This section of the website has been reproduced from the commemortive booklet printed in 1995.

The Beginning

In the lacrosse season of 1875 to 76 Stockport Lacrosse club was founded. Since that time to the year 1996, 120 seasons of the Clubs existence will have taken place, making Stockport...

"the Oldest Club in England" ...and perhaps the World.

For the celebration of this achievement, an at the time of the staging of the World Cup in Manchester England, the current Stockport Lacrosse Club Committee has supported the production of this Commemorative Booklet for the enjoyment interest of lacrosse enthusiasts everywhere.

The whole of the Club Membership extends a warm welcome to all the international visitors to England for the 1994 World Cup.

Paraphrasing the words of L. B. Johnson, Club President 1925-26...

'In the season of 1995/6 when the Stockport Lacrosse Club attains its 120 year of continuous existence, the Committee, in the accompanying pages, give, as far as its been able, an brief insight into the history and activities of the Club since its formation in the season of 1875-6. It is a record of which the Club and all associated with it are naturally proud. The Club, like all sports organisations, has has its periods of great successes, and seasons when the ambitions of the players and supporters have not been realised, but throughout the one hundred and twenty years the players, and many of them among the most brilliant in the the lacrosse world, have played the game for the shear love of it, And it is mainly of this truly sportimg spirit which has characterised Lacrosse players during this long period, that the game has continued to retain its popularity in Stockport.'

The above statement has been taken from the Jubilee Souvenir booklet preface produced in 1925 for the 50th anniversary and reproduced here changing only the periods and dates to have it apply to the 120th anniversary. The sentiment L. B. Johnson conveyed in 1925 is still equally relevant for the Club and Lacrosse players of today.