Book Signing at A1 Stairlifts With Rugby League Legends

19th November 2014

Keighley Cougar’s shop is now officially located in A1 Stairlifts showroom on South Street in Keighley (West Yorkshire).  On December 13, rugby league legend and one of BARLA’s founding members Maurice Oldroyd and Geoff Lee will be hosting a book signing here from 10am-2pm.

A must for rugby league fans!

Maurice Oldroyd launched his book Building The Family Game A Rugby League Memoir this year. He was a key person involved in developing the amateur rugby league since the foundation of the British Amateur Rugby League Association (BARLA) in 1973. As  BARLA’s first full-time employee he played a major role in its development until he retire in 2000.

He then became BARLA’s chairman in 2001 until 2005, and today is the Association’s patron. This memoir is essential reading for rugby league fans.

Geoff Lee’s book Two Seasons: Work, Family, Old Friends and Rugby League is his 5th novel in a series about life in the Lancashire town of Ashurst. The main characters are Alan and Thelma Greenall. Alan who worked for over 40 years as an electrical draughtsman at Wilkinson’s Engineering Works – part of a multinational company with HQ in Amsterdam. Fact and fiction are brought together throughout the novel and particularly in the chapters Hazel says ‘no to Bush and Blair’ and “The spoilt papers might win it”.