Was watching the game last night and the wife asked me why do Warrington get the name of Wires from?...Where i live the footie team get their name from the leather industry which the town was renowed for,,is it something like that?

Yeah, originally the team were made up of workers from the Wire industry that was once predominant in Warrington.

It's The Wire. THey were originally known as the Wirepullers due to the industry in the town.

yes you got it warrington had many factories associated with the wire pulling industry and the original nick name was "the wirepullers"

Ok,,Thanks for that Guys....And good luck for the rest of the season...

Does anyone know the very first line up and who started the squad ?
Is there a book on the history of Wire ?

My great grandfather was a wire-puller who had all the ligaments in his left hand stretched after getting it caught in one of the machines. In the days before H&S it was a dangerous business.

My Granddad and all of his brothers only ever worked at Rylands and he is probably spinning in his urn because it no longer exists. My dad spent all of his working life at Rylands and Firth.

Neither have ever seen a wolf.

Wire first started in 1879 with a joining together of Padgate Ru club and Zingari RU club 1st game was v Walton on the 18th October 1879 on rice lane Liverpool Capt was W G Edwards
Warrington 1st played their home games atSankey st Warrington opposite the town hall !

Was Stanley Gene in the crowd

Totally useless fact, the cables for the main suspension bridge across the Bospherus in Istanbul, linking Europe and Asia, was supplied from Warrington

My Grandad too Worked at Rylands (and Im pretty sure for all his life) a reserved profession during the war, which was good as two of his brothers were killed and the third discharged with shell shock.

My other Gran worked at Lockers where she did 'top secret work' during the war of which she only told us about a few years ago before her death.

After work her and a colleague prepared parts for "radio's", they got an extra two shillings and they werent allowed to tell anyone. she said they 'weaved' really thin wire and it needed a steady hand and good eyesight..

The debate about the demise of Industry in the town was done a few weeks ago.... but really what a colourful life our Grandparents must have led working in these factories....

I doubt I'll be boring my grandkids with tales of the day I got my works pc upgraded and it had a 100 gig processor..!

The club shop sold a book called 'A farewell to Wilderspool.'

That's the only history of the Wire I have ever seen.

very good.

www.warringtonwolves.org/history

www.warringtonwolves.org/history

I think the name Wires is outdated now.

We need to move with the times, how about nickname the team the Callcentres.

or 'Hand car washers'

"phone monkeys".

"dole scroungers"

etc.

It's a fair point!

or the "hanging round Market Gate on a Saturday Afternooners"

The Tescoers ?

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The late Peter O'Dea (RIP) had a good collection of stuff on his website: www.odeauk.fsnet.co.uk/ May not be the prettiest of formatting but the content is worth a read - I keep meaning to archive that site one of these days before fsnet realise it's an inactive account and delete it.

The late Peter O'Dea (RIP) had a good collection of stuff on his website: www.odeauk.fsnet.co.uk/ May not be the prettiest of formatting but the content is worth a read - I keep meaning to archive that site one of these days before fsnet realise it's an inactive account and delete it.

I particularly like this insight on one of his pages, I've no idea where he sourced the material from or how accurate it is ... but ...



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