One of two surviving Medals awarded to the winners of the first Pyman Cup Competition in 1904, the whereabouts of the medal in this picture is believed to be in Hartlepool but no one knows for certain. The only other known medal is owned by the family of Mr Tom Ridley, who appeared in the winning West Hartlepool Nomads side in 1904, that medal is in Arundel, Queensland, Australia.
Date (of image) : 30/4/1904
Donor : Gary Johnson
Creator : Fatorini & Sons, Bradford
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 so any information would be appreciated on the League matters.
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