That's brilliant!

Did you mean Stan Owen?

Fred that's fantastic.




It would be a nice idea to use your footage, find some good shots of HP in her dayday with the ground full etc and then some of my demolition shots, and put them all together in a 'Life Story of Hilton Park'!!

Love the score board being built.

no as far as i know he never played RL but made a good living off it

Blimey Fred those early photos look like a couple of SL Grounds
circa 2009

any photos or even better footage of HP would be great, I will undertake to carry on with the project but will need help with photos etc may be even sound bites say of your more elderly relatives memories anything in fact,as ive said before i would love there to be a museum dedicated to Leigh RLFC and things like the above and bits of old games (I have some small footage of a game from Mather lane for instance) running on large screen and photographs and memorabilia on show.
I dont want to make any money out of it and will (if there is any money to be made

) give it to LISA.

In the meantime like i said please feel free to download it put it on your mobiles to remind others etc.. (not that my vodaphone 'brick' will accept it)

My fav is the old scoreboard if you can pause the vid at that point (unless of course the compression ratio required for youtube messes it up) look at the background the old buses etc.. its (well to me anyway) fantastic.

It's not Ray French is it?

no but your 'warm'



like i said as far asi know he wasn't a player

heres a clue there is a photo of a group shot (well two) he is on both but stood on a 'bench' in one

41secs in - group shot - 3rd from left on back row.......E.Waring esq ??

Ah yeah, I think you might be right.

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Was the black guy in one of the photos the fabled legend McDonald Bailey ?

WELL DONE WMFC the late great (well!!) Eddie Wareing, hemust have been on the Rugby League council at the tme -didnt he tour as tour manager around then?

and yes Gordon the guy was MacDonald Bailey

The other picture I love is the make shift score board on the railway end. The footbridge in the background reminds me of the one at the back of Lilford park at the side of the Wood End Pit. As kids we would stand on it as the steam trains went underneath.

that is my favourite not for the foreground but the background as my grandparents used to live just off to the left down Victoria st and i remember climbing up and down the footbridge as a kid every sat when we went.

For those of us who can't get on youtube at work to view it, what is it? a video of Hilton Park being built? and some early games there?

At the moment (as Fred says its a work in progress) it is a number of nostalgic stills of the ground being built as well as some other photos of I guess some of the people involved.

By the way, Great piano playing Fred



Also does anyone know the year the picture is from with Eddie Wareing on?

I am guessing 49/50 but if it was when the the ground was opened it would have to be 1947?

Thanks I'll have a look when I get home.

I've just lost my bet!



AJM said it was MacDonald Bailey and I said he was talking out of his backside!!

AJM talking out of his rear NO NEVER



As he is on both the pictures Im assuming that it was a posed shot on the grand opening in 1947.

If anyone has anymore of the stadium being built and crowd shots from the years and if Mismash could send me a few of her demolishing photos
I can continue with it.

Ahhh so you been Knowsley Road then





Excellent Video BTW......

Is there a prize?

yes my thanks