by Matthew Wood | Sep 11, 2018 | News
A weekly newspaper which was entitled “Bell’s Life in London and Sporting Chronicle” provides athletics historians with the most detailed accounts of the races run by professionals during the years of its publication, from 1822 to 1886. It was founded by Robert Bell,...
by Robbie | Jul 13, 2018 | News
If you are an aspiring 10-year-old athlete and your elder brother is already at 18 the AAA high-hurdles champion and an Olympic competitor, the temptation must surely be to try another event entirely. Having then become Northern junior discus title-holder eight years...
by Robbie | May 27, 2018 | News
Great Britain’s team at the 1948 Olympics was a mixture of veterans and novices. Many of them had lost their best years – and some others who could have been at the Games had even lost their lives – during World War II. There were 14 among the men who were making...
by Robbie | Feb 1, 2018 | News
Britain’s fastest middle-distance runner for almost 40 years from the 1880s onwards was a Lancastrian. Francis John Kynaston Cross, known familiarly as “Frank”, had been born in Eccles, which was then in Lancashire and is now part of Greater Manchester, on 14 November...
by Robbie | Mar 26, 2017 | News
Of the 76 teams entered, 69 times lined up for David Brown to start stage 1 promptly at 12:00 in bright sunshine. The first leg for the men is a long leg and it was Liverpool Harriers’ Dejene Gezimu who crossed the line first, in what turned out to be the...