I'm selling the picture which was made after the Leigh side of '71 won the Challenge cup. It's the huge picture which was once in the Leigh Arms and is now in The Avenue. I'm led to believe three were made, one is so called in Blackpool one is with me and the other is unknown.

I don't want to sell the picture

but where the picture is will be being used for other things and due to the size it won't fit anywhere else. P.M any genuine offers (I have had a four figure offer already but that was from out of town from a personal collector) it would be nice to keep it local to Leigh.

Donate it to the Club

How did come to own it?

I feel it should be donated to the people of Leigh to enjoy as they did whilst it was on display in the Leigh Arms.

Not sure how it ended up in the possession of the landlord of The Avenue as I never frequent that establishment. I would be interested in his answer.

However as for donating it to the club, I would agree if they gave assurances as to where it could be displayed?

As anyone ever been in the legends bar recently? Not an inkling of Leigh ever having had any legends of the game. No Jimmy Ledgard, No Joe Egan, No Mick Martyn, No Trevor Allan, No AJM, No Woods, No Drummond.

It's no good urging someone to donate such an important piece of memorabillia to the club only for it to end up covered in dust stuffed behind a ticket office cupboard.

Harold I've held a few meetings with LSV of late and they want us to make Legends Bar our club bar trust me.

They have no objection to us putting up club memorabilia on the walls.

We need to make legends the clubs bar like MM bar used to be IMO.

TBH the LSV have never said we couldn't all they said was that they preferred them to not be attached to the walls by screws.

I hope so Andy, I really do as some one was clearly taking the preverbial when they named it 'Legends Bar'.

In fact me and my mucker Arthur have vowed not to go in again as the place gets our blood boiling and that is most certainly not a good situation to be in at our age

We need our identity plastered all over OUR stadium and rest assured it will happen.

I also look forward to seeing ' LSV - The home of Leigh Centurions RLFC' emblazoned on the front of the stadium some day soon.

Noted.

I acquired it from the brewery who owned Leigh Arms just before they closed it at the time they hadn't sold it so it was gonna stay shut. I'm with the same brewery they rang me to go in and see if theres anything I wanted and then they'd give me a price I took the picture and other smaller pictures plus tables, chairs and glasses.