Obituary: Billy Garratt – The local hero who helped Whitehaven beat the Kangaroos

Billy Garratt was a star stand-off who skippered Whitehaven in one of their best-ever seasons, 1956/57, when they beat the touring Australians and came within one win of Wembley. He was versatile enough to also operate at scrum-half, in the centres and at loose-forward, whether for his only professional club, for whom he played 234 games (with 4

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