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Issue number 95 Summer 2026

On the front cover:  

Billy Boston and Johnny Freeman – Boys from Tiger Bay.

Features include:

The road to Roy Francis – Robert Gate remembers his famous interview with Roy.

A new history of the World Club Challenge – Fantasy Games that never happened.

Rugby League players from the 1955 British Lions against Springboks R.U. series –

(including Tom Van Vollenhoven, Wilf Rosenberg and Robin Thompson).

Wakefield Trinity versus the 1973 Kangaroos – Les Sheard recalls a rare experience.

When Castleford’s Tigers built the success of Great Britain’s Lions.

‘Six Again’ is simply asking for trouble – our opinion on the game in 2026.

How Wigan discovered a star – George Fairbairn from the Scottish Borders.

Challenge Cup kick off in 1967 as Leeds met Blackpool Borough.

Bradford Northern v Wakefield Trinity in 1965 and a trip by Gert Coetzer.

The England Under-19s of 1956 who made history by winning in France.

Fun and games with the 1963 Kangaroos – inside stories from an Ilkley hotel.

Harry Edgar’s 50 years of publishing Rugby League magazines.

Doncaster’s original stadium and the early days of ‘Rocky’ Turner.

London Under Lights – the final part of the story of Highfield at the White City in the 1930s.

Norman Darbyshire – former Leigh player so proud of his Rugby League roots.

The rise of Papua New Guinea – history, politics and the birth of the Chiefs.

Carcassonne crowned as the most successful club in French Rugby League history.

Whitehaven’s pioneering programmes of the early 1970s.

Hunslet at Parkside – classic photos including Geoff Gunney and Alan Snowden.

A Swinton flyer – Peter Kenny remembered on a good day at Station Road.

Alex Givvons – the Welshman who became a Rugby League icon at Oldham.

Vic Yorke and Willie Hargreaves – great men of York.

Don Parry – a rare Blackpool Borough international.

Dennis O’Neill – a World Cup winner from Widnes.

Brothers – from Britain and France – who played international Rugby League.

Searching for relatives of the 1946 ‘Indomitables’.

Bradford Northern hooker Peter Dunn playing the Kangaroos at Odsal.

Warrington’s new ‘Hall of Fame’ members – favourites of the primrose and blue.

Featherstone Rovers ‘A’ team – Yorkshire Senior Cup winners of 1973-74.

Team photos: Huddersfield (1962-63), Salford (mid 1970s), Leigh (1967-68), Papua (1969).

Obituaries and tributes to: Kevin Ashcroft, Gordon Brown (World Cup winner), Green Vigo, Vince Fawcett, Ray Glastonbury (ex-Workington Town), Cliff Lambert (ex-Featherstone Rovers), Kevin Whittle (ex-Swinton), Mike Stephenson (ex-Hull K.R.), Ronnie Campbell (referee), Ian Coles (ex-Whitehaven), Terry Parkinson (ex-Warrington), Steve Hankins (ex-Dewsbury and Featherstone Rovers), Bill Parkinson (ex-Salford) … and others.

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