|
 |
Rank | Posts | Team |
International Chairman | 5894 | No Team Selected |
Joined | Service | Reputation |
Dec 2001 | 23 years | |
Online | Last Post | Last Page |
Feb 2025 | Jan 2025 | LINK |
Milestone Posts |
|
Milestone Years |
|
Location |
|
Signature |
TO BE FIXED |
|
| Quote RIGSBY="RIGSBY"its funny they never called us glass then... (amongst other things)..
'"
No you've just got Leon who's the glasser instead.
|
|
|
Rank | Posts | Team |
Player Coach | 928 | No Team Selected |
Joined | Service | Reputation |
Nov 2008 | 16 years | |
Online | Last Post | Last Page |
Feb 2013 | Feb 2013 | LINK |
Milestone Posts |
|
Milestone Years |
|
Location |
|
Signature |
TO BE FIXED |
|
| Quote pocket*trout="pocket*trout"I was an apprentice with Rylands when it was owned by British Steel in the early 70's. They didn't just make wire but also wire products. It had the biggest nail factory in Europe. "Rynails" were known worldwide.
The only wire player I can remember working for Rylands was Mike Peers who worked in the stores in the "Sixpenny" building on Battersby Lane.'"
very true! my mum used to work in the nail factory. apparently the pay was good aswell.
|
|
|
|
Rank | Posts | Team |
Player Coach | 968 | No Team Selected |
Joined | Service | Reputation |
Nov 2008 | 16 years | |
Online | Last Post | Last Page |
Jul 2009 | Jan 1970 | LINK |
Milestone Posts |
|
Milestone Years |
|
Location |
|
Signature |
TO BE FIXED |
|
| Quote RIGSBY="RIGSBY"its funny they never called us glass then... (amongst other things)..
'"
to quote the great john cooper clarke...."you put the shat in shatter"
|
|
|
Rank | Posts | Team |
Player Coach | 830 | No Team Selected |
Joined | Service | Reputation |
Nov 2008 | 16 years | |
Online | Last Post | Last Page |
Aug 2012 | Aug 2012 | LINK |
Milestone Posts |
|
Milestone Years |
|
Location |
|
Signature |
TO BE FIXED |
|
| Warrington was a centre of steel (particularly wire), textiles, brewing, tanning and chemical industries.
Heavy industry declined in the 1970s and 1980s but the growth of the new town around Warrington led to a great increase in employment in light industry, distribution and technology.
Still are the centre of the tanning industry by looking at some of the women walking around town
|
|
|
Rank | Posts | Team |
Club Coach | 683 | No Team Selected |
Joined | Service | Reputation |
May 2005 | 20 years | |
Online | Last Post | Last Page |
Dec 2013 | Oct 2013 | LINK |
Milestone Posts |
|
Milestone Years |
|
Location |
|
Signature |
TO BE FIXED |
|
| Quote RIGSBY="RIGSBY"its funny they never called us glass then... (amongst other things)..
'"
were'nt saints at some point in the past known or refered to as "the glassmen"?
|
|
|
|
Rank | Posts | Team |
International Chairman | 3796 | No Team Selected |
Joined | Service | Reputation |
Jun 2002 | 23 years | |
Online | Last Post | Last Page |
Aug 2023 | Jul 2023 | LINK |
Milestone Posts |
|
Milestone Years |
|
Location |
|
Signature |
TO BE FIXED |
|
| Quote bombheadwire="bombheadwire"very true! my mum used to work in the nail factory. apparently the pay was good aswell.'"
I hope she didn't spend it all getting "hammered".
Did you see what I did there? 
|
|
|
Rank | Posts | Team |
International Chairman | 19907 | No Team Selected |
Joined | Service | Reputation |
May 2002 | 23 years | |
Online | Last Post | Last Page |
Mar 2025 | Oct 2018 | LINK |
Milestone Posts |
|
Milestone Years |
|
Location |
|
Signature |
TO BE FIXED |
|
| Quote pocket*trout="pocket*trout"I was an apprentice with Rylands when it was owned by British Steel in the early 70's. They didn't just make wire but also wire products. It had the biggest nail factory in Europe. "Rynails" were known worldwide.
The only wire player I can remember working for Rylands was Mike Peers who worked in the stores in the "Sixpenny" building on Battersby Lane.'"
Hence the name Sixpenny Fields for the houding development?
|
|
|
Rank | Posts | Team |
Player Coach | 125 | No Team Selected |
Joined | Service | Reputation |
Jun 2009 | 16 years | |
Online | Last Post | Last Page |
Nov 2009 | Jan 1970 | LINK |
Milestone Posts |
|
Milestone Years |
|
Location |
|
Signature |
TO BE FIXED |
|
| Quote Teddington Wire="Teddington Wire"were'nt saints at some point in the past known or refered to as "the glassmen"?
i thought they were called "robertsons" ?
cos they have more jam than them.
|
|
|
|
Rank | Posts | Team |
Player Coach | 54 | No Team Selected |
Joined | Service | Reputation |
Feb 2008 | 17 years | |
Online | Last Post | Last Page |
Sep 2009 | Jan 1970 | LINK |
Milestone Posts |
|
Milestone Years |
|
Location |
|
Signature |
TO BE FIXED |
|
| Quote Harry Pinner="Harry Pinner"I hope she didn't spend it all getting "hammered".
Did you see what I did there?
'"
She could do what she wanted she was hard as nails!
|
|
|
Rank | Posts | Team |
Player Coach | 1034 | No Team Selected |
Joined | Service | Reputation |
May 2007 | 18 years | |
Online | Last Post | Last Page |
Jan 2012 | Dec 2011 | LINK |
Milestone Posts |
|
Milestone Years |
|
Location |
|
Signature |
TO BE FIXED |
|
| Quote RIGSBY="RIGSBY"its funny they never called us glass then... (amongst other things)..
'"
Its just really really hard to find useful/interesting things in Warrington.
|
|
|
Rank | Posts | Team |
Player Coach | 20628 | No Team Selected |
Joined | Service | Reputation |
Mar 2009 | 16 years | |
Online | Last Post | Last Page |
Aug 2016 | Aug 2016 | LINK |
Milestone Posts |
|
Milestone Years |
|
Location |
|
Signature |
TO BE FIXED |
|
| Quote Batesy="Batesy"Its just really really hard to find useful/interesting things in Warrington.'"
if we started a new team now would we be singing
'Furniture, furniture, furniture'
in 80 years time ?
|
|
|
|
Rank | Posts | Team |
Player Coach | 295 | No Team Selected |
Joined | Service | Reputation |
Apr 2009 | 16 years | |
Online | Last Post | Last Page |
Dec 2020 | Aug 2016 | LINK |
Milestone Posts |
|
Milestone Years |
|
Location |
|
Signature |
TO BE FIXED |
|
| Rylands were also the largest producer of barbed wire for the MOD
|
|
|
 |
|