DK has a long and interesting history going back to 1920. It is important that we record and publish this story. It is only when we know where we have come from that we can fully appreciate where we are!
Our Club Historian Bob McMaster has trawled through these archives and has written a number of articles about the history of DK and its links to the Industrial heritage of Dudley and the Black Country. If you have any interest in history you should have a look, DK’s links to the first railway in Dudley, the Titanic, Concorde, the World Land Speed record, the fact that our kit started as Navy & Gold Hoops and much more!
All of our paper based archives have been placed with the Dudley Archives and Local History Service. They have taken all of our documents which will be catalogued and kept in a secure environmentally controlled storeroom.
With the physical archives going to a safe home we also wanted to have easy access to them so we employed the services of a company in Netherton, Scitech Records Management Services. They scanned every book, document and piece of paper we had, it took about 3 months! But we now have all of our archives as scanned PDF’s.
Over the past few seasons records of fixtures and scores have been increasingly done through technology as opposed to the written word. We now must enter teams and results on an electronic match card via the RFU’s Game Management System (GMS). In season 2021 – 2022 we have for the first time not just recorded the team and score but also all the match events including the individual score, type of score, replacements, and accurate times of the above. This has allowed us to produce accurate records of the season not only by team but also of individual players.
In the past we have relied on the team captain or volunteer to keep the records on paper, usually in a hard back book. We have in our archives many of these books lovingly kept by various captains over the years. We will add these to our online records as and when we get them scanned into the computer.
Scroll to the bottom of the page and Click on the season covers to read the documents online.
If you have anything to add to these articles or have any photos of or at DK we would love to hear from you! Please contact us at: dkrfc1920@gmail.com
Please take the time to read them and enjoy!
Click on the Doccument, it will open in a new window as an online Flip Book.
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