Sefton Harriers formed as an off shoot of Dingle cycling club in 1889 and based themselves in the south end of the city. The ‘Sefton’ comes from Sefton Park which is quite close to the Florence Institute where the Clubs founders member met.  

Club colours were first red, but due to the number of other clubs using red they changed to a black and white hoop vest around the turn of the century and remained that colour till 1995. The Club enjoyed a great deal of success in the years prior to the first world war, with a number of members winning internationals honours. Double Olympic Champion at Paris in 1900 Jack Rimmer 4000m s/c and 5000m team race, was later to be president of the club for many years. The most decorated man in British military history a double V.C and military medal winner Captain Noel Chavasse who ran at the London games of 1908 number among it's ranks. 

At the end of the war the Club re-located to West Derby Village and has maintained a presence in West Derby to the present day. The period between the wars was again fruitful with the Club producing many fine athletes.   

Two long jumpers W H Childs and Jack Pozzie held the North of England long jump title between them for ten years from 1920 until 1930 (Childs 20-25, Pozzie 26-30) Childs was also triple jump champion  in 29, 31 & 32 and finished second to Harold Abraham in the AAA long jump. 

The Club began activities again at the end of world war two and had a successful period in the 1950s and early 60s. The late 60s and the most of the 70s were lean years for Sefton Harriers but they maintained a regular presence at all major championships on both road and country.   

The 1980s and early 90s saw an active Club with a broad representation on track & field, roads and country.   

A ‘Centenary History’ of Sefton Harriers was written by Norman Wilson, a loan copy is available from Liverpool Central library    
Sefton Harriers Roll of Honour
Captain Noel Chavasse

Liverpool Pembroke formed in a chapel in 1890, in an area of Liverpool known as Pembroke Place. This explains the mystery of how a Liverpool Club has ‘Pembroke’ in its name. Like Sefton they took their name after an area within Liverpool, only the area they choose had a Welsh place name to confuse many up to the present day. Like Sefton they had a cycling connection and for many years they were known as Pembroke Athletic and Cycling Club.   

Club colours were red and white hoops. The Club had quite a mediocre early first few years.   

The confusion over the name saw ‘Liverpool’ placed before Pembroke so as to identify the home of the Club to the uninformed, by the late 60s the cycling had also been dropped from the title. The middle wars years saw the Club grow and take up its long term residence in Court Hey Park in the Huyton area of Liverpool which was to remain their home until redevelopment forced them away in the 1960s.   

The period after the second world war until amalgamation in 1995 was the most successful in the Clubs history. They had a strong links with the Huyton area and staged the very popular 'Pembroke 20 mile' road race there. Ron Hill set a world record of 1.36.28 on 25 May 1968 during the race. The increase in road traffic forced a change of venue too Crosby in the 1980s. The race continued for a couple of years and petered out. The Club had now set up home at Kirkby Sport Centre in the north of Liverpool, a new synthetic track and stadium provided the spring board for the Clubs success during the 70s,80, and early 90s. This period at Kirkby produced many fine athletes for Pembroke.   
Mark Bleasdale hopes to complete a history of Pembroke shortly.