THEN & NOW

 The year was 1995, the venue Burnley, the event was the Provincial Cricket Trophy match and the victors LONGRIDGE CIRCLE.

 From left, Bob Barron (Captain) Sub for Jim Duckworth Andy Farmer, Charles Maher, Steve Hardacre, Richard Maher and Joe Wilkins.

  The same year Blackburn Rovers won the Premiership, Everton won the FA Cup, boxer Frank Bruno won the WBC heavyweight championship and 1% of UK population (600, 000 people) had internet access.

Move forward 23 years and Manchester City won the Premiership, Chelsea the FA Cup, Europe thrashed USA to win the Ryder Cup, 90% of Uk population (59,400,000 people) have internet access
and Longridge were reunited with the Provincial Cricket Trophy!


Spot the difference. From left, Bob Barron (captain) Jim Duckworth, Charles Maher, Steve Hardacre, Richard Maher and Joe Wilkins.

I'll leave you to decide if father time has been kind or otherwise to our reunited team but thanks go to Bernard Swarbrick for returning the Trophy and making six old fellas very happy to still be holders of the Province 10 Cricket Trophy.