Golf

 

Opening of new clubhouse 1940.

 

Formed in the first half of 1910 the first Golf links in Bacup were at Cowtoot Farm. Officially opened on July 2nd 1910 by the Mayor Alderman J. H. Maden. Who was also president of the club. The ceremony took place on a day of heavy rainfall. The Mayor officially opened the course with a suitably inscribed driver he had been presented with earlier on in the proceedings. A friendly match between the Mayor and the Captain of the club Mr Joseph Entwistle ensued.

In 1916 the club moved to Bankside Lane, a cottage being used as a clubhouse for about seven years. In May, 1923, New Barn Farm, Bacup, was erected to serve as a club house. This was 30 yards long and two storeys high.

 

On January 19, 1939 tragedy hit in the shape if a fierce fire which completely burned out the clubhouse and reduced it to a charred shell. The Steward and Stewardess Mr and Mrs. G. W. Taylor, together with their ten year old son had a exciting escape. The cause of the fire was unknown.

 

The Charred Remains

of the Clubhouse.

 

A new clubhouse was opened in April 1940 by Alderman George Baron. Membership of the club at that time stood at 170 men and women including house members. A ladies section of the club being set up in 1923.

 

 

In 1928 Bacup Golfers won the East Lancashire Handicap Trophy for the first time.

Pictured above are:

W Y Hargreaves

 H Proudfoot ( Secretary)

H Hargreaves

H Hoyle

H Cropper ( Captain)

J.H Brearley

 

 

 

 

Football

The Rossendale Valley Football Club held a competition that lasted 21 years and was known as the Rossendale Charity Cup. Irwell Springs F.C the forerunners of the present Bacup Borough won this trophy four times in its first five years.

 

Irwell Springs FC

Writing on back of photograph:

Copy from old photograph app 1906.

Taken in front of Weir Hotel - Ground behind hotel.

Back Row: J Savoy ( ref ) , J Coupe ( rh) , John R ??? ( ch) ,???? ,

 J Wilson ( rb) , John Digby ( goal ) , C Crabtree ( lb )

J Meeks ( rh ), A Heys ( trainer ).

Front Row: W Duckley ( rw) , John A Howorth ( r inside) , John Mitchell ( centre ) ,

C F Digby ( l inside ) , Tom Clarke ( l wing).

 

 

    Bacup Central Football AFC.

Names on back of photograph:

Jack Knowles, Johnny Lee, Isherwood, Harold Larter. Billy Lord, Charlie Green*, Albert Hall, Ralph Gaukrodger, John Ashworth,*---? Fred Roberts, Harry Stott.

George Clegg, Dick Roberts, Nuttall, Clifford Bridge,

Alan Heyworth, Wilfred Brown, Harold Lord, Fred Hoyle.

 

Bacup FC

1910-1911.

Smith, Wilson, Cross, Strachan, Stamford, Gawthorne.

Ogden, Ashcroft, Cook, Briercliffe, Swarbrick.

 

Temperleys

Football Team.

 

Britannia United F.C  Championship Winners 1932-1933

Names on back of photograph.

Back Row: J Stead, ?,?, C Potts, J Watson, A Harwood, M Darcy.

Middle Row: B See ( Chairman), H Greenwood, A Evans,  ( Pres ) Harrison, A Mitchell, J Wilkinson, J Martin, W Booth, M Greenwood (trainer)

Front Row: G Evans, W Stead, H Smith, J Catlow,

T Waterhouse, J Hodgkinson, B Wilkinson.

 

St Saviours Winners  School Boy

League 1921.

 

 

Bacup Police

Football Team 1947.

 

 

Blackwood FC

1931-1932.

Names on back of photograph. ( *some names maybe incorrect due to faded writing )

 

Back Row: A Southern, L Allen, Al Smith, W Maden, H Clannard*, J Holt.

Middle Row: Bob Andrew (my granddad) ,Bob Howorth, W Kierns, E Hartley, J Kay, H Howorth, J Piena*, ---?----?,

 J Weaver*, ---?, W Whitehead, J Lord, F Milelne*, A Law.

 

 

 

                   A Few Notable Dates In Bacup Sports

1893 - Maden Swimming Baths Bacup being built
1895 - Harry Townsend Champion Boy walker of Bacup born
1899 - Bacup C.C Lancashire League Champions
1903 - Bacup Golf Club opened
1906 - David Billington of Bacup, winner of the Mile Amateur Swimming Championship of the World. Record holder in other distances.
1906 - Maggie Scott, of Bacup Winner of 100 yards Ladies National Swimming Championship. Record holder.
1913 - Bacup Amateur Football League founded
1922 - Bacup C.C and Rawtenstall C.C tied for Lancashire League Championship, both teams were fined
for not playing the final match of the season to a result.
1923 - Bacup C.C Worsley Cup winners
1923 - Bacup C.C Lancashire League Champions
1924 - Bacup C.C Lancashire League Champions
1927 - Bacup C.C Worsley Cup winners
1930 - Bacup C.C Lancashire League Champions and Worsley Cup winners
1949 - Everton Weekes, Bacup C.C professional made highest score in Lancashire League 195 not out at Enfield
1951 - Everton Weekes, hit the highest Lancashire League aggregate, 1,518 runs
1956 - Bacup C.C Worsley Cup winners

 

 

 

 

 

Cricket

Stacksteads Cricket Club was formed at a public meeting held at Stacksteads Workmen's Club on July 29th 1902 there was a attendance of between 250 and 300 people present. Shortly after the meeting negotiations were completed for a plot of land near Waterbarn Baptist Chapel for use as a Cricket Field and the first annual general meeting of the club took place on February 10th 1903. On April 20th 1904 the club finally managed to persuade magistrates to grant them a licence so they could sell intoxicants at their home matches. The club had quite a successful existence with first class players which even included two paid professionals who went by the names of  Woods and Getrix  and were paid about 30s per week. Other players included names such as Billy Walkden, Herbert Shepherd, Harry Maudlsey,

Jos Brookes and John Ed Maden.

 

A friendly match played at the Bacup ground between Bacup and Stacksteads first eleven usually kicked off the season. Other teams that Stacksteads played against were Castleton Moor, Newhey, Greenbooth, Spotland, Moston, Westhulme, Fieldhouse to name but a few. Stacksteads second eleven pictured below won the Lancashire Council league in 1912. The club was disbanded in 1914, that same year Waterbarn Recreative Association was formed and Britain found herself caught up in the Great War.

 

 

Stacksteads Cricket Team.

 

Disbanded in 1914 picture taken about 1911-1912

Left-right Back Row. Joe Heyworth, Harry Smith, James Taylor, Bob Hiley, G Dearden, Hardman Savory.

Left-right Front Row. W Ashworth ( known as "Bill o' t' Dog") Richard Tattersall, ( "Dick Tatt") Walter Maden, Roger Rawlinson, and Ernie Hollowood.

 

 

 

Waterbarn Cricket Team.

 

 

Bacup C.C. 1885.

 

Bacup C.C. 1910.

 

Names shown on photograph.

Prince, Maden, Taylor, Kermode, Pope, Lord, Clough,

R Roberts (Capt), Wood, Midgeley, Dickinson.

 

 

Bacup C.C 1930.

 

 

Names shown in photograph.

R Ratcliffe ,F Hartley, A J Richardson..Pro, W Lord, L Hunt, T Hurney,

C Roberts, J Midgeley, F Jackson, T Holt, R Roberts.

 

Bacup ST Mary's 1932.

Writing on Back Of Photograph.

Left-Right. Back Row ( Non Players ) G Leonard, A Pattison, E Usher (sen),

J Loveder , J Myerscough, H Loveder, J Walsh, W Leonard, J Eastham.

Players Left-Right. Bert Brown, T Hanley, T Connolly, E Usher (Jnr), J Lee, J Stott, Reg Martin, Joe Usher.

Front Row. H Hopkinson, Joe Lee, J Carty, Jack Cooke, Fr Slevin, Tom Walsh, Jim Walsh.

 

Irwell Terrace C.C. Champions Bacup & District S.S. League Div 11 1929.