Tysul Bevan was well on his way to setting a Club record for drop goals in a season when the……
Timeline Stories
AT LAST THE CAP FITS
Finally the die-hard blazers of the County set-up recognised that so-called junior clubs could have highly talented players. Of most……
FIRST ANNUAL DINNER CUM DISASTER
The first Annual Dinner was held with WC Ramsey, President of the RFU as Guest of Honour. It was a formal……
RUGBY JOINS WITH ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL
In pre-NHS days nurses would routinely lodge in Nurses Homes whilst training and working. Without NHS support these Homes needed……
THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR MISMANAGEMENT
Many years before replacements were thought about, 1970 actually, the then “B XV” (fourth team in the hierarchy) travelled to……
LEST WE FORGET
Lieutenant, Henry David Jennison, M C, 13th/18thRoyal Hussars, Royal Armoured Corp was a member of both Macclesfield Rugby and Cricket……
Wartime rugby invasion of football ground
True to the town’s love of sport in all guises the Football club hosted a rugby match in which several……
It’s all just football!
On the 1st May 1940 rugby was played at the Moss Rose (home of Macclesfield Town FC) for the first……
The Story of the Cigarette Card
In 1936 the Ardath Tobacco Company (later to be subsumed to Imperial Tobacco) ran a series of “cigarette cards” (for……
If that’s me cup I’ve had it!
The Cheshire Cup kicked off early with the Blues drawn away at neighbours Sandbach in a game that was played……
