The Anfield Bicycle Club, formed March 1879, is one of the oldest continuously active cycling clubs in the world. In 2013 the Heritage Lottery Fund awarded the ABC a Grant to conserve and share the collection, and to deposit the original records with Cheshire Archives and Local Studies.
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Our holdings include local sports such as Hound Trailing and Cumberland and Westmorland Wrestling, along with other mainstream sports.
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The collection includes archive images, propaganda posters, badges from garrison football teams and more besides, building a picture of football's role in wartime culture. You can use our online catalogue to search over 759,200 items that tell the story of modern war and conflict, collected by the museum since 1917.
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Head down memory lane to the Lakeland Motor Museum and feast your eyes on a unique collection of 30,000 exhibits including over 150 bicycles ranging from early examples to modern day classics.
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The rich history of Lancashire Cricket is exhibited in the club museum at Old Trafford. Manchester Cricket Club was formed at the beginning of the 1800's and moved to the present Old Trafford in 1857.
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The archive of Liverpool St Helens football club - the oldest open rugby union club in the world, has been deposited at Liverpool Record Office.
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Most people have heard something of the triumphs and tragedy behind the scenes and on the pitch at Old Trafford, but how much of the story do you really know? Blending historical exhibits with state-of-the-art interactive experiences the Museum lets you get even closer to the world of Manchester United than ever before.
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The key role of the Mountain Heritage Trust (MHT) is to ensure that Britain's unique & fascinating heritage of the people connected with its mountainous areas are conserved, documented, made accessible and communicated widely.
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Lively displays cover everything from sport to war and pies to festivals. Try our special exhibitions and events looking at unique aspects of local history from Rugby League to clog fighting.
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The National Football Museum exists to explain how and why football has become ‘the people’s game’, a key part of England’s heritage and way of life. It also aims to explain why England is the home of football, the birthplace of the world’s most popular sport.
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The Museum of Liverpool includes a permanent gallery of objects and archives associated with a range of sports.
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Material ranges from views of the largest towns to the smallest villages, as well as covering a variety of themes such as agriculture, industry, leisure, religion and sport. Sporting themes include archive images of The Old Show Ground, Scunthorpe.
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Salford Red Devils Foundation are the custodians of Salford Red Devils' heritage collection which it maintains, preserves, and displays
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The Everton Collection is the world's greatest club collection of football memorabilia. You can now search over 18,000 items in the Collection with 1,000s of images freely available to view.
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The National Archives manages a searchable national database of archives relating to sport.
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The Warrington Wolves Foundation maintains and preserves the archive of the Warrington Wolves Rugby League Club. The main collection includes programmes dating back to the early 1950s, match DVDs, and a photograph collection.
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This is a community based heritage project creating a cutting edge virtual museum, celebrating the rich culture of Castleford Tigers RLFC.
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The University Archives contain records of sports clubs and teams such as the University of Liverpool's Athletics Club (Athletic Union) and also the records of the British Universities Sports Association (BUSA). The Children's Book collections contain nearly 700 19th-20th century volumes on the history of physical education, gymnastics and other sports from Archery to Yachting. Many are illustrated with contemporary photographs.
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The Victoria Baths Archive represents the rich social and sporting history of Victoria Baths, the Baths and Wash-houses of Manchester, and the history of swimming and Turkish Baths in general. It contains pictures, documents, objects, audio, video and memories.
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Wakefield Museums’ Playmakers collection illustrates a proud local tradition of high tech, high quality sports manufacturing.
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The Widnes Rugby League Museum originally opened in 2007 and is home to a wonderful collection of memorabilia much of it donated by members of the public, and displays a fine history of Widnes RLFC.
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