By Anne Cochrane This image, newly added to the Burnley Civic Trust Heritage Image website, www.bcthic.org, from the Burnley Express of 30th June, 1962, shows the Lawrie Shield winning Rosegrove Secondary School Cricket team, which includes Brian Higgin (back row 2nd from the right). A week later on 7th July...
By Ernie Whittaker I don’t know how far I shall persevere with this as the old memory is not what it was and the sharper of you might notice the odd inaccuracy here and there. I am going to start with something that might astonish younger Lowerhouse supporters. Imagine Sean...
From a very hot Sydney I thought I might warm you all up with some memories plucked at random from 60 years ago when I was a young whippersnapper. So, gather round fossils for a bit of a trip down memory lane. In those days my junior membership cost just...
urnley Express and News July 25, 1962 A new home – but the old club spirit is still there Lowerhouse C.C. Celebrate their 100 years with the opening of their new pavilion on Saturday. While it is a matter of regret that their playing record for this important season does...
Another great find from Anne Cochrane, the first team meet 1962 Pro Basil Butcher
Another great library find from Anne Cochrane. Out with the old Pavillion and in with the new.
Another cut out from The Burnley Express spotted by Anne – the Lowerhouse 1961 team that won the Express Cricket Challenge Cup
A great Burnley Express cut out found by Anne Cochrane of the new Pavillion being opened in 1962, mentioning Jack Hayes and Ken Smalley.
Politically 1962 will be remembered most for the Cuban Missile Crisis. An increasingly confident Soviet Union, who had sent cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin into space the year before, were trying to flex their superpower muscles, by putting nuclear bombs on the island of staunch ally Cuba. The Americans blockaded Cuba and...
Lowerhouse Cricket Club was formed in Queen Victoria’s Silver Jubilee Year of 1862. The provision of land for a permanent ground by the Dugdale Family (owners of the large cotton mill in Lowerhouse) seems to have acted as a catalyst which saw several local clubs merge to form the club...
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