A great post from the BCTHIC archive (original post here) A four hit by Colin Milburn off Joe Fletcher during his innings of 66 in the derby match at Turf Moor. Burnley pressed on relentlessly to maintain their Lancashire League title challenge in two high scoring weekend matches, in each...
Another submission from Chris Egan – the Lancashire League round up – a 17 year old “Young Stanley” gets a mention.
A great find from Chris Egan on “Bails Row” – see below from 1976 – Lowerhouse made an official complaint as Colne didn’t have use any bails…. Lowerhouse suffered 4 run outs!
A funny piece sent in by Chris Egan, found in the Rawtenstall pavilion, from the local press after an interview with Colin Milburn. Stan says: “This is confirmation that today’s players don’t know how lucky they are”
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 salvaging but there were three pieces in the Sports Section relating to Lowerhouse, yes three! The reporting at that time...
A photo for the History Books sent in by Alan Holden sees Brian Higgins holding onto one down the leg side and the point fielder also holding on to something else! Higgy tells us his hat was bright red! Thanks to Twitter and Facebook followers we’ve ascertained it’s versus Haslingden...
A cracker found in the archives – we found this as well as 4 others, all coming up this week.
It would be difficult to describe to some of our young players, like Jonny Whitehead and Joe Martin, who are used to rather ropey summers, how great and sustained the weather was in the long, hot summer of 1976. That year saw Concorde make its first commercial flight, although it failed...
You must be logged in to post a comment.