Celebrations for the 75th Anniversary of the Founding of the Old Boys club took place both on and off the field and this picture show the distinguished “Top Table” that sat down at the Borough Hall to mark the occasion.
Left to right, .John Scott (Secretary Durham County), Councillor Bill Iseley (Mayor of Hartlepool), Rex.Smith (Treasurer, Durham County), Bill Grigg (President, Old Boys), Mr Harold Turnbull (President Durham County),Ted Leadbitter (M.P. for the Hartlepools), and Coun. Ken Macintyre, Chairman of Parks & Recreation.
Date (of image) : 1969
Donor : Hartlepool RFC
Creator : Hartlepool Mail
Part of the "Hartlepool RFC Collection." collection
Location
Images from Old Boys’ seasons after their spilt from the 1st company Boys Brigade in 1932. Initially housed at the Old Mill, they moved to Middlegate and were there until 1945 when they acquired Mayfield House on Friar Terrace, whilst still playing on Grayfields. They managed to play through the War, celebrating their Golden Jubilee, and finally centralised all their Rugby onto Mayfield Park (the old Hartlepool ‘Rec) in 1970.
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