After nearly 40 years in the job, Hillmen club secretary Peter stepped down from his position in the Summer.
Peter has had a decades-long association with the club – he was appointed as Secretary in 1979! – and in rightful recognition of his long service will become a Vice President of the club. Of course you’ll be seeing him at almost every game as usual, with the only difference being that he will have a little less to worry about!
Club Chairman Dave Atkinson was full of praise for Peter. “It’s quite simple really,” he said, “without Peter and Peter Heginbotham from Davies Blank Furness we wouldn’t have a club. The work that the two of them did together in the clubs darkest hours means that Surrey Street is still a football ground rather than a warehouse because, but for their efforts, we wouldn’t have been here. He’s seen the club through thick and thin, and much of it thin, I have nothing but admiration for him.”
“Peter is a one-in-a-million person for a club. He’s done pretty much every job here, including washing the kit and even picking the team. He is so meticulous; I think he still has all the players’ details on file somewhere – everyone who has signed for us in the time he’s been secretary.”
The Club Secretary role has been filled by Lesley O’Donnell who Peter has mentored these last couple of years.