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Unknown Football Team - Lormor Wednesday Cup Winners

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An unknown football team who had won the Lormor Wednesday Challenge Cup, prior to the Great War.

From 1907 onwards, the Lormor Association Football League & Challenge Cup competition was run in the area, it was restricted to clubs within a 12-mile radius of West Hartlepool GPO.  This Cup may be part of the organisation Competitions. The League appears to have run until the Great War, it was restricted to players aged on average under 21 years of age. The League Sec was H Bennett of 18 , Hampshire Street, or contact Larmor’s business in Lynn Street.

The Lormor family presented a trophy for competition among under 21s in the District Rugby Union post war.

HHT&N 509 {CMc)

Donor : Hartlepool Library Service

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