Old Ledbury - Royal British Legion Sports Teams

Royal British Legion Sports Teams

Royal British Legion Sports Teams


Cribbage Team

Date Unknown

[Crib Team]

Crib Trophy League Winners and Ken Long Winners
Back Row - Sid BRACE, Fred BALDWIN, Douglas NICHOLAS - Front Row - Bob McTEAR, Arthur BAKER, Harry PEDLINGHAM, Roy 'Sloop' BAKER





Darts Team

1960

[DartsTeam]

Back Row - unknown, unknown, unknown, unknown, George TRIGG
Front Row - Fred WATKINS, Jack TAYLOR, unknown, unknown, unknown, unknown



1966

April 1966 - British Legion, Darts Team - Champions Of All Britain - Winners of the Hamburg Cup - Full write up soon.

[DartsTeam]

Back Row - George TRIGG, John CHESTER, Jack GRIFFITHS, Brian JONES, Jack TAYLOR Front Row - Dennis CHESHIRE, Dave CAFFULL



Date Unknown

The Ledbury team pictured here won the General Sir Oliver Leese Cup for darts at the West Midlands area British Legion indoor sports final at the Austin British legion Club, Northfield, Birmingham on Saturday.

[DartsTeam]

The cup was presented to GRIFFITHS by Colonel D A DAVISON

Back row - George TRIGG, Fred WATKINS, Brian JONES, George BALDWIN, Front Row - Jack TAYLOR, Jack GRIFFITHS ( Capt ), John LEDBURY



1977

[Darts Brian Jones]



Brian JONES, of Ledbury British Legion, won the individual darts championship in the Legion's area sports finals in Birmingham on Saturday and will now represent the West Midland Area in london next month at the British Legion Darts Championship of Great Britain.

Ledbury RBL were runners-up in the area whist final.

[Darts Brian Jones Area Darts Champion]

[Darts Brian Jones Area Darts Champion]



Date Unknown

[Darts Team]

Pete TRIGG, Brian JONES, Bob PULLEN, Pip GLADWIN

[Darts Team]

Back Row - Pip GLADWIN, Brian JONES, Front Row - Keith FARLEY, Bob PULLEN

[Darts Team]

Phil GLADWIN, Brian JONES

[Darts Team]

Mr SHAKESHEFF, Brian JONES, Joey EVANS




Skittles Team

1950s

[Skittles Team]

Back Row - Mr LEWIS, unknown, Johnny CHESTER, Roy BURTON, Sam SHAKESHEFF, ...BARNES, Joey JONES, Brian JONES, ...TAYLOR, unknown, unknown
Front Row - Monny TRIGG, Stan LEWIS, Jeff CARTER, Jackie GRIFFITHS, Wally JUCKES, Jack TAYLOR, Bill SHAKESHEFF, unknown

[Skittles Team]

Back Row - Sam SHAKESHEFF, Gordon SMITH, John CHESTER, Roy BURTON, John JONES, Les NELSON, Mr FLETCHER, Jim MARSH
Front Row - Trevor EASTABROOK, Bill SHAKESHEFF, Larry POWELL, Brian JONES, Stan LEWIS

[Skittles Team]

W+2 skittle team.

Back row l-r Dave BERRY, Colin WILKINS, Paul WILLIAMS, Chris WILLIAMS Tony TOMKINS, Eric WILLIAMS
Front row l-r Ken WILLIAMS, Terry WILLIAMS, Colin WILLIAMS, Martin VERNALL. Trophy being presented to the league was The Gordon Williams Memorial Cup.



Date Unknown

[Skittles Team]

Royal British Legion KO Cup - Hubert TAYLOR, Ted PARRY, Kenny LANE, Terry WILLIAMS

[Skittles Team]

Royal British Legion KO Cup - Michael JONES, Eric WILLIAMS, Gordon LEDBURY, Terry WILLIAMS, Paul WILLIAMS, Rodney HYDE

[Skittles Team]

British Legion K O Cup- Fred BALDWIN, Ted PARRY, Kenny LANE, Terry WILLIAMS, Hubert TAYLOR




Sources
Photographs are credited to the owners
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Cuttings from Ledbury Reporter newspapers

Ledbury Reporter

[Ledbury Reporter] The Reporter now has Archive photographs for the years 2005 - 2009 which you can view and order. Select a year then make sure Ledbury is the keyword entered before pressing GO. I have spent many an hour in the Ledbury Library looking through the old Reporters which are on microfiche. Support this great local paper.