As noted before this blog is now effectively a history of sport at Ashbrooke and can be treated as such. Please feel free to trawl...

Hi, everybody. You will have realised by now that this blog is no longer active but it still has historical uses. If interested in the...

After over 30 blogs on the club’s history and heritage and a lengthy period of research leading up to the re-dedication of the stand, the...

Sunderland Cricket Club is thought to be the oldest sporting club in north east England to have records kept and maintained since it...

For the last few weeks the weekly blog has concentrated on the run up to the re-dedication of the stand as The Last Stand and the club’s...

Saturday 9 November sees the re-dedication of the stand at Ashbrooke and a 1st XV fixture with Winlaton Vulcans. This is an appropriate...

'On 9 November Ashbrooke Sports Club will be holding a ceremony of re-dedication for its century old and recently refurbished rugby...

In the week leading up to a great day for English rugby and a fortnight leading up to the dedication of The Last Stand, it is an...

'On 9 November Ashbrooke Sports Club will be holding a ceremony of re-dedication for its century old and recently refurbished rugby...

Many Ashbrooke Folk will remember Jon Buddington – rugby player and groundsman at Ashbrooke – and indeed the whole family who had links...

On Saturday 9 November Ashbrooke Sports Club in Sunderland will be holding a ceremony of rededication for its century old and recently...

Followers of the Rugby World Cup cannot have failed to notice that the All Blacks have been able to put three brothers out on the park...

The bowls section of Ashbrooke Sports Club aka Sunderland Bowling Club is very strong at the moment with both male and female members...

Sunderland RFC has been in existence for almost 150 years. During that time, the match day programme has been something of a moveable...

As an incredibly exciting Ashes series comes to a close, club archivist Keith Gregson reflects on a fascinating historical link between...

It looks like last week’s athletics’ blog was well timed. Not only did many club and Strollers’ members take part in the Great North Run...

Although Ashbrooke Sports Club has never had an athletics section as such, it has always had strong links with athletics. The opening day...

A recent heritage blog featured two magnificent photographs of Sachin Tendulkar, (one of the greatest cricketers of all time), batting at...

The interest shown in the last two blogs on Sachin Tendulkar reminded me of an interesting Ashbrooke link with another cricketing great –...

Such has been the response to the blog on Sachin Tendulkar’s appearance at Ashbrooke as a 17 year old in 1990 that I have delved further...