PLENTY IN REDCAR

Many of you will not know of Redcar. It has a race course, a speedway team (The Bears), it is an industrial town in the North-east of England, north of Middlesbrough. It has three football clubs of note, playing in the National League and below.
"Red" speaks for itself, maybe the colour of the local sands, or reeds and "kjarr" is Scandinavian for marsh. It hosts an "iron" industry and inevitably, a steel industry. Oh there is some tourism...brrrrr!
Redcar Town FC (not to be confused with Redcar Athletic FC or Redcar Newmarket FC) cropped up on the radio this afternoon, mainly because the club is being invaded by "detectorists"-you may remember a very amusing comedy drama shown on the telly which I hope will continue to amuse. The detectorists at Redcar are a bit of a nuisance because they dig up the ground looking for valuables-someone's tooth, a piece of shin bone, ref's !
This, by the way, is the Mo Mowlam Memorial Park, remembering the past local Labour Politician.
As you can see below the pitch is not a bad one, but open to the public, so add to the old coin hunters local dog walkers, travellers and motor bikers, the land owned by Redcar Town FC takes a bit of a hammering. The club wants to fence off the land and make it safe and healthy for their numerous teams, but are aware that there is public space around it and do not want to isolate the club from the local community.
There are teams at every age group from seniors (Over 40s), 2 ladies teams (one in the regional Premier) and 2 adult men, with an U23 squad, through to U8s and so there is plenty going on at the Mo Mowlam.
The teams are also "winners", with the adult teams grabbing a number of local trophies playing against attractive clubs such as AFC Bedale, Staithes Athletic and Thirk Falcons, meeting them in the North Riding Football League Premier, Teesside League Div 2 and various regional cups.

Redcar Athletic FC 

(originally Teesside Athletic) play at a higher level on the pyramid, the Northern League Div 2, having won promotion from the Wearside League in 2017-18. They now lock horns with teams such as Crook Town and Bedlington Terriers, a Step higher than neighbours Redcar Town! The Athletic Reserves playing in Div 1 will eventually meet Whitby Fisherman's Society FC, whom, I believe, are a slippery lot. There is the Cleveland links golf course, the first founded in Yorkshire.

NOT FINISHED...there's another club Redcar Newmarket, also playing in the North Riding Premier.

More importantly, Felicity Finch was born here, she plays Ruth Archer in The Archers! You will remember her need to visit home from time to time from Borcestershire.