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A Guide To The Site

As things start to look up at Ashbrooke I will attempt to reinvigorate the Our Heritage Site. Below is a list of all the articles I have already put on the site. You can access them simply by scrolling through the site to the appropriate date ( or by clicking on the link). If you are not familiar with Ashbrooke or the site I suggest you look at the first two before looking at others. If there is a positive response ( a regular 30 or more 'subscribers' on a regular basis) I may well return to producing further articles. I have only scratched the surface so far. This is an important year for the club's rugby section/Sunderland (Rugby) Football Club and it would be nice to use this site for articles over the season if there is an interest. A separate post will inform on the material you will be able to find on SRFC on the World Rugby Museum site. Meanwhile here are the 40 articles already online on this site;


04 April 2019 - Welcome To Our Archives!

08 April 2019 - Catching Up With Heritage

08 April 2019 A Rugby Round-Up

24 April 2019 – THE SMACK OF LEATHER UPON WILLOW!

30 April 2019 - MAY THE FOURTH IS WITH US AND WE CELEBRATE ‘WOR STARS’ OF THE PAST

07 May 2019 – A BOWLING CLUB WITH HISTORY!

14 May 2019 - Happy Birthday, Dear Ashbrooke

23 May 2019- Whitsuntide - A Time To Remember

30 May 2019- Your Club, Your Heritage

07 June 2019 - Who's for Tennis?

14 June 2019- Squash Approaches its Sixtieth!

20 June 2019 – Hockey - A Tale of Internationals Past and Present

02 July 2019 - AS WORLD CUP CRICKET COMES TO DURHAM - MORE ON ASHBROOKE’S WORLD

04 July 2019- ASHBROOKE’S WIMBLEDON STARS

12 July 2019- Virginia – Champion at Ashbrooke (and Wimbledon!)

19 July 2019- RECRUITING FOR RUGBY - SUNDERLAND RFC LEADS THE WAY AFTER THE FIRST

29 July 2019 WHEN SUNDERLAND CRICKETERS ‘TESTED’ THE AUSTRALIANS

02 August 2019- WHEN SAFC PLAYED AT ASHBROOKE – THE 1882/3 SEASON

08 August 2019- ASHBROOKE’S RARE 1878 AUSTRALIAN CRICKET PHOTOGRAPH – THE PLOT

19 August 2019- THE LITTLE MASTER DEBUTS AT ASHBROOKE

21 August 2019- More on the Little Master

27 August 2019- AND GEOFFREY CAME TOO

30 August 2019- Preparing for 'The Last Stand'

06 September 2019- A HERITAGE OF ATHLETICS

13 September 2019- …AND MORE ON OUR ATHLETIC HERITAGE

25 September 2019- Ashbrooke's Finest Day - June 9, 1926

27 September 2019- Look Out For The Programme!

04 October 2019- Ashbrooke's Prestigious Bowls Trophy

07 October 2019- Oh Brother!

18 October 2019- The Last Stand - Remembering the Rugby Players (1/2)

25 October 2019- Nice to hear from you, Jon!

25 October 2019- The Last Stand (2/2) - Remembering the Rugby Players

29 October 2019- Remembering our England Players

01 November 2019- The Last Stand - Remembering Other Ashbrooke Sportsmen

09 November 2019- Unveiling the Last Stand - An Appropriate Fixture

16 November 2019- Ashbrooke Heritage and Education - A New Venture

22 November 2019- ASHBROOKE HERITAGE AND EDUCATION – LESSON TWO – CRICKET IN SUNDERLAND

10 March 2023- When the Cossacks came to Ashbrooke

20 March 2023- 1987 – A Hundred Years On – The Club

25 March 2023- Facing A Challenge - the 1970s


The song is from the 1890s - nothing changes!


Keith Gregson - www.keithgregson.com/



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This has just gone onto the World Rugby Museum web site https://worldrugbymuseum.com/from-the-vaults/players/juan-arzuaga As you will see -his first recorded 1st XV match was against Sunderland 1st XV

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