1978: Squad Photo
Another batch of squad photos has been sent in by Nigel Stockley from the LET archives. Today the squad photo is from 1978.
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1978: Lowerhouse scrape a thriller against Nelson
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 – the time of the big spenders. Full scorecard located here
1978: Lowerhouse collapse to 54 all out
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, Full scorecard here
1978: House sign Ul-Ghani
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 21 league innings and took 72 wickets. Full profile here
1978: The last minute replacement Stan, is the winner!
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, unusual finds and we’re starting off this week run of 4 different cuttings with a great story. Stan looks to have been called up on...
1978 – Alan Holden welcoming Mohinder Amarnath to the club
Todays’ post is another photo sent in from Alan Holden. Alan was club captain at the time of Mohinder “Jimmy” Amarnath becoming pro and the photo is him welcoming him to the club in 1978. You can see the old pavilion corner in the background. Amarnath took 263 wickets and scored...
1978 – Joe Waterworth – In Picture
Further to Stan’s tribute to Joe and his generation, we know from our records that there were Waterworths involved in the club pre-World War 1 and for many years afterwards, so presumably Joe was from the same family.</> Anne Cochrane thought it might be nice to add a photo of...
1978: A trip down Lowerhouse Lane
In 1978 the Camp David Summit between Israel and Eygpt, with Jimmy Carter playing the honest broker, would lead to Nobel Peace prizes all round. It was a year when there were more technological breakthroughs. The first test-tube baby was born in ’78 and, in Japan, the Space Invaders game was...
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