WHERE ARE THEY NOW? WHAT HAPPENED TO THE WATERLOO TEAM?

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Peter Dixon: No.8 was a social anthropologist who worked in overseas development at Durham University.

John Hedley: Durham lock was a policeman in the Durham Constabulary until he retired.

BACK ROW

Richard Breakey: Fly-half, an accountant, was chief executive of Northern Rugby Club and is general manager of Northumberland Golf Club.

Ken Britton: Centre, ran the family business Seafield Caravan Park in Seahouses and has also owned a restaurant.

Ian Richardson: Back row, was a fireman then retired to do electrical work and coached at North Shields rugby club.

Alan Moor: Winger, a school teacher, became Deputy Head of West Denton School and taught in Cramlington.

John Short: Second row, since 1988 has run the REPRIM economic consultancy and has been Gosforth chairman.

David Percy: Scrum-half, made 400 appearances for Preston Grasshoppers and was a director of a building firm.

Stuart Archer: Winger, district manager for a hotel group. Now runs the Moorings Hotel in Chester Le Street while his son Garath played for England.

Richard Mahoney: Hooker, was a project manager at C A Parsons, and M W Kellogg who lived in France for many years.

Duncan Madsen: Hooker, was a solicitor and then became a sports reporter for the Newcastle Evening Chronicle.

MIDDLE ROW

Mick Mahoney: Coach, a teacher and then director of rugby of Newcastle Gosforth before working in logistics in the oil and gas industry.

Colin White: Prop, was a SAS reservist and a PE teacher, then ran a timber, tree surgery and landscape gardening business before he died in January 2011.

David Parker: Back row, coached Durham and was a sales manager then managing director of bakery giants Greggs.

Terry Roberts: Lock, worked at Northern Rock and then became a chartered company secretary in Leeds and North Shields.

Ches Blackett: Second row, worked as a fireman and lives in the Wallsend area in retirement.

Phil Levinson: Prop, worked in the mining industry in the United States and then for an engineering firm and Siemens energy.

BACK ROW

Andy Cutter: Prop, worked for Ian Ball: Fly-half who turned professional Barclays Bank and was a corporate with Barrow, worked as director in the Midlands. He died in a PE teacher in London, Liverpool April 2008, aged 54. and then on the Isle of Wight.

Ray Wood: The chairman of selectors Steve Smith: Second row, only was a piping draughtsman for played a handful of games for the C A Parsons. He died in May 1994. club, moved to Yorkshire, and

Jock Hutchinson: Club chairman played for Old Crossleyans. was managing director of Timber Keith Hancock: England U19 merchants JT Dove. He died in flanker, worked as a research October 2004. chemist at ICI for many years and

retired to the golf course when he

FRONT ROW

was 55.

Barry de Zwaan: Club chairman, a lawyer who worked for Procter & Lol Connor: No.8, played for the Gamble. He died in Toronto, Barbarians and spent 48 years Canada, in July 2010, aged 82. working as an engineer for the

GPO and then British Telecom

Steve Gustard: Winger, worked for until retiring. the Dymo Corporation and then set up a custom clothing firm. His son Peter Sharp: Lock, after gaining Paul coaches Treviso. senior experience at prop replaced Mal Billingham when he

Dave Robinson: Flanker, ran the retired and ran a bedroom furniture family dairy farm outside Cockermouth firm. and was director of the

Mitchells Auction Company. Kevin Short: Lock, worked for the

Civil Service as a computer operator

Roger Uttley: Back row, coached and moved to Telford with the England, was a PE teacher and

Inland Revenue. He died from director of sport at Harrow School.

heart failure in February 2022.

Malcolm Young: Cambridge University-educated

Malcolm Billingham: scrum-half Lock, was a worked for British Steel in Consett, quantity surveyor moving to South then Redcar. Africa, where he was a ranger in

the Kruger National Park until his

Harry Patrick: Centre, elder brother death from cancer in 2002. of Brian ran a Newcastle upon Tyne garage business for many years.

Nick Spaven: Winger worked in the family fish business, later Brian Patrick: Full-back, a financial moving to London and Cornwall rep and then machinery sales before setting up a food and drink manager in the Pharmaceutical Industry. firm Gastro Nicks in Wiltshire.

Frank Blackhurst: Prop played for the North of England against the All Blacks and worked in the Preston-based family building business until retiring.

Dave Reed: Prop, sales manager for an industrial supplies firm and is the director of a family business Ravenhead Laundry in St. Helens.

Mark Wilson: Centre, who also played on the wing, worked in the banking industry until retiring to Portugal.

Keith Lunt: England schools flanker won Lancashire honours worked in his father’s coal business and was the director of a St Helens haulage firm until he died three years ago.

FRONT ROW

Phil Mahon: Won a County Championship with Lancashire in 1969, was a school teacher, now now retired living in Clitheroe.

Gareth Hopkin: Scrum-half, a childhood friend of Olympian Lyn Jones, worked as a PE teacher ending up at Manor in Crosby.

Mark Flett: Winger, was a dentist for more than 40 years in Huyton, Liverpool, before retiring in January 2020.

Steve Christopherson: Centre, spent his working life as a Liverpool teacher at Collegiate, then Head of Chestnut Tree School, and taught PE teacher at Merchant Taylors.

Dave Carfoot: England U23 scrum-half was a school teacher then went into banking with Barclays for 23 years and has worked for Lloyds and Co-Operative bank.

Jerry Simpson: Served the club as captain and president and was involved in farming. Died earlier this year.

Colin Fisher: Hooker, followed in the footsteps of his father Alistair, playing for Waterloo and Scotland, was a chartered surveyor in Chorley then ran nursing homes.

Steve Tickle: Full-back, was a PE teacher at Irvington High School and later became Head of School at Hope Academy, Newton-le-Willows.

Geoff Jackson: Centre, recovered from a broken neck to play at Twickenham and worked as a PE teacher at schools in Liverpool until he retired.

Mike Connor: The brother of Lol Waterloo’s longest serving captain played at prop forward and worked for Manweb until his death.

Adrian Apps: Hooker, an accountant who became director of several companies and was Business Process Owner for Veolia Water before retiring.

Ian Hamilton-Fazey: He worked for Cadbury before becoming a journalist and was northern correspondent of the Financial Times. He died in April 2014.

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Frank Clarke: Prop, worked as an electrical fitter for chemical firm Unilever in St Helens until retiring.

Alan Jones: Flanker, production manager for South Seas Vitamins, first in Blackpool and then moved to Hull until retiring.