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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Cheshire,England,UK,WA4,Fletcher Street,Warrington,WA4 6PY,RFL,1895,Hunslet,celebrating,the,birth,Blue Plaque,on,wall,in,of,rugby league,rugby,league,heritage,history,Wilderspool,stadium,on this site,7th September,7th Sep,07/09/1895,first,rule,1st,match
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R0X337 - Celebrating the birth of rugby league - Blue Plaque in Fletcher Street, adjacent to the old Wilderspool Wire stadium.
RFL 120 Years
On this site on 7th September 1895
Warrington played their first home game, under the rules of the Rugby League, (then known as the Northern Union)
Warrington v Hunslet
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2MKF8CY - William John Boston, MBE (born 6 August 1934) is a Welsh former professional rugby league footballer who played as a wing or centre. Born in Cardiff, Wales, Boston started his career as a rugby union player before joining Wigan in 1953. He spent the next 15 years at Wigan, where he scored a club-record 478 tries in his 488 appearances for the club. He finished his career at Blackpool Borough before retiring in 1970. He also represented Great Britain in 31 Test matches, and was part of the team that won the 1960 Rugby League World Cup.
Regarded as one of the sport's greatest ever players, Boston scored a total of 571 tries in his career, making him the second-highest try scorer in rugby league history. He is an original inductee of the British Rugby League Hall of Fame, Welsh Sports Hall of Fame and Wigan Warriors Hall of Fame, and was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1996 Birthday Honours for services to the community in Wigan, Greater Manchester.
Early life
Born on 6 August 1934 at Angelina Street, Butetown, Cardiff, Boston was the sixth of eleven children born to John Boston (a merchant seaman from Sierra Leone) and Nellie who came from Cardiff's Irish community
On 13 March 1953 Wigan chairman Joe Taylor and vice-chairman Billy Gore travelled to Boston's home in Cardiff and offered him £1,000 to sign for them. Although that was very large offer, Boston's mother rejected it on his behalf. A second offer of £1,500 was made in cash, and the money was spread out on the table in five pound notes to show the family how much money it was.
Boston stated that he still did not want to sign, but his mother had given their word, and Boston signed the contract.
Boston made his 'A' team début a crowd of 8,000 assembled inside Central Park, Wigan. He made his first team début against Barrow in November 1953 scoring a try.
Billy Boston played stand-off in Wigan's 8“13 defeat by Oldham in the 1957“58 Lancashire Cup Final
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JF24MT - WSB
Typical malty rich base, brewed with Pioneer & Bramling Cross hops giving the beer a crisp & refreshing bittering with aromas of blackcurrent and citrus. - 4T's Brewery, Unit 20 Manor Industrial Estate, Lower Wash Lane, Warrington, Cheshire.
The Taverns Terrific Tipples or 4T's first started brewing in June 2010, located in a garage on Rydal Avenue.
During May 2012 the brewery relocated to Unit 15 EBL Centre, Picow Farm Road, Runcorn and expanded to a 5BBL plant previously at Blue Ball.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 9614121513 - 'View this whole set here. If you do Twitter add me here.
Thirty-eight is the 11th distinct semiprime and the 7th in the {2.q} family. It is the initial member of the third distinct semiprime pair (38, 39). 38 is the sum of the squares of the first three primes.
38 is the atomic number of strontium and the 38th parallel north is the pre-Korean War boundary between North Korea and South Korea.
The number 38 was especially prominent in Norse mythology. The number was said to represent unnatural bravery, characteristic of the legendary heroes of Norse sagas. Most legendary sagas were divided into 38 chapters, and the number often recurred throughout stories, with the heroes combating giants or other beasts in groups of 38. The number came to be adopted by the Hardrada clan, and was displayed on their crest in the form of 38 ravens set around 38 outward-facing arrows.
The number of games that each team in the current English Premiership, the top division in English Association Football, plays in a season. Its the number of years it took the Israelites to travel from Kadesh Barnea to the Zered valley in Deuteronomy.
This is gate 38 from the Warrington Wolves Halliwell Jones Stadium
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DCYJMN - By the late 1990s, Warrington RLFC's spiritual home Wilderspool Stadium had become decrepit and unfit for purpose, and so the club looked to move to a new stadium. Before settling on the site which had formerly housed the Tetley Walker brewery, a site in Burtonwood was considered but these plans were rejected.
The last competitive game at Wilderspool (after 105 years at the ground) was played on 21 September 2003, when Warrington beat Wakefield Trinity Wildcats 52-12.
The stadium was notable for bucking the common trend of modern stadia by including terracing areas rather than being an all-seater stadium. There were originally 4 stands in the stadium “ the North Stand (reserved seating), the East Stand (originally unreserved seating but later became reserved seating), the South Stand (home terracing), and the West Stand (visitors' terracing and overflow of home terracing).
It also has enormous pitch dimensions of 120 m x 74 m, as requested by Warrington's head coach of the time, Paul Cullen, due to his desire to play expansive rugby.
The official capacity of the stadium is 15,200.
The stadium has already enjoyed several memorable moments, perhaps most notably Andrew Johns' debut for Warrington against Leeds Rhinos in a 33-16 victory on 10 September 2005.
During the Co-operative Championship grand final rugby league game between Featherstone Rovers and Halifax on 26 September 2010, a fire beneath the terraced West Stand broke out, forcing all of the fans housed in the stand to be evacuated onto the field, holding up the game for around 45 minutes. Following a safety inspection the spectators were eventually allowed back in. However, when the smell of smoke failed to disperse, there was a further hold up as the fans were moved to the East Stand. The game resumed with no further interruptions. The fire is being treated as arson.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DCYTGF - Brian Eyrl Bevan (1924“1991) was an Australian professional rugby league footballer of the 1940s, 50s and 60s who became the only player ever to have been inducted into both the Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame and British Rugby League Hall of Fame.
An Other Nationalities representative winger, Bevan scored a world record 796 tries, mainly for the Warrington RLFC. In 2008, the centenary year of rugby league in Australia, he was named on the wing of Australia's Team of the Century (1908-2007). Bevan was the only player chosen in the team who had never represented Australia in a test match.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DCYW23 - Brian Eyrl Bevan (1924“1991) was an Australian professional rugby league footballer of the 1940s, 50s and 60s who became the only player ever to have been inducted into both the Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame and British Rugby League Hall of Fame. An Other Nationalities representative winger, Bevan scored a world record 796 tries, mainly for the Warrington RLFC.
In 2008, the centenary year of rugby league in Australia, he was named on the wing of Australia's Team of the Century (1908-2007). Bevan was the only player chosen in the team who had never represented Australia in a test match.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DCYW94 - Halliwell Jones Stadium is a rugby league stadium in Warrington, England that is the home ground of Warrington Wolves. It has also staged Challenge Cup semi-finals, the European Nations Final and the National League Grand Finals' Day.
By the late 1990s, Warrington RLFC's spiritual home Wilderspool Stadium had become decrepit and unfit for purpose, and so the club looked to move to a new stadium. Before settling on the site which had formerly housed the Tetley Walker brewery, a site in Burtonwood was considered but these plans were rejected. The last competitive game at Wilderspool (after 105 years at the ground) was played on 21 September 2003, when Warrington beat Wakefield Trinity Wildcats 52-12.
The stadium was notable for bucking the common trend of modern stadia by including terracing areas rather than being an all-seater stadium. There were originally 4 stands in the stadium “ the North Stand (reserved seating), the East Stand (originally unreserved seating but later became reserved seating), the South Stand (home terracing), and the West Stand (visitors' terracing and overflow of home terracing). It also has enormous pitch dimensions of 120 m x 74 m, as requested by Warrington's head coach of the time, Paul Cullen, due to his desire to play expansive rugby.
The official capacity of the stadium is 15,200.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DCYWHB - Brian Eyrl Bevan (1924“1991) was an Australian professional rugby league footballer of the 1940s, 50s and 60s who became the only player ever to have been inducted into both the Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame and British Rugby League Hall of Fame.
An Other Nationalities representative winger, Bevan scored a world record 796 tries, mainly for the Warrington RLFC. In 2008, the centenary year of rugby league in Australia, he was named on the wing of Australia's Team of the Century (1908-2007). Bevan was the only player chosen in the team who had never represented Australia in a test match.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4489490325 - 'My local rugby club and its hero Brian Bevan who as an unassuming slight looking player, scored a world record 796 tries in his time for Warrington RLFC. He was actually Austrailian by birth.
As his mosiac is made of hundreds of yellow and blue bricks (the colours of The Wires strip) this is a family club and the people named here are the true wires, who invested \u00a335 each. Replica bricks could also be purchased for \u00a325 each up until spring 2004.
Warrington Wolves are a professional rugby league football club and compete in Super League, Europe's top-level rugby league competition. They are yet to win the super league trophy, but its sure to come after lifting the Challenge Cup in August, 2009.
It was one of the original twenty-two rugby clubs in 1895 that formed the Northern Rugby Football Union, so has long roots. The winger Brian Bevan named here made his d\u00e9but for Warrington in 1945 and was one of the teams most iconic players. He is honoured by a statue at the eastern gates end of the North Stand at the entrance to the Halliwell Jones Stadium.
This image was taken at the Halliwell Jones Stadium, which s their recent new home.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3812249269 - 'A variety of leather balls for all types of sports in an antique shop window in Edinburgh, Scotland. Road out to Loanhead.
The red leather english cricket ball is where the eye is drawn to. Below it is a leather hand stitched Hearts (Heart of Midlothian) 1956 soccer football. Hearts is one of the two major city teams in the east of Scotland together with Hibs (Hibernian).
The leather Hearts ball celebrates the Heart of Midlothian 1956 team, who won the Scottish Cup by defeating Glasgow Celtic 3-1 at Hampden Park. In the same year they also finished League runners-up. This included Hearts legends Freedie Glidden (Captain), Alex Young, Conn, Bauld and Wardhaugh. Programmes from this year are a great find if rumminging around in the cities antique and curio shops.
Another Scottish legend www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3828011848/
(c) Hotpix Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
