FROM Steve Hesford to Derek Whitehead and Harry Bath to Lee Briers, many a Warrington Wolves legend can claim to have slotted a conversion between the Wilderspool goalposts.

Now the historic sticks are standing tall again on Brian Bevan Island.

The goalposts were saved by the club alongside Wilderspool's scoreboard, turnstiles, seats and turf when the stadium was demolished in 2014.

On Saturday, February 18, the Wilderspool posts returned close to their former home following a restoration project.

Warrington Wolves Charitable Foundation director Neil Kelly said: "It’s exciting as it’s a fantastic landmark for the town, so I’m very pleased.

"When Wilderspool was getting demolished we tried to take as much as we could – all the stuff then got stored over at Total Steelworks and it was just left.

“People still call it Brian Bevan Island but there's nothing there, and when you now drive past where Wilderspool was and look down Fletcher Street there's nothing there either.

“In years to come people won’t even know where Wilderspool was, so we put the old posts up there to remember where Wilderspool was."

Today, Lee Briers, who scored 948 conversions and 74 drop goals for the club, visited the posts' new home to take the two once more.

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Neil added: “It’s symbolic to have them on Brian Bevan Island and to have them as a gateway as people are coming through that way, past Wilderspool, into town.

“It’s a nice fitting memory, and something that the people of Warrington can be proud of – they can remember that past as well as going across town now and seeing the present and the future over at the Halliwell Jones Stadium.

“A lot of people have some fantastic memories of Wilderspool and we should never forget it."