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[Super Rooster]

Welford Road - Leicester Tigers - Bradford v ?
Sixfields Stadium - Northampton Town FC - Northampton Knights & Emerging Nations game

[Jill Halfpenny fan]

Damn I see someone got in with Ninian Park , , continuing with the Welsh clubs , theres also

Eugene Cross Park - Ebbw Vale RL
Merthyr- Can't remember the name.
Harlequin Rec ground- Cardiff RL
Talbot Athletic Ground- South Wales RL ( the 1996 version) think Aberavon Fighting Irish played there too.
Sardis Road-Pontypridd RL as far as i know.

And unfortunately the glaringly obvious, Brewery Field - Bridgend only sees football and Union these days! Bridgend RL play out of Porthcawl.

Continuing a Welsh theme Widnes played the Bronco's at Aberavon.

[longboard]

Knowsley Road.

[saintfrank]

Dont forget Tesco Park in Wigan

[Keith T]

Borough Park (Workington Reds FC) - Workington Town - used for a couple of games before Dewent Park had floodlights.

Town played at Borough Park, Workington from 1945 until the 1956 season when Derwent Park was opened. They used to share the ground with Workington Reds AFC but there was a lot of tension between the Reds manager, a certain Bill Shankly and the Town manager, Gus Risman and our dircetor Tom Mitchell, so Town took a 150 year lease on the land at DP and built the stadium and moved out.

We did play a few matches later as you say when we didn't have floodlights and also when there was a problem with the grandstand after tunneling work for new sewers for the town caused some concern over the structure.

[Jill Halfpenny fan]

Town played at Borough Park, Workington from 1945 until the 1956 season when Derwent Park was opened. They used to share the ground with Workington Reds AFC but there was a lot of tension between the Reds manager, a certain Bill Shankly and the Town manager, Gus Risman and our dircetor Tom Mitchell, so Town took a 150 year lease on the land at DP and built the stadium and moved out.

We did play a few matches later as you say when we didn't have floodlights and also when there was a problem with the grandstand after tunneling work for new sewers for the town caused some concern over the structure.

First time I went to Workington would have been around 1975 for a Lancs cup semi final that kicked off at about 5.30pm.

[yehhoo]

Boothferry Park where Hull and Rovers played in semi-finals and finals after years of been forced to play at Headingley.
Great Britian v Aussies there to

[Methven Hornet]

Boothferry Park where Hull and Rovers played in semi-finals and finals after years of been forced to play at Headingley.
Great Britian v Aussies there to

Did you have to - I'll have nightmares now!

[Viking Warrior]

oakwell................................wakefields first game in super league against saints.

[Pen-Y-Bont Crusader]

Coychurch Road -Bridgend RL (1984 incarnation).

[Lee]

Some Pics from Hudds last game at Fartown and the ground itself


Thanks to Dave Calverley (Ivor C&G Scarf) whose site it is.


http://galleries.pho.....ast Game.html


Steve May will be getting all weepy looking at them

[Cliff Spracklen]

Barley Mow (Bramley)
McLaren Field (Bramley)
Clarence Field (Bramley)
Parkside (Hunslet)
Leeds Greyhound (Ladbrooke) stadium (Hunslet)
Elland Road (Hunslet)
Wigginton Road or Clarence Street (York)
Seamer Road (McCain Stadium) (Scarborough Pirates)
FieldMill (Mansfield Marksman)
Alfreton Town FC (Mansfield M)
Sutton in Ashfield FC (Mansfield M)
Harvey Haddon (Nottingham City)
Craven Cottage (Fulham)
Crystal Palace Sports Stadium (London Crusaders)
The Valley (London Broncos)
Griffin Park (Broncos)
Chiswick Poly (Fulham)
Brunton Park (Carlisle)
Gillford Park (Carlisle)
Moss Lane (Trafford Borough)
Victory Park (Chorley)
Springfield Park (Springfield Borough)
Borough Park (Blackpool)
Blackpool Mechanics FC (Blackpool Gladiators)
Station Road (Swinton)
Alt Park (Huyton)
Hope Street (Prescot Panthers)
Canal Street (Runcorn)
Hogton Road, St Helens (Highfield)
Show Grounds Dublin (RL Charity shield at the then home of Shamrock Rovers FC)
Douglas Park IOM (CC) not defunct but no longer used for RL
Crown Flatt (Dewsbury)
Craven Park (Rovers)
Hilton Park (Leigh)
Naughton Park (Widnes)
Deepdale (Lancs Lynx)
Owlerton (Sheffield Eagles)
Bramall Lane (Sheffield Eagles)
Saltergate (Sheffield Eagles)
Ninian Park (Cardiff Blue Dragons)
Vetch Field Swansea
London Road Maidstone (Kent Invicta)
Roots Hall (Southend Invicta)
Athletic Grounds (Rochdale)
Gigg Lane (Swinton)
Boulevard (Hull FC)
Fartown (Huddersfield)
Leeds Road (Huddersfield)
Tattersfield (Doncaster)
Belle Vue (Doncaster)
Thrum Hall (Fax)
Watersheddings (Oldham)
Valley Parade (Bulls)
Central Park (Wigan)
Excluded old grounds where RL is still played eg Wilderspool (home to WarringtonWizards please note).

Forgot Boothferry Park, which I have just been reminded about above.
Saw Hull v New Zealand there. Even went on the train to the stadium on a "special" from Hull Paragon. The Kiwis included Gary Kemble, James Leuluai and Fred Akhoi, who were to subsequently sign for Hull.

Edited by Cliff Spracklen, 26 September 2010 - 09:29 AM.

[Blind side johnny]

Some Pics from Hudds last game at Fartown and the ground itself


Thanks to Dave Calverley (Ivor C&G Scarf) whose site it is.


http://galleries.pho.....ast Game.html


Steve May will be getting all weepy looking at them

I remember getting vertigo on that side terrace.

[giwildgo]

I went to all the established RL grounds in the early seventies and often drop by places like Thrum Hall and the Athletics ground, wathersheddings etc when passing to remember the places and see how they are now built on and forgotten.

As for defunct grounds before then I sometimes go to the sites of older grounds if passing. It was a delight to see Broughton Rangers "The cliff" still there, and to pass Bradfords old grounds at Park Avenue and Birch Lane where albeit now only cricket some elements of the old rugby grounds remain.

The sites of grounds of clubs themselves defunct often are built on sometimes they remain as sports grounds. I can't remember which do and which don't, nor can I remember what some kind posters tell me is now sat on Liverpools Knotty Ash ground (the original Liverpool city;'s ground is apparently a Police athletic ground) and Wigan Highfields Tunstall Lane.

When passing near Huyton I tried and failed to find the old ground, and posters kindly gave me directions for next time. great stuff.......

I was actually at Alt Park the other day as part of my job with the Council - the stadium is gone but it easy to find, there is now a park bearing the same name on one half fronting Endmoor Road and a building known as the Alt Resource Centre at the junction of Seth Powell Way and Woolfall Heath Avenue.

[Segovia Carpet]

Always remember that great ref Billy Thompson coming out with this line when he parked at Alt park :-

`Can I mind your car for a fiver`? says this man in the Car Park

`Yes certainly Officer` said Billy

[Trojan]

I was actually at Alt Park the other day as part of my job with the Council - the stadium is gone but it easy to find, there is now a park bearing the same name on one half fronting Endmoor Road and a building known as the Alt Resource Centre at the junction of Seth Powell Way and Woolfall Heath Avenue.

Didnt' Liverpool City used to play at Knotty Ash?

[Chronicler of Chiswick]

Didnt' Liverpool City used to play at Knotty Ash?

Sure did - there's a picture of it in Mike Latham's 'British Rugby League - a Groundhopper's Guide' taken in 1966, doesn't look too bad for the period. As far as Alt Park's concerned, former Fulham owner Roy Close once parked his XJ6 on some waste land by the ground and found it untouched after the game - would this be a unique occurence?

Edited by Chronicler of Chiswick, 27 September 2010 - 09:29 AM.

[Steve Fox]

Naughton Park isn't extinct.

It's the same site as the old ground just renamed and with new stands.

The old ground that was knocked down in 1996 (?) wouldn't have had any of the structures left in place from the original build in 1895 (despite appearances!) but it was still the same venue.

[terrywebbisgod]

Naughton Park isn't extinct.

It's the same site as the old ground just renamed and with new stands.

The old ground that was knocked down in 1996 (?) wouldn't have had any of the structures left in place from the original build in 1895 (despite appearances!) but it was still the same venue.

That's like saying "this is the same yard brush but with a different handle and a new head"

[deluded pom?]

Forgot Boothferry Park, which I have just been reminded about above.
Saw Hull v New Zealand there. Even went on the train to the stadium on a "special" from Hull Paragon. The Kiwis included Gary Kemble, James Leuluai and Fred Akhoi, who were to subsequently sign for Hull.

Didn't Dane O'Hara play that day too?