by Robbie | Feb 27, 2018 | News
The life story of many an old Olympian was recounted in newspapers the length and breadth of Britain during 2012 when the Games came to London. One amongst them was Jack Potts, almost entirely ignored even by diligent athletics historians for more than 70 years but...
by Robbie | Feb 21, 2018 | News
“Everything was right about him, as if he was running on air” When I went to interview one of the sons of Walter Rangeley some 16 years or so ago in the course of research for a biography which I was preparing of the 1936 Olympic 4 x 400 metres gold-medallist, Bill...
by Robbie | Feb 16, 2018 | News
Read this article as PDF Following our announcement in the summer of 2017 that Northern Athletics needed to consider ways of funding itself, given the failure of England Athletics to commit to grant funding us beyond April 2019, we launched our booklet ‘Your support,...
by Robbie | Feb 15, 2018 | News
‘We were saddened to hear of the death of Barbara Sherman, the wife of Mike Sherman, one of our leading photo finish officials, who has passed away following a long illness. Mike would like to thank all those of you who have expressed their concern and offered...
by Robbie | Feb 5, 2018 | News
It is with regret that we must inform you of the death of Roy West who died on the 4th February 2018 Aged 84 years He was a popular and well-known athletics starter in the North East of England. He retired from the sport in 2012 but remained in contact with many...
