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Marra

17 Monday Jan 2022

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Saturday 7th January 2022 ko 15:00

Northern League Division Two

HORDEN COMMUNITY WELFARE 3 (Maskell 19 Wright 62 Ellison 77)

NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY 1 (Butler 2)

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Entry £5

Programme £1.50 (they print 10 per game so if you want one I’d advise letting the club know in advance)

You could say coal made the County Durham village of Horden, and equally you could say coal destroyed it too. Horden Colliery was sunk in 1900 to extract coal from underneath the North Sea. That’s an easy enough sentence to write, but just imagine working the seams- both underground and (literally) under water. Horden was built up to service the colliery on the beach; lines of miners’ cottages in streets numbered from 1 to thirteen, each parallel to the sea. Continue reading →

Lead Zeppelin

05 Thursday Sep 2013

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Monday 26th August 2013 ko 18.00

Welsh Alliance Division Two

MELIDEN 2 (Moss 34 Cassidy 84)

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Entry £3

Programme £1

Badge £3

It seems like the end of an era writing this, the last game of the Welsh hop marathon. A few things have happened since this game, the main one being that Chris attended a league meeting where a full debrief was held on the hop, the first in the league. The good news new that we’ll be back next season, and that the planning has already started.

Yet despite the magnum opus nature of the hop it didn’t feel like we were stretching the joy too far as we approached the mining village of Meliden. Yes, people’s feet still hurt, and there were tired bodies on show, but what we saw as the coaches reached the Mine lifted the soul. Continue reading →