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marklaspalmas

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To coincide with celebrations for the centenary of our proud club as a senior league side, the Featherstone Rovers archive site is now live and online.

Plotting the history of the club from 1921 to 2021, there is a lot to see. The site contains a record of every game played by Rovers since August 1921 (more than 3,600), biographies of every player who has ever played for the Rovers first team (more than 1,100), as well as an extensive programme collection and photograph library, along with a wealth of other material. The aim is for this site to be one of the most comprehensive of its type in the rugby league world.

The website is the fruit of years of planning and preparation by Stephen Parker and Mark Kirby, but draws heavily on research, donations and work undertaken by numerous people over the decades who have helped tell the story of Featherstone Rovers. Particular thanks go to Irvin Saxton and Ron Bailey, as well as Ian Clayton who have all given kind permission to use their published work on the site.

This is very much an ongoing project, so they are looking for your help too. If you have any information to add about any of Featherstone Rovers’ players, or if you have any photographs, programmes or other material that are not yet on the site, please contact them by email to fevarchive@btinternet.com or on the Featherstone Rovers Heritage Society Facebook page. If you can help them with the momentous task of adding thousands of match reports to the site, they would be happy to hear from you.

You can now visit the Featherstone Rovers achive site at: fevarchive.co.uk

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https://www.fevarchive.co.uk/

 


Scubby

Scubby

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10 minutes ago, marklaspalmas said:

To coincide with celebrations for the centenary of our proud club as a senior league side, the Featherstone Rovers archive site is now live and online.

Plotting the history of the club from 1921 to 2021, there is a lot to see. The site contains a record of every game played by Rovers since August 1921 (more than 3,600), biographies of every player who has ever played for the Rovers first team (more than 1,100), as well as an extensive programme collection and photograph library, along with a wealth of other material. The aim is for this site to be one of the most comprehensive of its type in the rugby league world.

The website is the fruit of years of planning and preparation by Stephen Parker and Mark Kirby, but draws heavily on research, donations and work undertaken by numerous people over the decades who have helped tell the story of Featherstone Rovers. Particular thanks go to Irvin Saxton and Ron Bailey, as well as Ian Clayton who have all given kind permission to use their published work on the site.

This is very much an ongoing project, so they are looking for your help too. If you have any information to add about any of Featherstone Rovers’ players, or if you have any photographs, programmes or other material that are not yet on the site, please contact them by email to fevarchive@btinternet.com or on the Featherstone Rovers Heritage Society Facebook page. If you can help them with the momentous task of adding thousands of match reports to the site, they would be happy to hear from you.

You can now visit the Featherstone Rovers achive site at: fevarchive.co.uk

#UTR | Featherstone Rovers

An absolute joy! Thanks so much to those involved!!

Blind side johnny

Blind side johnny

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1 hour ago, marklaspalmas said:

To coincide with celebrations for the centenary of our proud club as a senior league side, the Featherstone Rovers archive site is now live and online.

Plotting the history of the club from 1921 to 2021, there is a lot to see. The site contains a record of every game played by Rovers since August 1921 (more than 3,600), biographies of every player who has ever played for the Rovers first team (more than 1,100), as well as an extensive programme collection and photograph library, along with a wealth of other material. The aim is for this site to be one of the most comprehensive of its type in the rugby league world.

The website is the fruit of years of planning and preparation by Stephen Parker and Mark Kirby, but draws heavily on research, donations and work undertaken by numerous people over the decades who have helped tell the story of Featherstone Rovers. Particular thanks go to Irvin Saxton and Ron Bailey, as well as Ian Clayton who have all given kind permission to use their published work on the site.

This is very much an ongoing project, so they are looking for your help too. If you have any information to add about any of Featherstone Rovers’ players, or if you have any photographs, programmes or other material that are not yet on the site, please contact them by email to fevarchive@btinternet.com or on the Featherstone Rovers Heritage Society Facebook page. If you can help them with the momentous task of adding thousands of match reports to the site, they would be happy to hear from you.

You can now visit the Featherstone Rovers achive site at: fevarchive.co.uk

#UTR | Featherstone Rovers

Great work.

Every club should have one.

Sport, amongst other things, is a dream-world offering escape from harsh reality and the disturbing prospect of change.

Gooleboy

Gooleboy

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2 hours ago, marklaspalmas said:

Thanks for the comments guys. It's been a real labour of love.

It's a credit to you, and great for the Club and Supporters.

BrisbaneRhino

BrisbaneRhino

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Had a quick look and have to say its pretty much got everything you'd want.  Great job. Especially adding photos and pen pictures for every player - that's a lot of work on top of the matches and player records which is itself a huge job.

Man of Kent

Man of Kent

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2 hours ago, Stephen P said:

Thanks Man of Kent.  We will get that sorted - it seems to work on some platforms but not others. 

Didn't work on my iPhone but does on my PC (Chrome browser).

Steve Slater

Steve Slater

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Fantastic! Trouble is I can't leave it alone. It doesn't half bring back memories.

steve oates

steve oates

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On 27/01/2021 at 15:15, marklaspalmas said:

To coincide with celebrations for the centenary of our proud club as a senior league side, the Featherstone Rovers archive site is now live and online.

Plotting the history of the club from 1921 to 2021, there is a lot to see. The site contains an extensive programme collection.......

 

The rare gems from the 1920's are fantastic, thank you for the link and your and everyone else's hard work.

Scubby

Scubby

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3 hours ago, Steve Slater said:

Fantastic! Trouble is I can't leave it alone. It doesn't half bring back memories.

Agree it is addictive. Such an amazing resource. Basically a window into my childhood. 

Stephen P

Stephen P

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Apologies to anyone who used the contact page on the site.  Discovered yesterday it wasn't working so anyone who did try to contact us via that route please can you resend.

cheers

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