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Legends from the past
Dave Skerratt many times Scunthorpe champion, many times Lincolnshire champion. Dave also represented the county on numerous occasions and reached 79 in the England rankings.
Dave Skerratt, Ray King, Neil Parkin and Pete Skerratt in 1979
Neil is also a mutlple Scunthorpe champion as well as county player. Ray was a regular playing for Scunthorpe in the 50's ,60's and 70's. Pete is by far our most successful player ever, numerous Lincolnshire titles and England no 4. Pete was the first player to play on tv when he lost in the final of the Daily Mirror open at the Royal Albert Hall in 1950.
While on national service in Germany Pete entered and won the German Open.
Mrs. Chambers presenting Handicap trophy to Ray Leong.
Ray Leong played with Dave Skerratt in the App Frod A team for many years. He was also a top player and always finished with a personal percentage above 90%.
Mrs. Chambers was the wife of John Chambers who had died a couple of years earlier in 1989. John used to play with the Baysgarth team in Barton and was a very popular figure in local table tennis.
Mrs. Chambers presenting to Tetsuo Kasahara and Neil Parkin.
Tetsuo Kasahara played in Japan and was ranked in their top 20.
He held a senior management position at Citizen on the Kingsway and after 15 years in retirement from table tennis, joined Hospital 'A' helping them win the Premier league. Tetsuo always had great battles with Dave Skerratt and they came out 50/50 winners.
TOMMO
Andy Thomson, former Scunthorpe junior and senior champion as well as Lincolnshire county player
App Frod players Geoff Creasey, Bernard F. Goy and Ray King - 1944
Bernard F. Goy went to live in Bournemouth.
Bernard & Ray both also played for the Scunthorpe Table Tennis Association.
Steve Barnes
A young umpire, John Mackey.
See 'World class umpire'
Rob Trevethick
Played in the all conquering British Telecom team
Anth Thomas
Sam Barnes
back row Chris Leneve, Frazer Bowers, ?, ?, Darren Rush
front ?, Aaron Rush, Laura Brown
Andy Kelly, receives his junior singles shield from former match secretary Andy Jarvis
Big Social
Finals Night - 1980
from left unknown, unknown, Gary Francis, Gary Hall, Nigel Newton, unknown, Roy Bowes, Andy Kelly, Whittaker, Steve Hare, Alan Dolan, unknown, Mick Harris, unknown, Stuart Temple and Janine Wicks
Mick Harris and Andy Kelly who played the 2007/8 and 2008/9 seasons in the Doncater league
