Do you mean the Lingards from Sharlston?

You've missed Mick off as a rugby player dickie, a best mate of mine and he was a very good natural, athletic player, as you will well know Mick died from mesothelioma at the young age of 40, me and the wife went on holiday to Benidorm with Mick and his wife Teresa in November 1988, we came back and in December he was unwell, had tests done and in January told the devastating news he was terminally ill. he passed away in August 1989. all these years later, the night he told me the news that Friday in January in the Jockey on Northgate, is still seared in my memory.

That's where they came from dickie Ivor was the best known I should say but I honestly was thinking about the lindops don't know how the lingards happened old lad unless it's old age or the couple of tots of whiskey. I'd had to keep me going while I get my jab.

We used to call him Micky drip he was the youngest same age as you, which you probably know anyway, the reason I didn't include him was because he seemed less interested than their Baz and all the others had packed in playing, I went to the funeral myself with the Deeley twins, not sure if you know it but his lad Mat posts on here, went to a funeral myself the other year on Eastmoor and had the afters in the Albion, thought I might have seen you in there, sadly not.

It comes to us all mate, I'm still convinced to this day fifty odd years later that we bought Joe Bonner from Workington for £6K, but apparently it was from Whitehaven, good old Wikipedia, not to mention Wakefield Loco turning into Brookhouse when they lost to Donny in the Challenge cup, especially when I watched the game

Joe Bonnar, a great little scrum half who formed a long term half back partnership with the legendary Dave "Toppo" Topliss.
At the time of the Lofthouse pit disaster in March, 1973, Joe Bonnar did a full shift helping in the rescue attempts to recover the six lost miners and then turned out for Trinity in a night match of the same day. A real hero.

Jesus. Cut from a different cloth those boys. My dad was a miner at the prince of wales colliery, different breed

When was he at POW ? I was there from 91 till the 2002 shut down.

85 to about 95/96 I think.

Best pit out of the 5 I’ve worked at, great set of lads, made some friends for life there.

He knows you! He bumped into you just after Christmas outside the ridings. Small world. Speaks highly of you anyway!