Quote: Slugger McBatt "rl]"Slugger McBatt"]I have been contacted by someone who is writing a book on Wakefield in the 1950's, and he wants to get the history of Belle Vue correct, but there appear to be conflicting accounts of the early days.
In "A History of Wakefield Trinity Football Club, 1873 - 1960", written and compiled by D W Armitage & J CLindley, it states that "Trinity moved to the present field in 1878-9............"
The club website statesBut their move to the current arena which still forms their home did not come until late in 1892. In December of that year the club agreed to lease a field adjacent to the St Catherine's School and there they made their headquarters which have remained so throughout the rest of their history."
So there appear to be two different versions. Which is the correct one?
Can anyone help, and where exactly were the Alexandra Hotel and the fields behind it?'"
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Try contacting John Goodchild,he is a very efficient local historian.
). Ask the RFL if we could play without names on the shirts (no disrespect to the lads who would be playing in them) and the the shirts could be auctioned, for perhaps squadbuilder, with one shirt going into the new museum/memory hall.
