fantastic history of widnes vikings

[Rickp]

Did you click on the link earlier in the thread?

No I didn't sorry.
But I have now. I don't want to start fights or anything like that.
But what does this prove all that item says to me is The Guardian was a very small Newspaper in those days.
It seems an awfully big THE GUARDIAN NOVEMBER 13 1875 looks rather large to be above such a small & irellevent article, about people having a cup tea in Widnes Cricket Club.
I just looks like cutting & somebody has stuck a date on the top.
I'm not saying its not genuine, but its hardly conclusive.
But having said that in 1875, November 13 was a Saturday so I'll have to believe this is the genuine article.
So 1875 it is for me then. Unless somebody else can prove otherwise.
Cheers mate.

[HopeThisHelps]

No I didn't sorry.
But I have now. I don't want to start fights or anything like that.
But what does this prove all that item says to me is The Guardian was a very small Newspaper in those days.
It seems an awfully big THE GUARDIAN NOVEMBER 13 1875 looks rather large to be above such a small & irellevent article, about people having a cup tea in Widnes Cricket Club.
I just looks like cutting & somebody has stuck a date on the top.
I'm not saying its not genuine, but its hardly conclusive.
But having said that in 1875, November 13 was a Saturday so I'll have to believe this is the genuine article.
So 1875 it is for me then. Unless somebody else can prove otherwise.
Cheers mate.

I've got the full page from that day's paper. The date isn't actually over that article - I just assembled the bits so you saw the report and the date together but it's 100% genuine. It was the Widnes Guardian rather than the Manchester version.

I've just been looking at the obituary of Jimmy Tilley from the Weekly News of 18 December 1942 and it refers to his dad having been a club founder in 1876 - which ties in with the date of the first reported game.

[Rickp]

Ok Mate you'll do for me.
But even if I do say so myself I thought I did quite well to spot that it had been doctored in some shape or form.
Cheers!