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1920 - Hartlepool YMCA

What we know about this image :

Hartlepool YMCA Rugby team posing with a ball on which is written 1919-20 in their club colours of dark blue and light blue hoops. A Church Official with a clerical collar is seated in the photo. The same man along with the man standing behind him and J. Snowden (on the extreme right) are also in a photo in the same location with the YMCA Billiard Team. Another official mentioned in Press reports is G Cambridge.

A typical YMCA side from this season is R Watson; F S Perryman, R H Harrison, J M Easton, F G Broadbent; E Johnson, F T Hoy, O W Simmonds, G Moore, A B Hindmarch, G H Meynell, E Brownless, W D Marshall, H Jones, H J Proctor, many of them may be on this photograph.

The Rugby club part of the YMCA, eventually amalgamated with Seaman’s Institute but the new club folded in 1928.

Research shows that the Y.M.C.A. occupied premises at 64, High Street and that the Rev J.A.Bedworth, the vicar at St Marks United Methodist Chapel, later the Morison Hall, was chaplain to the YMCA. It is likely that he is the person who appears in the clerical collar both in this picture and others from the YMCA. The building in the background is currently not known, it may possibly be the YMCA in High Street which housed substantial recreatioal facilties 

YMCA appear from time to time as fielding a Rugby side as far back as the 1880s.


(Collection id q02419).

Date (of image) : 1920

Donor : Hartlepool Museum Service

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