The club became one of the founding teams of the Auckland and District League in 1892, and won the Durham Amateur Cup the following year.

Arsenal were said to be "saved from a fate worse than death – a trip to Tow Law in January.

In the summer of 1980, while Waddle was working in a sausage factory, he was sold to Newcastle United for the fee of £1,000.

[4] Harry Hodgson had long served as Chairman of the club, but stood down at the end of 1995–96, but as of 2011 he still remains a member of the committee.

[2] The club made their first and so far only visit to Wembley Stadium on 9 May 1998, by winning through to the final of the FA Vase, under the management of Peter Quigley and his assistant Tony Heslop.

In 2007, Bernard Fairbairn, who had followed his father and grandfather into the job, stood down as club secretary, a post he had held since 1961, giving him a total of 46 years in his position.

[2] Sir Bobby Robson was raised a few miles away from Tow Law, in the village of Langley Park.

He had held the title of life president at the club, and had helped them out when they hit financial difficulties after the 2001 foot and mouth crisis, which devastated the local area.

On 1 August 2009, the club held a minute's silence before their game with Workington, following his death the day before.

[8] At the end of the 2009–10 season, manager Dave Hagan and his assistant Eric Tate left the club.

Ian Davison, a player at the club, took up managerial duties, acting as a player-manager, and appointing Gary Innes as his assistant.

This is common amongst clubs in the North East of England; Premier League club Newcastle United play in black and white, but locally Spennymoor Town, Darlington, Ponteland United and Ashington also wear black and white kits.

[1] The club's crest features a colliery headframe, reflecting the strong history of coal mining in County Durham.

In the club's run up to the FA Vase final in 1998, they left a "trail of devastation" in towns as they progressed through the rounds of competition.

[19] Tow Law's main local rivals are Consett, based only 7.5 miles (12.1 km) away from each other, the two having played together in the Northern League since 1970.

Tow Law reached the final of the FA Vase in 1997–98 but lost 1–0 to Tiverton Town at Wembley Stadium.

[4] The highest attendance figure recorded at Ironworks Road came when the team played Mansfield Town in the FA Cup first round in the 1967–68 season in front of a crowd of 5,500 people.