Sefton Harriers A Centenary History
1889-1999
Norman Wilson

secretaryship, there were signs of a breif renaissance in 1967 and 1968 when we met with some success through our marathon team of John Palmer, Bill Bruce, Norman Wilson and Bart Woods. In these Two years we beat Pembroke to win the Liverpool Challenge Trophy in the newly revived Liverpool Marathon which finished at the Wavertree Showground. In the 1967 event John Balmer was a superb in a Club record of 2.25.08.
  Unfortunately John left us to rejoin his former Club Pembroke and Bill Brice, a very promising young Scottish runner, transferred to Wirral.
    By 1969 Sefton's fortunes were at a low ebb with scarcely enough active runners to field a full team over the country. It was Winston Churchill who coined the phase "our finest hour" to describe the time when this country was as it hard pressed during the darkest days of World War II. These oft quoted words would be most appropriate to Sefton situation at this stage of the Club's history.
   Fortunately there was still a few of us around who cared enough about the continuing existence of Sefton Harriers to hang on doggedly and work towards a more promising future.