I went along to Egremont this week to meet up with a Cumbria rugby union legend, Mark ‘Tank’ Richardson.
His family have been involved in Hartley’s ice cream business for 40 years and in another 10 years it will be celebrating a centenary.
We chatted about ice cream and then turned to the game of rugby union in which Mark excelled for many years – playing for Egremont, Sale, Gosforth, Aspatria, Orrell and notably the Barbarians.
His greatest moment in a Cumbria shirt was lifting the County Championship Trophy at Twickenham while the Barbarians shirt, he wore against Leicester, hangs proudly in the Aspatria clubhouse.
To hear about Mark’s career and his thoughts on the game in Cumbria just listen below:
