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1975-1976

Pictured are, left to right, back row: Chris Preston, Dave Swindell, Bill Innes, Mark Feeney. Front row: Doug Hanna, Neil Tunstall, Phil Ashley and Margaret Ashcroft.
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    24 October 1975

    New Brighton hill work for athletes

    Wallasey Athletic Club are still training five times a week. You may have seen them. On Monday evening we travel as a club from St. George's middle school, Leasowe Road, to a well known hill in New Br

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    31 October 1975

    Athletes off to St. Helens

    The long rest between track and cross-country season, broken only by two road relays, has eventually come to an end. The Wallasey Athletic Club men compete in the first

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    07 November 1975

    Rough ground for runners

    The weather was none too kind to Wallasey Athletic Club last Saturday for the first of the Liverpool & District Cross-Country Leagues at Sherdley Park, St. Helens.

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    21 November 1975

    Wallasey athletes ran well

    The second of the three Liverpool & District Cross-Country Leagues was held last Saturday, 15th inst., at Clarke Gardens, Allerton.

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    28 November 1975

    Athletic club is building up

    The was more going on on Saturday 15th than the reported league meeting. Four Wallasey Athletic Club members were competing at Warrington in an inter schools league meeting. They were Tommy Bond, who

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    05 December 1975

    Sick list hits the runners

    Sickness prevented Wallasey Athletic Club turning out a full colts team list Saturday for the final cross-country league meeting at West Derby.

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    12 December 1975

    Fast times by local runners

    Wallasey Athletic Club provided the fastest youth of the day in the H.S. Finney cross-country relays last Saturday at Clarkes Garden, Liverpool. The course, supposedly over a 1¼ mile lap, but

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    19 December 1975

    Athletes' festive racing

    Most Wallasey Athletic Club members have a rest from competition until the New Year when the championship part of the season comes into full swing.

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    26 December 1975

    Big field in 3-mile handicap

    The Wallasey Athletic Clubs' annual Christmas handicap race was held on Saturday over the usual three-mile course along Leasowe Road, embankment and shore.

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    09 January 1976

    Strong winds make life so hard for runners

    Last Saturday, the day after the devastating storm, which put an end to just about all local outdoor sports, Wallasey Athletic Club competed in the Cheshire Cross-Country Championships. These were run

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These Wallasey junior athletes will be representing Cheshire at the next county race meeting. Pictured from left to right Kevin McGee, Richard Hemmings and Paul Delap all aged 14.
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    30 January 1976

    Athletes shine at big gala

    The cream of the country gathered at the Meole Brace Secondary School in Shrewsbury last Saturday for the second annual colts and boys inter-county cross-country races.

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    06 February 1976

    Artic Day for local athletes

    Wallasey Athletic Club's Kevin McGee ran a superb race last Saturday, and was well backed up by Dave Southern and Rick Hemmings. It was the 83rd annual Northern Cross-Country Championship which was he

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    03 April 1976

    Wright to star in tourney

    The most outstanding result from last weekend's athletic programme as far as the Wallasey Athletic Club was concerned, was the performance of Chris Wright.

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    10 April 1976

    Colts lose chance of award

    Victoria Park, Warrington, was the venue for last Sunday's 3 x 1¼ mile cross-country relays. It was staged by Warrington Athletic Club and sponsored by the Burtonwood Brewery.

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    17 April 1976

    Inter-club rally opens season

    The track season opened for Wallasey Athletic Club with an inter-club visit held last Saturday at Woodchurch Community Centre. Athletes came from all over the north-west to make this a well-attended m

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    15 May 1976

    Heat slows athletic champs

    Wallasey Athletic Club made a dash down the M6 last Sunday, May 9th, to compete in the Coventry Godiva Harriers promotion held at Leamington Spa Stadium.

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    22 May 1976

    Weather dashes athletes' hopes

    Last weekend, wet and windy as it was, saw the Wallasey Athletic Club competing in the Merseyside championships at Kirkby and the male members competing in the Cheshire Men's Championship in Hartford,

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    10 July 1976

    Jones knocks up a personal best

    Last Saturday, Wallasey's senior athletes made the trip to Blackpool to compete in the first Northern Track League fixture of the season. However, the blistering heat and dry, sandy track produced uns

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    17 July 1976

    Southern reaps training benefits

    This weekend sees the opening of the 21st Olympiad at Montreal. Last Saturday the Olympic stars of the future competed in the Blackpool Young Athletes' League.

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