The first club to win All Four Cups was Hunslet, which they did in the 1907-08 season.

This engine later renamed Charlie was the first of twenty similar engines built for this quarry and did much to establish Hunslet as a major builder of quarry engines.

In 1999, the Rams finished top of the Northern Ford Premiership, the league below the Super League, reaching the Grand Final at Headingley which unfortunately ended in a narrow defeat to local rivals Hunslet Hawks.

The team went on to win the championship that season, clinching it with a 50 point win away over Hunslet.

The new cut at Castleford opened in spring 1775, while those at Knostrop and Hunslet were finished in 1779.

No. 4 was unserviceable when it arrived, but John Alcock, the chairman of the Hunslet Engine Company, was a member of the Preservation Society and had No. 4 overhauled free of charge at his works.

* Challenge Cup final – Hunslet 14 – 0 Hull at Fartown Ground, Huddersfield

* Challenge Cup final – Oldham 19 – 9 Hunslet at Fallowfield Stadium, Manchester

* Alice ( locomotive ), a Hunslet 0-4-0 &# 160 ; ST, used to work in the Dinorwic slate quarries at Llanberis, in North Wales

Rovers also won the only Challenge Cup Plate beating Hunslet Hawks 60-14 at Wembley.

Hunslet Hawks, a local rugby league club, shared the stadium in the mid-1980s after the ground at the greyhound stadium in Parkside had been demolished.

In 1971, 73050 was moved to the British Sugar Corporation's sidings at Fletton, where it was joined by Hunslet 0-6-0 locomotive ' Jack's Green '.

By 1906, Hunslet was home to Leeds ’ second largest gas works, the city ’ s main rail goods yards, known at the time as ‘ Midland Goods Station ’ ( now the site of Crown Point Retail Park ), as well as a large number of factories.

York's last match at Clarence Street produced a 26 – 17 victory over Hunslet in front of a crowd of 2, 904 spectators.

He does bear a resemblance to several designs of 0-4-0 tank locomotive built by the Avonside Engine Company such as GWR No. 1340 Trojan, and so Awdry stated that Percy had probably begun as one of these, but had been extensively rebuilt – " fitters at Crovan's Gate have found components made by Hunslet and other manufacturers ".

RSH 7151 and Hunslet 1837 ' Jessie ' at Oldland Common railway station

In 1946, Salford appeared to be on their way to a third consecutive peacetime final, but Salford lost, unexpectedly, at home to Hunslet ( 15 – 8 ) at the quarter final stage.

The Roughyeds won 31-26 at home to Swinton in the first round of the play-offs before winning 54-30 at home to Hunslet.

Irish Mail is typical of many small engines built at Hunslet for use in quarries

The Hunslet Engine Company was founded in 1864 at Jack Lane, Hunslet, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England by John Towlerton Leather, a civil engineering contractor, who appointed James Campbell ( son of Alexander Campbell, a Leeds engineer ) as his Works Manager.

In 1870, Hunslet constructed their first narrow gauge engine Dinorwic, a diminutive gauge 0-4-0 saddle tank for the Dinorwic Slate Quarry at Llanberis.

Alcock came to Hunslet at a time of change when the industry was being asked for far larger and more powerful locomotives than had ever been required in the past.

This was true at Hunslet which found its overseas customers asking for very large engines.

It was during the 1930s that Hunslet built their largest locomotives ; two 0-8-0 tank engines, built for a special train-ferry loading job in China – they were at that date the largest and most powerful tank engines ever built.

Hunslet ’ s forward pack of that season was equally ( in ) famous, going by the name of " The Terrible Six ".

The club had decided prior to the season to take two home fixtures to other parts of South Wales, the first of which was a 36 – 18 win over Hunslet Hawks watched by 415 people at Talbot Athletic Ground in Aberavon.

The points scored in one match record was later broken again in the season after an 84 – 10 thrashing of Hunslet Hawks on 11 August.

He is a fan of Hunslet RLFC and also played stand-off for them in the 1952-53 season, winning a Yorkshire Cup Medal.

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He exhibited his first films in the Whitley factory in Hunslet, Leeds and in Oakwood Grange, the Whitley home in Roundhay, Leeds, but they were not distributed to the general public.

In 1913, they paid a world record £ 600, plus £ 14 per match, to Hunslet for Billy Batten, one of only seventeen players, and the only representative from Hull FC, so far inducted into the British Rugby League Hall of Fame.

After WWI Hunslet were once more able to attract overseas orders and they also received a series of repeat orders from the London, Midland and Scottish Railway for 90 LMS Fowler Class 3F ' Jinty ' 0-6-0T shunting engines.

After playing seven matches in just ten days, they lost 7-4 to Salford in the final of the Challenge Cup at Wembley ; they also lost in the Championship play-off semi-final 13-7 against Hunslet.

Under captain, Hector Halsall, Swinton were the last team to win All Four Cups ; they were also the only side from Lancashire to achieve this feat ( Hunslet and Huddersfield were the two other clubs ).

Hunslet undertook the rebuilding of many NCB locomotives and when the Army started to sell off locomotives again in 1959, they bought 15 examples that were to be rebuilt and sold on.

The order for these locomotives had actually been given to the Hunslet Engine Company in Leeds but as they were already busy, the work was sub-contracted to Sheffield.

On 21 April a Crusaders squad with 11 Welshmen in their ranks defeated Hunslet Hawks 14 – 28 to again qualify for the next round.

He moved to Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK in 1866, after being invited to join John Whitley, a friend from college, in Whitley Partners of Hunslet, a firm of brass founders making valves and components.

The Gilbert unions were exempt from the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 but disbanded in 1862 and after that Middleton became part of the Kirkstall Poor Law Union until 1869 when it joined the Hunslet Poor Law Union until 1920, the same year it was incorporated into the City of Leeds.

They were the second club to win the Challenge Cup after beating Hunslet 19-9 in 1899.

After a long period of operation the company was acquired by the Hunslet group in 1972 and renamed Hunslet-Barclay ; in 2007 the company changed hands after banckrupcy becoming Brush-Barclay as part of the FKI Group.