Express, sent in by Burnley…
Anne Cochrane is helping with the project to digitise the Burnley Express archive, and they need help identifying some photos where they have no information….
The last in this weeks history features is another cut out from the Burnley Express with Lowerhouse scraping home against Nelson in 1978. £44 gate…
In today’s piece, Lowerhouse stumbled to 54 all out chasing Ramsbottoms 101 all out in 1978. Only Steve Gee and extras got into double figures,…
Here’s another cutting sent in from the Burnley Express, from 1st September 1978. Lowerhouse signed Nasim Ul-Ghani for the 1979 season. Nasim scored 428 from…
We’ve had a number of paper cuttings form the Burnley Express sent in by friend of the club.. He’s is great at finding the old,…
Lowerhouse CC CIC Ltd held its 12th AGM on Wednesday last incorporating Lowerhouse Village Ltd. The AGM saw the best attended meeting for nearly 20…
This week, we’ve put Joey Hawke in the hot seat – Adam and Paul put some questions to him. 1. I’ll bet Man. Utd’s excellent…