These are the men who made history for Lowerhouse Cricket Club on Sunday. From BCTHIC For the first time in 61 years of trying, they have reached the final of the Lancashire League’s cup competition. And it co-incides with sponsorship being introduced to the League. Their five wicket win over...
From BCTHIC Date: 9 June 1980 (date of newspaper) Match report of the league match at Lowerhouse against Enfield. (Lowerhouse faced Enfield again, the day after in the new Martini trophy, and again the following Sunday with Lowerhouse going on to win and eventually progress to the final losing to...
The 1980 Martini Trophy Cup Final was a remarkable occurrence in the history of both Lowerhouse CC and the Lancashire League. For a club that had been in the doldrums, reaching a cup final was some achievement. It was the first time I think in history that the Worsley Cup...
By Stan Heaton The Express Cup was a competition organised by the Express Group of Newspapers covering our area viz. Colne Times, Nelson Leader and Burnley Express. The competition began way back, was abandoned and then reinstated in the late 1970s and 1980s before it again fell away. Clubs rotated...
Following hard on the heels of Roger Bromley’s wonderful podcast we feature two photographs from the 1980 season showing Roger in full bowling pomp in an express Cup game. The season was a good marker of progress. From the darkest hour in 1975 (bottom by 18 points) the side had clawed...
Anne Cochrane has sent in a recent addition to the Civic Trust Image Collection – quite a few Lowerhouse faces on this photo: Burnley Express 19 Feb. 1980: Burnley Grammar School Old Boys (left) and Belvedere line up before the start of the local derby at Towneley on Saturday. Bert...
A photo has appeared on Facebook from Michael John Bailey, with the caption “Must have been a big game at Lowerhouse?”. Do you know when this was? So far we have suggestions from Stan that it will be early 80s, he thinks maybe the Rawtenstall game in 1982 when we...
Nigel from the LancashireLeague.com is on the lookout for our membership booklet from 1980 – specifically for the Third Eleven fixtures. If anyone has this to hand, please can they get in touch via email to adam@lowerhousecc.com
Presentation night from 1980 sees football superstar Leighton James delivering the awards.
Below are 2 extracts in a bumper pull out of the 1980 Express Cup in which Lowerhouse won. Photos showing Roger Bromley taking the wickets and the squad lifting aloft the trophy.
Todays History Books post is a two page preview of the Burnley Express’ write up on the Martini Final from 1980. Lowerhouse played and beat East Lancs. Full with mug shots and a write up below. We have the write up of the result coming to the site shortly.
Photo by Alan Holden – Text by Paul Hargreaves There has always been an edge to the Burnley/Lowerhouse rivalry and sometimes it has spilled over to be more serious than that. In 1980, though, some of the players from each club co-operated in a most memorable campaign in the Bass...
Lowerhouse got to their first Worsley Cup final (known as the Martini Cup at the time) in 1980 by beating Rishton. They went on to be beaten by East Lancs in the final (here is a write up on the Lancashire League website) A photo sent in by Alan Holden,...
One of the most enjoyable things for me during my time as a player at Lowerhouse was the quality of professionals I was privileged to play alongside and still class as friends today. Along with the Worsley Cup and winning the League many of my best memories are involving them...
I had a look through the 1990 scorecards on Nigel’s fantastic website recently and as is often said time does dull the individual recollection of games. The highlights, lowlights and funny moments are still relatively fresh in the memory but the main reason for looking at this season in particular...
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