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Connor

25 Thursday Jun 2026

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Friday 3rd April 2026 ko 18:00

Northern League Division One

EASINGTON COLLIERY 2 (Elliott 42 Anderson 90+4)

HORDEN COMMUNITY WELFARE 1 (Campbell 66)

Att 770

Entry £7

Programme £2

If the other two games that day were all about host clubs new to the Northern League, then the day’s finale was all about a club extremely well entrenched in the league. I’d been speaking to the league’s Mike Amos- who commented to expect a gigantic local derby, with a crowd to match. He wasn’t wrong….

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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 →