HISTORY

The League is now in it's 42nd season

The league started in 1969 as the Burnley Evening Tennis League and grew out of the old Parks League which was the Burnley Corporation parks playing against each other at weekends and evenings. The earliest cash records show that in 1973 Ightenhill "B" existed as a team. The same team i.e. Don Tattersall and Barry Mitchell are still playing in 2010,  Some of the original team names from 1973 still exist but are not the original players. Originally  there was only one division and teams played each other only once. In 1974 with more teams entering it was split into divisions playing both home and away. In 1995 there were 17 divisions comprising 153 teams, but unfortunately since  then there has been a steady decline down to less than 100 teams and 11 divisions in 2008.

Let's try to improve the league and see it grow steadily in 2010

Anyone with any ideas on how this can be achieved please contact

Dave Sudall

01282 430101