Letchworth Garden City Rugby Union Football Club is a rugby union club based in Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire, England. The club runs up to three senior teams each week. Along with a Mixed Ability side the Braveherts and has thriving Mini, Junior, Girls and Ladies sections the Lionesses. The first team recently got promoted from London 2 North West finishing in second place. (2021-2022 season) .Durning the league they had beaten every club in the league and also remained unbeaten at home throughout the campaign - a feat only achieved twice before in the clubs history 1960 and 1991. The lionesses and the men's team had recent success in the Hitchin 10s Tournament. August 2022 https://www.thecomet.net/sport/letchworth-rugby-club-at-hitchin-10s-9214590 History (For more information see the club's history page on its website) Formation Though there are some suggestions that a rugby club may have existed in Letchworth Garden City before the First World War, no documentary proof has been found and it is not until 1924 that the first records exist of the game being played in the town. Letchworth Garden City Rugby Club itself was founded two years later in 1926 when a group of rugby followers, led by Arthur A Lamb, met at the offices of Bolton and Tabor in the Town Centre and declared that "no town could be complete without a rugby club" (a reference to the fact that the town itself was only just over 20 years old). Despite this apparently late start to the game (the town already had well established clubs in many other sports) Letchworth was one of the first rugby clubs to be formed in the area - local rival clubs in Hitchin, Royston and Stevenage not being formed until after the Second World War. The first match was played against RAF Henlow (the airmen won), and the new club also played teams such as Luton, R.A.F. Duxford, Wellingborough and a B.B.C. team which included the well known broadcaster Rex Alston. Home games were played on a pitch in Pixmore Avenue, loaned by Phoenix Car Company, and players changed in the nearby Balmoral Hotel. However the club's history reports that "it was tough going. Letchworth had a shifting population and few rugby players stayed for long. There were some soccer converts who had a lot to learn: the lineouts were hopeless, there was no idea of loose play or binding tight but they persevered. On