Look Out For The Programme!
Sunderland RFC has been in existence for almost 150 years. During that time, the match day programme has been something of a moveable...
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Keith Gregson
- Sep 25, 2019
- 6 min
Ashbrooke's Finest Day - June 9, 1926
As an incredibly exciting Ashes series comes to a close, club archivist Keith Gregson reflects on a fascinating historical link between...
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Keith Gregson
- Sep 13, 2019
- 1 min
…AND MORE ON OUR ATHLETIC HERITAGE
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...
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Keith Gregson
- Sep 6, 2019
- 2 min
A HERITAGE OF ATHLETICS
Although Ashbrooke Sports Club has never had an athletics section as such, it has always had strong links with athletics. The opening day...
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Keith Gregson
- Aug 30, 2019
- 2 min
Preparing for 'The Last Stand'
A recent heritage blog featured two magnificent photographs of Sachin Tendulkar, (one of the greatest cricketers of all time), batting at...
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Keith Gregson
- Aug 27, 2019
- 2 min
AND GEOFFREY CAME TOO …
The interest shown in the last two blogs on Sachin Tendulkar reminded me of an interesting Ashbrooke link with another cricketing great –...
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Keith Gregson
- Aug 21, 2019
- 1 min
More on the Little Master
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...
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Keith Gregson
- Aug 19, 2019
- 2 min
THE LITTLE MASTER DEBUTS AT ASHBROOKE
During the summer of 1990 the first match of the Indian cricket tour was fixed to be played at Ashbrooke. A one day contest with the...
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Keith Gregson
- Aug 8, 2019
- 2 min
ASHBROOKE’S RARE 1878 AUSTRALIAN CRICKET PHOTOGRAPH – THE PLOT THICKENS!
Update on ‘When Sunderland Cricketers tested the Australians’ blog Since writing my piece on the Australian cricket sides playing in...
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Keith Gregson
- Aug 2, 2019
- 2 min
WHEN SAFC PLAYED AT ASHBROOKE – THE 1882/3 SEASON
When entering the Ashbrooke club by its main door, visitors will be aware of a blue plaque high up on the left hand side. The reason for...
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Keith Gregson
- Jul 29, 2019
- 3 min
WHEN SUNDERLAND CRICKETERS ‘TESTED’ THE AUSTRALIANS
In a few days’ time (1st August), the much-awaited Ashes series will get under way and it may come as a surprise to some readers to learn...
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Keith Gregson
- Jul 19, 2019
- 2 min
RECRUITING FOR RUGBY - SUNDERLAND RFC LEADS THE WAY AFTER THE FIRST WORLD WAR
At some point over the next few weeks ( to be noted in one of the future blogs) the RFU’s heritage blog ‘From the Vaults’ will feature an...
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Keith Gregson
- Jul 12, 2019
- 2 min
Virginia – Champion at Ashbrooke (and Wimbledon!)
Only three English ladies have won the ladies’ singles championship at Wimbledon since the Second World War – Ann Haydon Jones, Angela...
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Keith Gregson
- Jul 4, 2019
- 2 min
ASHBROOKE’S WIMBLEDON STARS
With Wimbledon well under way for another year, it is a fitting time to look at a couple of club members who took part in this – the...
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Keith Gregson
- Jul 2, 2019
- 1 min
AS WORLD CUP CRICKET COMES TO DURHAM - MORE ON ASHBROOKE’S WORLD CUP CRICKET LINKS
In our very first cricket heritage blog it was noted; ‘This summer sees Sri Lanka, South Africa, New Zealand and the West Indies playing...
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Keith Gregson
- Jun 20, 2019
- 2 min
Hockey - A Tale of Internationals Past and Present
According to a club handbook from 1895 hockey ‘was introduced at Ashbrooke in the winter of 1892-3’ as ‘an enjoyable means of exercise...
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Keith Gregson
- Jun 14, 2019
- 2 min
Squash Approaches its Sixtieth!
One of the authors of the club’s 1960s history ‘To Ashbrooke and Beyond' noted, there had been an attempt to get squash going at the club...
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Keith Gregson
- Jun 7, 2019
- 2 min
Who's for Tennis?
Although tennis now plays a relatively minor role in the life of Ashbrooke Sports Club, this was not always the case. The tennis section...
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Keith Gregson
- May 30, 2019
- 1 min
Your Club, Your Heritage
Today marks the 132nd anniversary of Ashbrooke Sports Club. We asked for your connections to the club to mark the occasion, here are the...
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Keith Gregson
- May 23, 2019
- 2 min
Whitsuntide - A Time To Remember
The 1/7 (territorial) battalion of the Durham Light Infantry landed in France on 19 April 1915. By early May its members were moving...
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