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Darlington Mowden Park RFC - National League Rugby
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Darlington Mowden Park RFC - About Us
On the 27th June l950 the Club received a letter from the Rugby Football Union which read "I am pleased to inform you that my Committee has accepted the Darlington Grammar School Old Boys R.F.C. as a member of the Rugby Football Union from 1st September l950". This was the first milestone along the road which started in1946 when Old Boys of the Darlington Queen Elizabeth Grammar School - mostly ex-forces - played some scratch games at the end of the l945-46 season, and began the l946-47 season as a properly constituted Club. Thanks to the headmaster we changed at the school and played our games on the school field. Force of circumstances meant we carried out our business and social activities in the Kings Head Hotel.
A combination of pre-war stalwarts and a growing stream of first class school leavers soon produced a very successful side. Winning the Durham County Third and Second Team cups in successive years (1949 and l950) we became a Senior Club. Our first County Cap came in the l950/51 seasons, and our contribution to the County Side grew rapidly until on one celebrated occasion we provided a third of the team. In l954 we won the Billingham Seven-a-Side Cup which, at that time, was probably the premier sevens competition in the North East.
In due course it was felt we should have our own Club House facilities, and in l955 we converted rooms above Williamsons Garage in Woodland Road, into cosy, if somewhat cramped quarters. Our initial capital was helped by a very successful sweepstake on the Grand National of that year in which we offered as first prize £100 - quite a tidy sum in those days. Our bar shutter was a splendidly appropriate painting on wood by the Art Master at the Grammar School, and it now very properly, takes pride of place in our re-furbished main bar.
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English
Contact
- Darlington Mowden Park Rugby Football Club
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- Darlington none
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland dl3 8un
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- +079.70087057
