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Talks

Long Lost Sporting Heroes

16 Sep 2026

1:00pm

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Price
£4
Running time
1 hour 30 minutes
Venue
  • Arts Centre Washington

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

Including Fatfield’s Matty Rogerson, a potshare bowler and pitman; Barnard Castle’s Madame Angelo, the ‘’Only Female Walking Champion of the World.’; and Gateshead’s Joseph Stephenson Ridley, English Champion miler and local legend.