Wigan Album
St Thomas More, Newtown
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Photo: david cushion
Item #: 24132
this is a photo of the the presentation of the evening chronicle shield in 1963,the names are
back rowl/r mick regan, malc mcmahon, john bibby, dave marsh, john mcnamara, jim prior,
jack coates, jimmy hickey,teacher gerry millington.
bottoml/r dave cushion, john davies, matt mahony, danny sullivan, john mcdermott capt,
rob skiffington, jimmy may, johnnie may.
great times!
lot of familiar names here, including Gerry Millingtons. What year was this taken ?
A few St Cuthbert's lads in there - the May twins and Jhn Bibby. Incidently, the equivalent Union team, again lots of St Cuthberts, up at John Rigby also went through undefeated for 5 years. St Cuthbert's was a great place to be!!!
didn,t go to this school but know a few of the lads. think rob skiffington lived in dean crescent and was killed in a r.t.a at windy arbour.according to the ball the year was1963.
Come on davec i do believe i can see the year 1963.
How olds John Macdermott saw running last week looked 75.
john davies retired to australia a miilionare!a few years ago.
John Davies went to Australia 1984 then worked is way up through different companies before forming his own called Pecofacet in Perth.
David why is Frank Dallimore not on the photo as he always play in the halves unless he left Christmas 1962.
I should have gone to Specsavers Roy, I can see less than a RL touch judge !!!!
Year after me great team
jonnie mac can't be 75,although ex president of orrell rugby alf swift said he was the best tackler he played with.
Those guys look around 13/14 in that picture which would make them around 65 now.
myself and a few lads went on school bus to watch these lads play at st helens school.iremember it was a hard game,and one saints player put himself about in the game.it finished with us winning.when they where walking off we saw jimmy and johnny may stop turned round and stop the saints roughyed in his tracks BANG BANG SORTED!!
steve, barry fishwick told me that he used to do jonnie macs tackling for him.
Only thing Barry Fiswick tackled was his pie and peas after a match.