Sport and Recreation Heritage
Peeps, lets get this thread going places again.
Now we've developed a healthy taste for photography, can we please get out and about looking for buildings, sporting venues, structures, road names plus other clues and indicators to Liverpool's rich sport and recreation heritage past.
Please include any older images from various sources too, old gymnasiums, sporting venues etc...
Here's the earliest example of evidence of sport, Robin Hoods Stone (Booker Avenue) - 8ft tall. The grooves face the sun, we can assume that the Arches did their sharpening with their backs to the sun!!
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Sharon Willis is Europe's first female Boxing coach....She trained at the Rotundra Club...Kirkdale.
The oldest rugby club in the world
Liverpool Rugby club is the oldest in the world.
Thanks to FKoE for that.
The first public baths in the country
Frederick street baths were the....first public baths in Liverpool and the country!
Liverpool is the most successful sporting city in the UK
According to Steven Parry:
Liverpool's Commonwealth Games athletes will be guests of honour at the city's sports awards ceremony on Thursday.
The 13 athletes, who came through the city's Sports Development Programme, between them won seven medals in Melbourne last month.
The awards, which celebrate the city's sporting talent, are being presented by former Commonwealth and Olympic swimming medallist, Stephen Parry.
Previous winners include Parry, Wayne Rooney and gymnast Beth Tweddle.
'Shop window'
The Sporting Honours Awards began in 1994 as a way of recognising the achievements of the young sportsmen and women who represent Liverpool.
More than 80 individual and team awards will be presented on Thursday night.
Stephen Parry said: "Liverpool is the most successful sporting city in the UK, and it's essential that we celebrate the fantastic achievements of our young sportsmen and women. "The Annual Sports Awards provide a shop window for excellence, and really emphasise how well the city is performing both nationally and internationally."