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Johnson, Lown and Green Top 10 as Harriers take NECCCA Team Prize, Football Gazette (South Shields) – Saturday 10 February 1934

A medal belonging to W Lown (William Lawson Lown) was found in a gutter in Nottingham in 1993 and the club was contacted in 2023 to see if any knowledge of who W Lown was.  Photo of the medal can be seen below. William Lawson Lown, born on 11th December 1916 in South Shields, lived

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North Eastern Cross Country, Football Gazette (South Shields) – Saturday 11 February 1922

BL_0004085_19220211_069_0004.pdf In the Chester-le-Street Chronicle and District Advertiser – Friday 10 February 1922 it also recognises the clubs achievement at the NECCCA event.  Covered in the Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette – Monday 06 February 1922 and the Athletic News – Monday 13 February 1922 Story also covered in the Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette – Monday 06 February 1922  

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Workforce Day out

Thomas Mountford can be seen 4th from left with the dickie bow and cigar in his hand. The Great Jesse Boot of Boots the Chemist is the other chap in a light coloured suit. This group of managers from Boots including Thomas were organising an away day for the companies workforce. The Boots the Chemist

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Junior Harriers Win, Northern Cross Country, Leeds Mercury – Saturday 22 February 1902

Butterfield finished 1st, Blenkhorn 5th, Holborn 9th and Armstrong 10th BL_0000747_19020222_373_0021.pdf Also mentioned in Penny Illustrated Paper – Saturday 22 February 1902 and detailed in St. Helens Newspaper & Advertiser – Tuesday 18 February 1902, Leeds Mercury – Wednesday 19 February 1902, North Bucks Times and County Observer – Saturday 22 February 1902, North Bucks Times and County Observer – Saturday 22 February 1902 Story briefly covered in

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Harriers Hold 20 mile race, Thomson’s Weekly News – Saturday 26 December 1908

BL_0001780_19081226_206_0009.pdf Second article include results from Tees-side Weekly Herald – Saturday 26 December 1908, Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser – Saturday 26 December 1908. Also briefly mentioned in the Sheffield Evening Telegraph – Monday 21 December 1908 Further article found in the North Star (Darlington) – Monday 21 December 1908

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Celtic FC Sports, Sevenoaks Chronicle and Kentish Advertiser – Friday 18 August 1905

BL_0001067_19050818_072_0003.pdf Also covered in the Teignmouth Post and Gazette – Friday 18 August 1905, Cannock Chase Courier – Saturday 19 August 1905, Diss Express – Friday 18 August 1905, Tyrone Courier – Thursday 17 August 1905, Beverley and East Riding Recorder – Saturday 19 August 1905 and Flintshire Observer – Thursday 17 August 1905, Christchurch Times – Saturday 19 August 1905, Wimbledon News – Saturday 19 August 1905, Exmouth Journal – Saturday 19 August 1905, Dromore Weekly Times and

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Butterfield and Hodgson Win N.E Cross Country events, Sevenoaks Chronicle and Kentish Advertiser – Friday 14 April 1905

BL_0001067_19050414_165_0007.pdf Copy of this can be found in East & South Devon Advertiser. – Saturday 15 April 1905, Wimbledon News – Saturday 15 April 1905, Ashbourne News Telegraph – Friday 14 April 1905 , Wigton Advertiser – Saturday 15 April 1905, Tewkesbury Register – Saturday 15 April 1905 and Portadown News – Saturday 15 April 1905, Lisburn Standard – Saturday 15 April 1905, English Lakes Visitor – Saturday 15 April 1905

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Northern Cross Country, Runcorn Examiner – Friday 13 February 1903

BL_0002609_19030213_102_0005 (1).pdf Copy of this also captured in Warrington Examiner – Saturday 14 February 1903 and Lancaster Standard and County Advertiser – Friday 13 February 1903 and a detailed review found in the Manchester Evening News – Saturday 14 February 1903 (below) and in the Manchester Evening News – Saturday 21 February 1903 List of Teams and runners are captured in the Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer – Wednesday 11

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Olympic Team Leave for Tokyo

Olympic Team leave for Summer Olympics in Tokyo, UK, 28th September 1964; they are John Boulter, John Sherwood, Alan Simpson, Adrian Metcalfe, John Whetton, Alf Meakin, Ron Hill, Martyn Lucking, Peter Warden, Joy Grieveson, Hodgson, Alix Jamieson, Dorothy Hyman. (Photo by Les Lee/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Bill (William) Wylie

Bill Wylie was born William Cosgrove Wylie in Coatbridge, Scotland, on 27 February 1910, and died in Darlington in 1978. He came to the fore in Scottish athletics in 1935 when he entered the Scottish national cross-country championship and convincingly won the title, defeating the holder Jim Flockhart by 23 seconds. That saw him selected

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Brass Monkey

Popular half marathon on the racing calendar, with it’s flat and fast course making this an attractive proposition.  Graham Bell seen here in action

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Lewis Moses

Lewis Moses started his running career at Darlington Harriers as a 12 year old after winning the Darlington Schools Cross Country, making a brief appearance at QRC before moving to Aycliffe Running Club to join Coach Paul Harker where he was coached by former runner and five time club champion Paul Harker before moving back

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Harriers Host North-Eastern AA cross country championships at Branksome School

19th December 2003 report Harriers hosted the North-Eastern AA cross country championships at Branksome School on Saturday. With some of the region’s top athletes taking part there was some excellent racing and close finishers. The senior women’s team of Susie Rutherford, Bernadette Taylor and Alison Raw took pride of place by putting in an outstanding

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LINDSAY DUNN 1943-2020

Lindsay’s athletic career began with Darlington Harriers but he soon moved to Gateshead and became a county championship standard athlete himself.  Whilst living in Leeds he started his coaching career, taking Brendan Foster (who was at Carnegie College at the time) to a bronze medal in the 1970 Commonwealth Games 1500. As a competitor Lindsay

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5 Trophies at the NYSD XC Relays

The squad that had great success at the NYSD Cross Country Relays with the 5 trophies that they won.  Wally Lawson stands at the left of the photo holding the Aggregate trophy. Back row left to right: Ashley Robinson, Danny Read, Chris Teasdale, Rachel Chalmers, Simon Rutherford, Suzie Rutherford, Darren Bradley, Georgina Rutherford, Gemma Bramley, Unknown,

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A Winning XC NYSD season

The Junior cross country squad with the trophies that they’d amassed at the end of NYSD Cross Country League. Back row left to right: Ashley Robinson, Caroline Davies, Daniel Orton, Chris Teasdale, Darren Bradley, David Brown, Suzie Rutherford, Bernadette Taylor, Ruth Brown. Front row: Simon Rutherford, Kimberley Read, Alister McCulloch, Laura Davies, Georgina Rutherford, Claire Blacklee,

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U13 Girls keep on winning

Girls just carry on winning!  The 1994 under 13 girls cross country team, who won every team event at that year’s NYSD Cross Country series.  The Northern Echo story about the girls can be seen here 5 of the 6 Under 13 ‘Girls just carry on winning’ team of 1994.  They are holding trophies given

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Prizes for Harriers

Results from Elswick Road Races and several Harriers competed in the York half marathon in preparation for the London Marathon Bernadette Taylor (now Caygill) winning Individual Silver and Team Gold at European Catholic Schools Cross Country Championships, after gaining automatic selection to the GB team

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Brian Lee

Another Harrier legend of the 1980’s was Brian Lee.  Lee was a strong distance runner at the club who put in some fantastic performances from 1982-85 mainly but not exclusively in the longer events. Here’s Brian in action at the Cleveland Marathon, Middlesbrough on 11th October 1982.  Brian finished 8th in 2hrs 31:16 another impressive

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NYSD XC Photos

Acklam Ben Lambert leads the charge, Paul Cook, Colin Taylor, Drew Inglis, Diane Jones and Simon Rogers Croft Jamie and Ben                                     Ellie Phillips Thirsk Relay Ellie, Stella and Katie Stella Jones and Lucy-erin Hunter amongst the leaders

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National Cross Country

Linda Noble Megan Noble, Linda’s other daughter Megan is another future star at the club Stella Jones, Diane’s daughter is another talented junior at the club Sue Phillips, consistent and exceptional Katie Noble, Linda Noble’s daughter is already achieving some excellent results especially off road Joe O’Hara, another excellent junior coming through the ranks at

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Mayor Support

Mayoral Support, Darlington Mayor Bill Stenson in March 1982 with 17 year old Harriers, left to right, Lorraine Souter, Diane Robinson, Lesley Walker and Susan Raine

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New Badge Introduced

Club Development Officer Paul Cook introduced a new club badge as well as outsourcing the manufacturing of the vest and a whole range of wear and accessories to mysportswear, based in Darlington.  This removed the need to manage the supply and demand of kit but allowed our athletes to have a more modern looking kit

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Bye to the D

Club Development officer Paul Cook proposed a kit change which would say goodbye to the giant ‘D’ on the vest but would have the full name of the club across the front of the vest to increase awareness of the clubs Brand.  The compromise to this was to have the D at a slightly larger

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Kit Change

Sometime during the 1970’s, we suspect 1977 the traditional Blue and White Hoops changed as it was felt after nearly 80 years the hoops were more reflective of a rugby shirt than a running shirt and was replaced by two vertical blue lines on a plain white vest and a large ‘D’ was added. These

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Training at the Harriers

Harriers met Mondays to Thursday, Saturday morning and Sunday afternoon in the summer at Longfield Road Stadium. In the winter meetings were held in the Sports Hall, Archer Street on Mondays and Longfield Road Stadium on Thursdays. Leader Mr H Goodwin.

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Ian Barnes

What can be said about Ian Barnes that hasn’t been written before. Ian who didn’t start running until his 40’s and still running into his 80’s was crowned European Indoor 1500m champion as V60, competed in World Championships, represented England broke national records (2 of which he still holds of time of writing November 2017)

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G.W Grieves

G.W Grieves, displaying his collection of trophies from 1948 to 1949. Hidden in the case at the back of the photo was a case of cutlery, another prize received whilst at the club.

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Darlington Schools Relay

Darlington schools relay winning team 1935 with medal presented by the wife of former Olympian George Butterfield, Mrs G Butterfield. Second left is John Kenneth Harker, the father of one of our future club legends, Paul Harker who you can see more of in our 1970-1980 sections.

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Men of Mark – Charles Mountford

Feature article on Charles. Sadly Charles died in 1931 after a tragic accident and his funeral was attended by 100’s of people from Darlington and from the local sporting world. His coffin was carried by representatives from his sporting connections including The Harriers. Charles was a Tailor like his father and Grandfather before him and

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George Butterfield

George Butterfield, the pub landlord who won a bag full of trophies and medals on the track, raced a dog, and now lies in a war grave in Belgium. The British went into the first day of the 1908 Olympics in confident mood.  They had stepped in to save the 4th Olympiad in 1906 when

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Horace Armstrong

Horace Armstrong, vice captain at the time of George Butterfield was the first winner of this trophy Horace was a celebrated champion, winning this one mile flat race in a reported 4mins 17 seconds. That would have been more or less world record pace at the time, although there is an assumption that it wasn’t

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Joy For Grieveson

Joy Grieveson in action Joy who had a personal 400m best of 53.12 which she achieved in 1963. Joy also won a silver medal at the European Championships in 1962 as well as competing in Commonwealth and Olympic Games for Great Britain. We have also produced numerous club representatives at International, National, Regional, County, Town,

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Butterfield Dies in Action

Hole in the Wall Darlington public house in Darlington’s market square remembers club legend George Butterfield. After running the International Cross Country Championship in 1906, George Butterfield won the Northern title at 440 yard and 1 mile that summer. He was the winner of the AAA mile title for three successive years (1904-06) with his

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