THE scoreboard from Wilderspool Stadium is set to be rehomed in Victoria Park.

Warrington Borough Council has granted planning permission for the refurbished scoreboard that once stood proud at Warrington Wolves’ former home to be resurrected near to Victoria Park’s athletics stadium.

It is hoped that the scoreboard could be unveiled in February next year.

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The scoreboard shortly before Wilderspool was demolished in 2014

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Neil Kelly, Warrington Wolves Charitable Foundation director, said: “The aim is to try to get it up in February.

“We’ve just been waiting for the planning permission to come through, and we know now we can do it.

“The stake is in the ground, so we know where it’s going.

“As you drive in, it will be on the athletics side facing the car park - there is a kind of natural cutting within the trees where it will be sited.

“Nothing is totally concrete but we’re finally getting there.”

Work to restore the scoreboard began at 4.40pm on Thursday, September 21 2017 - exactly 14 years on from the final whistle of Warrington Wolves’ final game at Wilderspool, against Wakefield Trinity in 2003.

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Then Mayor of Warrington Cllr Les Morgan, Mike Lomax, Paul Cullen and Bob Connolly at the beginning of the restoration project in September 2017

Wire fans raised more than £6,000 in order to kickstart the project, with refurbishments having been carried out at Total Steelwork and Fabrications - only metres away from the club’s new home, the Halliwell Jones Stadium.

February will mark 15 years since the club’s first game at the HJ, also against Wakefield Trinity in 2004.

But that will not be the only milestone marked next year.

Neil added: “We have looked at significant times in our heritage that will have anniversaries in 2019.

“It will be 25 years since Jonathan Davies was named Man of Steel, and 25 years since Mike Wainwright and Jon Roper made their debuts.

“Sixty years ago, it was Alistair Brindle’s last game for Warrington and it was Mike Gregory’s last game for Warrington that week 25 years ago too.

“We’ve got a whole list of players who survived the First World War who returned to play for Warrington in 2019.

“There will be some really big milestones to mark.”