Wigan away game late 1950s

[chemicsforever]

Anyone help me, i am trying to find some info on a game at the end of the 1950s when the Chemics won 11-4 at Wigan, might have been a Lancashire Cup game, and Tommy Davies, more well known for playing in the "A Team" than the 1st team kicked a couple of goals in the game, does anyone know the line up from that game?

[prehensile]

The game was a league match on Sat 7th Feb 1959

Wigan 7 - 11 Widnes

Widnes line-up

  1. Pimblett      1 goal

  2. Kinsey
  3. Broome
  4. Thompson
  5. Bright

  6. Myler
  7. Keavney      1 try

  8. Smith
  9. Kemel
10. Bate
11. Sherman
12. Davies         3 goals
13. Major

[chemicsforever]

Thanks a lot for the info on the game......Tommy is my father, and i just wanted to see if the photos i have at home where from that game, i'm sure they are, also my proudest possession i have is the tankard the club presented to him in the 1959-60 season for kicking over 100 goals in the "ATeam"  season...

The game was a league match on Sat 7th Feb 1959

Wigan 7 - 11 Widnes

Widnes line-up

  1. Pimblett      1 goal

  2. Kinsey
  3. Broome
  4. Thompson
  5. Bright

  6. Myler
  7. Keavney      1 try

  8. Smith
  9. Kemel
10. Bate
11. Sherman
12. Davies         3 goals
13. Major

[Peter]

Thanks a lot for the info on the game......Tommy is my father, and i just wanted to see if the photos i have at home where from that game, i'm sure they are, also my proudest possession i have is the tankard the club presented to him in the 1959-60 season for kicking over 100 goals in the "ATeam"  season...

That win was the highlight of the season for me. Beating Wigan in the fifties, when Widnes were in the doldrums, was a huge tonic.

[chemicsforever]

Thanks for all the info on that Wigan game, i recall my dad telling me lots of stories of people from "The White Star" pub going to watch games in those days, especially when there was lots of local players playing for Widnes.

[Peter]

Thanks for all the info on that Wigan game, i recall my dad telling me lots of stories of people from "The White Star" pub going to watch games in those days, especially when there was lots of local players playing for Widnes.

The first games I watched at Naughton Park consisted of teams of all Widnes players, except for Bobby Dagnall who came from Penketh!

[ken.d]

I was at the match with Uncle Ken( Tommy`s brother), my dad and a few other of their workmates from Todds,(the Bunny Yard), who on finishing work on the Sat. dinner told me to get ready we`re off to Wigan, Tommy`s playing. I was about 12 then but remember it as though it was yesterday. Brian Keavney scored our try, straight from the scrum under the Wigan sticks, but during the game Arthur Pimblett missed a few attempts at goal, so they give the ball to Tommy....He didn`t let us down and kicked us to a great win, the last one was a "belter". Not only was the "Roundhouse", the "White Star" and West Bank proud of him but all Widnes.
I used to go to Blackpool as a kid, Davies`, Ditchfields, Allens and Browns etc. Tommy used to come up midweek with his mam and my gran (Mrs Ditchfield) but stayed `til the end of the week.
I worked at the "baggy" with a girl called Joan who married Tommy, I hadn`t seen her for years and years, about 30 at least but went to a cousins "do" at Laportes club and she was there with one of the Davies girls, it was only then I found out that Tommy had passed away a couple of years previously, we reminised and had a laugh as was always the case with Joan. She looked brilliant and a credit to Tommy, he must have really looked after her. What a wife, what a husband, but what a "KICKER".       Ken. D.     

[chemicsforever]

Great post Ken, thanks again, my mother is very well, just over in Aus at present, at my other brothers  for the Christmas and New Year, lovely memories you paint in your post from many moons ago, i loved West Bank growing up as a kid visiting my gran's old house in Cholmondley Street, memories i'll cherish forever, and the goalkicking, i've heard he wasn't too bad at that neither.

Thanks again

[Penkvik]

Thanks for all the info on that Wigan game, i recall my dad telling me lots of stories of people from "The White Star" pub going to watch games in those days, especially when there was lots of local players playing for Widnes.

I was living at "The White Star" in those days and remember your dad very well,Jackie Davies was a barman around about then, having previously worked at "The Round
House" (Bridge Inn) before it was demolished to make way for the approach roads to the road bridge. I think I'm right in saying that he was Tommy's brother and
therefore your uncle.

[chemicsforever]

That's correct "Jagger" was my uncle, a huge Widnes fan,  we had some great Wembley weekends away in my younger days with him and my dad, even if Widnes were not there, trips run from the Royal British Legion in Ditton.

[Penkvik]

That's correct "Jagger" was my uncle, a huge Widnes fan,  we had some great Wembley weekends away in my younger days with him and my dad, even if Widnes were not there, trips run from the Royal British Legion in Ditton.

I remember Jackie coming back from a match that we'd won and exclaiming in his enthusiasm, "you shoulda' seen Frank Myler,he Glid in for a great try".Often chuckle
about that.
I'm sure you'll have seen your dad on The West Bank Heritage site,and on page 137 in "Images of West Bank",on his right is George Waring an old pal of mine who lived in Church st in the early 50s.Tommy was one of the big lads who us younger ones looked up to,but he was the kind of fella who would look out for the younger kids.It was a great community back then and I've lots of happy memories of growing up there.

[ken.d]

Don`t forget Tommy`s "minder" in the "A" team, Percy (Dai) Davies, tough as teak scrum half, (brother or cousin?)
I have a pint in Wigan with his stand-off, a bloke called Jackie Oster.   

[chemicsforever]

Sonny was my dad's cousin Ken, my father thought the world of Sonny, and was very proud of his career at Widnes, he was a lovely man Sonny, off the field, but your correct, very much the old style, hard as nails scrum half, on the pitch, not many of them around now.

[chemicsforever]

Lets hope the team get the win tonight, as its 8 years tomorrow since TD left this crazy world, im sure he will be watching down tonight hoping for a win, and above all a good, honest, hardworking performance from the players in black & white....R.I.P Dad....till we meet again.