News

11th August 2010

The museum receives many unexpected visitors, and today is no exception Mick Adams who is in the UK for a couple of weeks, visited the museum while it was closed to have a look around




Twelve locals and a south african.

After several requests from visitors we have a number
of copies of the above book for sale. 
The price of the book is £4.99.  Please contact the
musuem or Deb on 07968865596  if you want to
purchase a copy.

Thanks


Sat 12 June 2010


Frank Myler attends a book signing session in the museum 

‘A Touch of Class’ charts Frank's early playing career at Widnes through to his move to St. Helens and his latter years as player-coach at Rochdale, before his retirement from playing.  

Fascinating excerpts from Frank's memoirs provide unique insights into his ‘Three Lions’ tours, including his glorious tour as the victorious Lions captain in 1970, and his 1984 tour as Coach.  Frank's toughness and sheer rugby league ability stands out in this thoughtful account of his distinguished career and illustrates that he was indeed a player to sit back and admire.

Frank was accompanied by Jim Mills and Ray French.  Also there was Dave Hadfield and Ron Campbell

Books can be ordered at the Museum  at the price of £13.99.(cash only) 


5th March 2010

The Tobin family have kindly donated former Physio Frank Tobin famous Black Bag, along with several Wembley blazers to the musuem

        


11th December 2009.


We can confirm we now have 20 copies of Martin Offiahs book available for purchase from the museum priced £8.99.   To check the number of books left you can contact Debbie on 07968 865596.   Any commission made will be donated to Widnes Vikings


29th November 2009

We have been in touch with Martin Offiah’s agent and his publishers Libros International re his new book, and the possibility of Martin visiting the museum and doing a book signing.  A suggestion we have from them is March next year, however it has been suggested in the meantime we can sell his book to gauge interest. Any commission from the sales will be donated to Widnes Vikings.   This is subject to approval from all relevant parties.  We will update information when we can.



7th November 2009

The museum receives many unexpected visitors, and recently we had a couple of  pleasant surprises when a couple of past players had a look around the museum, Richie Eyres popped in while the museum was open to the public, we were also visited by Barry Sheridan who was in the UK visiting relatives, he called in while the museum was shut to have a look around.



16th October 2009

Another visit from Phil Cantillon, with more donations to the museum. On this occasion Phil has kindly donated grand final winners medals, player of the month awards along with other items.  His display cabinet is certainly worth the visit.

22nd June 2009
                                    

12th June 2009

Mick Burke visited museum and has kindly donated his Gt Britain Playing shirt, he wore this shirt while playing in the 2nd test against New Zealand in 1980

 

 27th May 2009

Phil Cantillon visited museum and has kindly  donated two tankards which were presented to him to commemorate 30 tries in a season and 7 tries in a match. Phil has also donated the man of the match award he won in the 2001 NFP Grand Final.

 

 6th March 2009

We will have the Challenge Cup on display in the Museum this Friday and Saturday, if anyone wants to come along, have a look and have their photograph taken with it.

27th January 2009 

Photograph of the presentation of a cheque given to Steve O’Connor for £402.37 which was made from the profit of sales of the ‘Dreams to reality’ book written by Mike Healing, the book was on sale through the museum, which made a profit in the region of £370, and also through book outlets 

In the photo (left to right): Steve O’Connor (Club Chairman), Deb Townsend (Museum Curator), Mike Healing (Book Author) and Lee Paterson (Vikings Player)



6th December 2008

Mike Healing author of  'Dreams to Reality' was at the museum 1 -3 for a book signing session

25th October 2008

we are extending the tour to include the gym (Saturdays only).  You may visit the museum either before, or after the stadium tour, you can spend as long as you wish exploring the great history of the club

2nd August  2008                

Tommy Sale Visited museum

 

26th June 2008

Mike Healing signing the first book sold in the museum.

 

 25th June 2008 

Phil Mackenzie visited museum

 30th May 2008

Mike Healing's chronicle of the 2007 season entitled 'Dreams to Reality' can be ordered from the Widnes Rugby
League Museum priced £10.99.  All proceeds from the book going to the Club.

 20th April 2008

Widnes Caps, Scarves and Fleeces are now available from the museum shop (Subject to availability)

10th April 2008

We have now included a reference section in the museum, and also we have recently had several new donations, including 1993 Wembley blazer donated by Esene Faimalo.

 28th March 2008

The museum will be open again on Friday 4th April

11th March 2008

Due to the Leigh & Whitehaven games we have to shut between 16th March till 4th April.

There will be regular updates of new items added to the collection in the ‘Viking Storm ‘ from the Leigh game onwards

8th March 2008

We had a display at the Sports persons Dinner in partnership with Widnes Supporters Club. Below is a photo of the past players that attended the dinner  they were players from the 1989 squad that won the World Club Challenge against Canberra.

 15th February 2008

The museum will be reopening

1st February 2008

We are proud to announce that the museum is sponsoring the full-back position, and that the visitors donations have contributed to the sponsorship of Paul Noone's kit.

 

9th November 2007

Barry McDermott, Terry O'Connor, Phil Clarke and Eddie Hemming from Sky Sports visited the museum.

2nd November 2007

Weston Point became the first school to visit the museum. The museum is working in partnership with "Vikings in the Community"

 24th September 2007

Widnes players took time out of their busy schedule to visit the museum.

4th August 2007

Paul and David Hulme cut the ribbon to officially open the musuem!

      


 10th July 2007

WE OPEN ON THE 4th AUGUST !!!!

Please come along and give us your support on the day. So many people have pulled together to make this possible and we really want to meet and thank everyone personally.

 8th April 2007

We have received £2000 in sponsorship money from HBC Area Forum and £3000 from Mersey Partnerships. We thank both organisations for their support

 23rd January 2007   

We have received a grant of £43,200 from the National Lottery Fund. This award will allow us to transform the East Stand Concourse of the Halton Stadium into phase 1 of the Heritage Centre. We would like to thank everyone who has helped us to achieve this grant.

 

 7th January 2007   

We have received a community grant from B&Q to cover the painting costs of the concourse.  A big thank you to B&Q for your support


14th November 2006

We held a display at the Community Foundation for Merseyside's AGM and would like to thank them for their supporting grant.

 31st October 2006

We have submitted a Heritage Application and have been assigned a grants advisor who will look after our application. We have to wait about 3 months before we find out if we have been successful so more news on that as soon as we can.


Phil Cantillon revisited the museum to donate more trophies he gained while playing for Widnes.  They include his 1999,2000 & 2001 Player of the Year Trophies, along with a couple of tracksuit tops he had while representing England and Ireland in 2003.  Phil will be making a return visit on Sat 4th July 11am to meet and chat with museum visitors.