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From the Rex to Waterworld

The Towns Swimming Pool Photographs relating to this article, including those in this extract, may be found in Gallery 2.08 The first swimming pool in Prudhoe was created in the 1960’s when the Rex Cinema on the Front Street was converted, though as long ago as 1911 a...

It Began Beside the Suey

Prudhoe Golf Club Photographs relating to this article, including those in this extract, may be found in Gallery 2.08 Prudhoe Golf Club was started in 1930 as a nine hole course and covered an area of land from what is now Homedale, down through Oaklands, Paddock Wood...

On the Green

Bowls in Prudhoe Photographs relating to this article, including those in this extract, may be found in Gallery 2.04 The Prudhoe Bowls Club was founded in 1926. Then the clubhouse and pitch were in Oakfield Park (now the Co-op car park). The green was laid by a Mr R...

The Men in Whites

Some Sports Personalities Photographs relating to this article, including those in this extract, may be found in Gallery 2.03 A survey map of 1897 shows a cricket ground at Low Prudhoe approximately 350 yards east of the present footbridge over the railway line. This...

Men of Sporting Talent

Some Sports Personalities Photographs relating to this article, including those in this extract, may be found in Gallery 2.02 Prudhoe and District has had its share of sporting personalities mainly in football and the following are notes on just a few of them. Jack...

A Proud Sporting Tradition

Footballers of Grit & Skill   Photographs relating to this article, including those in this extract, may be found in Gallery 2.02 Prudhoe, over the last one hundred years or so, has produced some great teams and individual players. As a mining village years ago,...