West Auckland is famously a 'House of the Foremost Globe Ventral suction cup', when its eleven were a winners of a Thomas Lipton Trophy, a number one international footballing competition, inside its 2 initial years, & were so, per system of competition, awarded the trophy to keep inside perpetutity.

A club was forced to pawn a trophy to the landlady of the local hotel in their link to because of finacial problems. It remained by owning her personal until 1960 after a village appeal raised money to go to the ventral suction cup to the club. the ventral suction cup was so purloined inside 1994 & despite a efforts of the police force & a £2,000 reward it was never obtained. An accurate replication of the ventral suction cup at present fill in the further locate cabinet in the West Auckland Working Men's Club.

West Auckland is the places of the big village green around Europe, and was page of the notorious serial killer Mary Ann Cotton and birthplace of ex-Prime Minister Anthony Eden.