Not a good image but a grainy record of the “Nomads” XV that lifted the Pyman Cup when it was first put up by Harold Pyman in 1903 – 04, to start the Competition that still runs in the area, showing not just the Cup but, hanging from the table displaying the Cup, are the medals in silver and gold awarded to each player.
The Nomads name appears over the years in Junior Circles, in 1892 they were based in the "Enterprise Inn" in Dover Street, West Hartlepool.
Date (of image) : 1904
Donor : Hartlepool & District RFU
Creator : Unknown
Part of the "Hartlepool & District RFU" collection
Location
Images of some of the Pyman League Clubs in the years before the Great War, the posters are Sandwich Board items which wuld have posted around the two towns on the morning of the game, advertising the days Rugby Fayre on the Friarage Field. Few pictures, medals or records appear to have survived from this time.
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