Tolson Museum Themes
TITLE |
WRITTEN & IMAGES CONTENT |
SUPPORTING ARTEFACTS |
Rugby Kicks Off |
first game; early clubs; Holliday Cup; birth and early development of Huddersfield club; Yorkshire Cup win |
Hurrah for the Claret and Gold; membership/fixture cards; Baines Cards (at Tolson); 1894 Nortonthorpe medal and cap (at Tolson) |
Birth of the Northern Union |
George Boak story/Reverend Frank Marshall; George Hotel meeting |
Commemorative centenary plates, stamps, service, tie, banquet menu; 1908 programme; |
Team of all Talents |
Rorke's Drift Test Match; Rosenfeld 80 tries; Wagstaff biog; |
Edgar Wrigley caps (displayed on Perspex stands); wages book; Wagstaff plates; |
World War I |
amateur game before and after; Fred Longstaff; Grove Park; to play or to volunteer; Douglas Clark biog |
Douglas Clark diary and bust; Fred Longstaff medals; Albert Rosenfeld sprint cup |
Between the Wars |
first Wembley appearances |
testimonial booklets; cartoons |
Post-war highlights |
Championship and Challenge Cup wins |
testimonial booklets; Fartown Yearbooks; great matches; Johnny Hunter Huddersfield shirt; |
Years of Decline |
Keith Burhouse; Barracudas; Sheffield merger; administration |
testimonial booklets; Fartown Yearbooks |
Super League |
Ken Davy; modern stars |
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Amateur Clubs |
BARLA; Pennine League; current clubs |
Graham Buckley kit; Underbank plates; Slaithwaite images; shields; Holliday Cup programmes; |
Women in Rugby League |
Nancy Beaumont, Supporters Club; local players |
Booklets |
Then and Now |
Kit; stadia (Big G); style/rules of play |
boots; balls; shin pads (Dai Jenkins); shoulder pads (Dai Jenkins); shirts (Johnny Hunter Other Nationalities shirt); spectators' clothing; kit (on coat hangars and padded, not mannequins) |