In 1977 the club had seven junior members selected to represent the area, at the International Budo Federation, European Schools Judo Championship, to be held in Frankfurt West Germany,they were Lorraine Birmingham, Jan Russell, Kevin Dobie, Brian Green, Steve Makin, Paul Davis and Stephen Brown.
We departed by train for London early in the morning of May 6th, after a few hours sight seeing, including a visit to Downing Street we made our way to LHR for our flight to Frankfurt, arriving early evening at the Haus Der Jugend Hostel our home for two nights.
The British team mamager Nobby Clarke had us at the competition venue in good time. Our big success came with Stephen Brown when he defeated the previous years champion, to win the gold medal in the boys under 27k event,a tremendous moment for him and all of the team, despite a good effort from the rest of our squad there would be no more medals.
When we arrived back home, Linda our secetary had arranged for us to go to the BBC for an interveiw and this was shown on Look North that evening.
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