Stockport & Reddish Sunday Football Records

[PaulJC]

Hi All,
I am currently trying to write a short history of the Stockport/Reddish Sunday Football Leagues. I am particularly interested in the period 1970 to 1980. Do you know if local reference centres hold such records? I would like to obtain copies of the league tables, game reports etc. I also understand that the Saturday "Football Pink" reported on these leagues so again, where might I gain access copies of this paper?
Best regards,
Paul

[rolnora]

Hi Paul,
Stockport Heritage Library may be able to help with the Stockport/Reddish Football Leagues. They do hold most of the local newspapers.
http://www.stockport.gov.uk/
From the link go to libraries and then heritage library for the email address.

From memory the "Pink" was a Manchester Evening News Publication and there is a post here that might interest you.
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=280105.0

[rolnora]

You might find something of interest in the Stockport Image Library.
There are some photographs of the local football teams.
Put "Football" in the search box
http://www.rootschat.com/links/0shj/

[PaulJC]

Thanks and I will follow up.
I am really looking for information on a team called North Park Rangers, whose home ground was at one time Reddish North Park. They were managed by a man called George ..... who lived on Stockport Road, Reddish. I understand they played in the Stockport or Reddish District Sunday League during the 1970s. Hope this might ring a few bells with someone!
Regards
Paul

[heatherjulie]

Paul,
Have you tried posting on a Reddish or Stockport page on Facebook?

Heather

[PaulJC]

Thanks,
I am not a real fan of Facebook but it might lead somewhere !

[Ray T]

I'd agee with that Paul! Presumably they still read the Stockport Advertiser in the snowy wastelands north of Broadstone Road?

[heatherjulie]

The Advertiser is now the Manchester Weekly -part of Evening News Group.

[Ray T]

So long gone are the days when Stockport itself supported not one but two weekly newspapers.