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 | Dec 31, 2017 | News
Amateur athletics rapidly developed in the second half of the 19th Century in the North of England as factory-workers and the emerging middle classes sought respite on their Saturday afternoons off from their jobs in the throes of the Industrial Revolution....
by Robbie | Jan 25, 2015 | News
Northern Athletics Cross Country Championships returned to Pontefract after spending two years in Knowsley, favourably weather provided perfect conditions for cross country. Stockport Harriers profile as one of the top endurance clubs in the North has grown...
