He is pictured on the home page of the website as a window into the beginnings of my archery club, the Bowmen of Bruntwood, in 1950. And he is still...
[caption id="attachment_322" align="alignnone" width="300"] Women shooting during the Victorian period, location unknown. (Image courtesy of the Archery Collection, Manchester Museum.)[/caption]
I have possessed a bow for much of my life. My earliest memories are of trying to shoot chickens on a farm in Marple, Cheshire, as a small boy. Luckily,...
The Bowmen of Bruntwood was formed in 1950 by Trevor Francis, at his flat on Cheadle high street in Stockport. He’d been a glider pilot in the Second World War,...
For years, I had wondered just who were Cheadle Archers. The name of this Victorian club is on three trophies that had come into the possession of my own club,...
