The club was formed out of an amalgamation, in 1974, of two clubs, Huyton ABC and Whiston ABC.

The original Huyton ABC, based in Page Moss, was formed in 1970 by Fred Leyland. Within 4 years they had their first national champion and international, Frank Lacken.

Whiston ABC started out at the same time, as the BICC ABC, based in the cables factory in Prescot. Danny Curphy was chief coach. The club boasted a host of champions including Keith Wallace who later (as a member of St Helens ABC) represented England in the Olympics and later still (as a professional) became Commonwealth champion.

In 1974 the BICC ABC moved to King George V Playing fields and renamed themselves Whiston ABC, perhaps because Danny Curphy was from that area.

Brin Furlong joined the club as a coach but by 1977 he was struggling as Curphy and other coaches left. A similar ordeal was being experienced by the neighbouring Huyton ABC. Their chief coach, Roy Walmsley, and secretary Eddie Robb decided to leave. Mick Macilwee, at 18, had taken over as the country’s youngest secretary/coach but he and Terry Turner found the going tough.

Both clubs decided to merge and in 1978 Whiston and Huyton ABC was formed. A year or two later they decided to drop the Whiston tag to avoid confusion with the newly formed Whiston Higherside ABC.

Both clubs decided to merge and in 1978 Whiston and Huyton ABC was formed. A year or two later they decided to drop the Whiston tag to avoid confusion with the newly formed Whiston Higherside ABC.

The club grew from strength to strength. The culmination of this was Alan Vaughan winning a total of 7 national titles, a European bronze medal, Olympic representation and a World Junior gold medal. At the same time Peter Culshaw also won a total of 7 national titles including the record for the youngest ever winner of a senior ABA title. Peter is the current World super flyweight champion.

Robbie Culshaw followed in the family tradition by winning 2 national schoolboy titles and England representation.

2001 was a bleak year. Brin died and the club was forced to move into temporary accommodation in Huyon Lane, awaiting the completion of the new purpose built gym, named in Brin’s honour.

There followed a lean year during which no new members were allowed to join because of space restrictions and some of the club’s best lads packed in or had a rest awaiting the new gym.

In September 2002 the club finally moved into their new premises. In the first week up to 60 boys and girls had joined the beginner’s section. We also have about 20 members in the more advanced sessions. Keep fitters train there during the day while women attend Boxercise classes of an evening. The under 10s group train on Sunday mornings. School groups also use the gym.

Such is the quality of the facilities that we have already started running North West squad training sessions at the gym and there is a possibility of running coaching courses for NW coaches.

We now have 10 qualified coaches, possibly more than any other club in the Division. Mick Macilwee recently passed his Advanced coaching course.