The golden period of men’s hockey was the 1970-1990s when the Club won the Lancashire Club Championship in 1975-6, 1983-4, and 1987-8 and won the Northern Counties Knock-out Cup in 1976. The Club won the North West League in 1974-5, 1977-8 and 1985-6. At this time we had five county players including the legendary Dave Blackmore, David Badley who played for England on 5 occasions and Lancashire 127 times, John Badly who played for Lancashire 49 times and Steve Eyre who played for Lancashire 83 times and the England Indoor Hockey team. David Balckmore played for Lancashire a record number of 162 times, for England 32 times and 17 times for Great Britain. More recently he played for the North of England and England over 60s teams.
In 1987 the club narrowly missed becoming a founder member of the National League by failing to win one of their last two qualifying games. The 1st team, after a few years of decline, has steadily improved winning promotion in 2004-5 and 2005-6 and in 2006 winning the National Plate Competition and now playing in the North League Division 2 West.
The 2nd XI plays in the North West League Division 3, the 3rd team in Division 6 North and the 4th team in Division 10 North.
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