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Athletics

  • A Summer Excursion with Burroughs and Wellcome

    A Summer Excursion with Burroughs and Wellcome

    Burroughs' Wellcome & Co employees were competing in a variety of activities: sprints over a 100 yards, distance running over one mile, a high jump competition and the exertions of the tug of war.
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  • Col Dame Kelly Holmes MBE

    Col Dame Kelly Holmes MBE

    “One of my earliest goals was to join the Army and win an Olympic gold medal; I am really pleased ...
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  • Elizabeth McColgan-Nuttall MBE (Liz McColgan)

    Elizabeth McColgan-Nuttall MBE (Liz McColgan)

    “I am pleased to be a Sporting Heritage Ambassador! History of sport evolves champions of the future, I am looking ...
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  • From Personal to Professional: Why Sporting Heritage in Schools Really Matters...

    From Personal to Professional: Why Sporting Heritage in Schools Really Matters...

    That’s me. c.1980, Southern Boys’ Cross-Country Championships at Parliament Hill Fields, spiritual home of the sport. Perhaps even then I was ...
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  • James Kibblewhite; Fastest Man in Purton

    James Kibblewhite; Fastest Man in Purton

    In a previous post I wrote upon the 200th anniversary of the founding of our Village Cricket club; however cricket ...
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  • Jenny Meadows

    Jenny Meadows

    “History is a great thing. It gives us understanding of what has gone on before us and allows us to ...
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  • Podcast - Memories of Aberystwyth University Athletics Club in the 1950s

    Podcast - Memories of Aberystwyth University Athletics Club in the 1950s

    In this podcast Russell Todd, Sporting Heritage CIC’s podcaster-in-residence, chats to his next door neighbour in Cardiff, Colin Morgan, about ...
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  • The Birchfield Harriers Collection

    The Birchfield Harriers Collection

    One of the first amazing collections we received information about through this project’s scoping activity was from Birchfield Harriers – ...
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  • Women in Civil Service Sport

    Women in Civil Service Sport

    As part of our project's scoping survey, we caught up with the Civil Service Sports Council (CSSC). Celebrating their centenary in 2021, the CSSC were very happy to take a look back through their archives for us, including those highlighting the early sporting success of women and disabled employees.
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