03 September 1955
With the completion last Wednesday of the Wallasey Athletic Club track and field championships the season can now be considered over for Wallasey athletes and now perhaps would be the time to consider
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17 September 1955
With the advent of the cross-country season members of Wallasey Athletic Club can now be seen training regularly over the fields between Leasowe and Bidston.
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24 September 1955
As the start of the cross-country season draws near it is pleasing to see quite a number of younger members are training, but the absence of senior members is still noticeable. This, I hope, will be r
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01 October 1955
With the advent of a new financial year in the lif of the Wallasey Athletic Club, the annual general meeting was once again held at the Roycroft Hall, Liscard.
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08 October 1955
Last Saturday saw the opening of the cross-country season with the annual Monstre meet held at Wirral Athletic Club's headquarters, Prenton.
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22 October 1955
On Saturday, November 5th, the Wallasey schools and Wallasey youths' cross-country championships are being promoted from the club headquarters in Leasowe Road.
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29 October 1955
Last Saturday, Wallasey Athletic Club, together with Liverpool Harriers were entertained by Liverpool Boundary to the first cross-country league fixture of the season.
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05 November 1955
Wallasey A.C. members visited the headquarters of Wirral A.C. at Prenton last Saturday for their second cross-country league fixture of the season against our hosts Wirral A.C. and Liverpool Pembroke
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12 November 1955
The A. G. Nicholson Challenge Trophy for the Wallasey schools' cross-country championship was won for the eighth time in nine years last Saturday by Moreton Secondary Modern School.
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12 November 1955
Gerry Williams receiving from the Mayor (Alderman J. C. Low) the A. G. Nicholson Challenge Trophy on behalf of Moreton S. M. School, who won it for the eighth time in nine years at the Wallasey school
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12 November 1955
Kenneth Ledward is the young man who could have gone into opera, or who could have gone into pantomime - but has gone sheep-farming in New Zealand.
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19 November 1955
Last Saturday saw the annual Waterloo Road Race being run over 6¾ miles of Waterloo roads. The inhabitants of Waterloo must have been surprised at seeing about two hundred runners in gaily colo
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26 November 1955
Last Saturday saw the last but one of the Liverpool & District Cross-Country league fixtures, this one being held at Wallasey Athletic Club headquarters in Leasowe Road.
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03 December 1955
Last Saturday saw our last Liverpool & District Cross-Country League fixture. This one was against Waterloo Harriers and Warrington Harriers at Crosby. The result must have surprised several of ou
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10 December 1955
The recent death of Mr. Albert George Nicholson will be keenly felt by Wallasey athletes past and present, as he has been closely associated with the sport for nearly sixty years.
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17 December 1955
The Wallasey Athletic Club Cross-Country Novice championship was run last Saturday in deplorable conditions.
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25 December 1955
The club-run held last Saturday meant that for the first time in several weeks the club had no fixtures or races. A most encouraging and unusual feature emerged from this run, this being that for the
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31 December 1955
The Christmas handicap last Saturday was somewhat marred by fog, but conditions did not interfere with any of the races. The first of the two races was for the boys, the course being along Leasowe Roa
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07 January 1956
In the Wallasey Athletic Club cross-country championships last Saturday, Ken Poyning showed more of the good form he is having this season, winning the boys' race.
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21 January 1956
Last Saturday the club had their postponed cyclo cross fixture against the Wallasey Cyclists. The race was won for the second year in succession by cyclist Johnny Fryer. He just beat Ron Barlow by a f
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28 January 1956
Last Saturday members of the Wallasey Athletic Club were hosts to Southport Harriers in a friendly cross-country fixture. It was run in deplorable weather conditions, the bitter east wind, accompanied
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04 February 1956
Last Saturday the Liverpool & District cross-country championships were promoted from the Wallasey club's headquarters in Leasowe Road.
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11 February 1956
The West Lancashire Cross-Country Championship races were held at Southport last Saturday, over a hard course.
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18 February 1956
A Wallasey A.C. team of cross-country runners visited the R.A.F. Camp at West Kirby last Saturday for a friendly cross-country fixture against an R.A.F. team stationed there.
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25 February 1956
Ron Barlow, the Cheshire and West Lancashire Champion and easily the best prospect Wallasey Club has ever had, fulfilled all the club's wildest hopes when he won the youth race at the Northern Countie
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03 March 1956
The National Cross-Country Championships are being held today on the racecourse at Warwick. In addition to both youth and junior teams entered by the Wallasey Athletic Club three seniors are competing
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03 March 1956
Ron Barlow, winner of the youth race in the Northern Counties Cross-Country Championship. Ron is a member of the Wallasey Athletic Club.
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10 March 1956
In the National Cross-Country Championships held last Saturday on the racecourse at Warwick, the youth race was won by J. Parker of Westbury Harriers.
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17 March 1956
Last Saturday a youth team went to Winton near Eccles, to race in the Electrical Industries Cross-Country Championships and the Northern Counties Women's Cross-Country Championships.
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24 March 1956
This year sees the Wallasey Athletic Club in its sixtieth year, and as part of the Jubilee celebrations, a competition known as a 'Parluuf' is being staged at our Headquarters in Leasowe Road.
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14 April 1956
Members and friends of Wallasey Athletic Club at the dinner held recently to celebrate the Club's jubilee year. The dinner, held at the Sandrock Hotel, was attended by the Mayor and Mayoress (Alderman
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28 April 1956
Last Saturday two of W.A.C.'s foremost athletes competed for Cheshire, in the first athletic track meeting to be held this year. This was a three cornered meeting between Derbyshire, the Christie Club
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05 May 1956
The Cheshire County Athletic championships will take place this year at Lingham Park, Moreton, were work on laying the A.A.A. running track has been going on through the winter.
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12 May 1956
Last Saturday at Longview Lane, Huyton, 58 athletes started out on the 20-mile Liverpool Pembroke road race.
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19 May 1956
On Wednesday, May 23, Wallasey and Moreton Athletic Clubs are invited on this one evening only to do their respective training on the new Wallasey Corporation track at Lingham Park, Moreton.
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26 May 1956
Wallasey Athletic Club are holding their first inter-club meeting this season at Southport on Monday.
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02 June 1956
The running track and sports arena at Lingham Park, Moreton, which will be opened today by the Mayor (Alderman B. Brooker) followed by the annual Cheshire Athletic Championships.
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02 June 1956
Lingham Park, Moreton, will be the scene of Merseyside's main sporting attraction today.
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09 June 1956
More than two thousand people risked the unsettled weather on Saturday to see the official opening of Moreton's new running track and athletic arena at Lingham Park which was followed by the staging o
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16 June 1956
A strong team of Wallasey athletes made their way to Helsby B.l.C.C. Sports last Saturday. Out of 47 starters in the 100 yds. Wallasey A.C. had two athletes in the last 6. E. Bennett, and Mr. A. Price
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23 June 1956
Next Wednesday Wallasey and Wirral Athletes will meet in a friendly contest at Leasowe Rd. at 7-15 p.m.
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30 June 1956
Wallasey Athletic Club are holding their annual club championships next Monday and Wednesday.
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07 July 1956
Some of the competitors taking part in the Wallasey Athletic Club championships.
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07 July 1956
Wallasey Athletic Club defeated Wirral by 61 points to 39 in a friendly contest last Wednesday week (27th June) at Leasowe Road.
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14 July 1956
The Wallasey Gala next Wednesday in Central Park, will field some of the North of England's champion track and field athletes including K. Willmshurst, Port Sunlight A.C., who was captain of the Briti
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21 July 1956
In a continuous drizzle and over a very undulated course, John Lynch last Saturday proved himself to be one of Cheshire's leading marathon runners.
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28 July 1956
At the three-cornered meeting between Waterloo, Southport and Wallasey last Monday at Waterloo, Southport and Waterloo were no match against a strong Wallasey team.
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11 August 1956
Today's Wallasey's marathon runners, F. K. Ledward, R. Scammell and J. Lynch are due to run in the Liverpool marathon. The race starts at 2-15 p.m. from St. George's Hall and finishes at Liverpool's F
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18 August 1956
In the Liverpool City marathon, Frank Ledward came close to realising an ambition.
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25 August 1956
Owing to inclement weather the Lever Trophy scheduled for last Saturday afternoon was postponed until the following Monday evening.
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