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Talks

Long Lost Sporting Heroes

Wednesday 16 September

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Price
£4
Running time
1pm - 2:30pm
Venue
  • Arts Centre Washington

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Join local historian Peter Welsh to learn about some of the regions forgotten sporting heroes.

Find out about Fatfield’s Matty Rogerson, a potshare bowler and pitman, Barnard Castle’s Madame Angelo, the only female walking world champion, and Gateshead’s Joseph Stephenson Ridley, English champion miler and local legend.