| Old football ground help 11:58 - Apr 3 with 8128 views | electricblue |
Is that old football ground down the Backburn Road Endenfield on the B6527 still there!
Who played there can anybody remember!!! |  |
| My all time favourite Dale player Mr Lyndon Symmonds |
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| Old football ground help on 10:24 - Apr 5 with 1990 views | EllDale |
I actually played both codes on the pitches on Ings Lane, football against Spotland Methodists and rugby league against Spotland Rangers.
The latter used to change in the pub on Rooley Moor Road whose name escape me (not the Royds Arms) before relocating for some reason to Balderstone Park.
Does anyone remember St Pats pitch on Walker Street? It was before my time as a player but I remember being taken as a kid to watch them. They had a really good team in those days and used to get good crowds for an amateur team. |  | | |
| Old football ground help on 10:32 - Apr 5 with 1980 views | mingthemerciless |
| Old football ground help on 09:41 - Apr 5 by EllDale |
Did Stan Milburn turn out for Turners the odd time?
You could always get a game if you turned up at Lenny Barn or Firgrove with your boots.
At Firgrove you could end up with an away game on your "home" pitch due to fixture vagaries.
I had a spell playing for a team whose home games were at St Joseph's school which was more or less brand new then. Massive pitches and a nice warm shower! |
Stan played for Turners for a while. He also coached us for a time as did a guy called Phil who played for Leeds Utd , his second name I forget but he was a bloody hard task master regarding pre-season training. I'd never been as fit. The late Brian Green also worked there for a spell before he went out to Australia. | | | |
| Old football ground help on 10:42 - Apr 5 with 1972 views | mingthemerciless |
| Old football ground help on 09:57 - Apr 5 by RooleyMoorBlue |
We used to play our home games on that pitch at Springfield Park, loved it. It was a home pitch for sure and we always played uphill in the first half if we won the toss, to save our legs in the 2nd.
Also played on Turner`s in a Cup final on Boxing Day when it was frozen solid, we were runners up after leading :( The Uncouth Rd was a nightmare as was the one off Bury Rd/Sandy Lane (the name escapes me) at the back of Redbrook school. If it rained pieces of glass and metal used to come to the surface!
Whitworth Workers with the old factory wall running alongside the pitch?
Played on both pitches off Ings Lane. The one nearest Spotland was St. Clements old pitch and I played against Stan Milburn on there when he was in his 50`s. He was so clever to make up for his lack of speed and stood out like a sore thumb because of his class.
As you say, happy days and the happiest of my life certainly. |
My only experience of refereeing was a " friendly " on Turners ground on a Boxing Day. I was out injured but I'd turned up to watch.
It was a game between TBA first team versus the reserves. The ground was frozen solid but they played anyway ! I agreed to ref although I was still struggling with a sore knee. The game turned into World War 3 with team mates trying to cripple each other ! Until you've had a go at refereeing you'll never know how hard it is, especially without linesmen. | | | |
| Old football ground help on 11:00 - Apr 5 with 1953 views | since58 |
Anyone remember playing on pott hall pitch in Heywood, it had a cast iron grid
near the haifway line. | | | |
| Old football ground help on 11:02 - Apr 5 with 1950 views | EllDale |
It that was St Joseph's school, then yes, I remember it! | | | |
| Old football ground help on 13:20 - Apr 5 with 1905 views | mingthemerciless |
The only problem with playing on Turners pitch was that it spoiled you for any other local pitches. Going from there to Stoneyfield or Gravelhole was heartbreaking. | | | |
| Old football ground help on 17:49 - Apr 5 with 1854 views | Yorkshire_Dale |
| Old football ground help on 09:31 - Apr 5 by mingthemerciless |
Wasn't his wife called June Mills ? She later married Stuart Chadwick if my memory serves me well. |
Ming....is that Stuart Chadwick of Rochdale Construction Co on Witoth Road?
Was June a good looking extrovert lass......they lived in Bamford? | | | |
| Old football ground help on 18:39 - Apr 5 with 1825 views | mingthemerciless |
| Old football ground help on 17:49 - Apr 5 by Yorkshire_Dale |
Ming....is that Stuart Chadwick of Rochdale Construction Co on Witoth Road?
Was June a good looking extrovert lass......they lived in Bamford? |
Yes and yes. | | | |
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| Old football ground help on 18:51 - Apr 5 with 1815 views | robtheb |
Played on the "camels hump" at Springfield park during my school days. Because I was only small, from the running track end I could only see the crossbar at the other end. Knackered when I came off there. | | | |
| Old football ground help on 21:18 - Apr 5 with 1745 views | since58 |
| Old football ground help on 13:20 - Apr 5 by mingthemerciless |
The only problem with playing on Turners pitch was that it spoiled you for any other local pitches. Going from there to Stoneyfield or Gravelhole was heartbreaking. |
strange really how a lot of the Rochdale amateur league cup finals were played
on stoneyfield in the sixties. | | | |
| Old football ground help on 23:33 - Apr 5 with 1703 views | Yorkshire_Dale |
Thanks a lot....knew them both well. | | | |
| Old football ground help on 10:07 - Apr 6 with 1622 views | mingthemerciless |
| Old football ground help on 23:33 - Apr 5 by Yorkshire_Dale |
Thanks a lot....knew them both well. |
I knew Stuart from school and June from the usual haunts around town in the 1960's. I was shocked to hear of Stuart's death, he seemed to have everything to live for. | | | |
| Old football ground help on 13:30 - May 27 with 1453 views | iadom |
| Old football ground help on 13:17 - Apr 4 by DiddyDave |
I remember going to that Cutgate ground to watch a Youth Cup Final on an Easter Monday between Syke Youth Club and Haggate Lads from Heywood,got to be around 1962/63. Fantastic game,one of Syke`s players broke his leg,no subs in those days,but they took Haggate to extra time and were unlucky to lose,3-2.
We used to wag school on Friday afternoons from the Tech in 1965 and go up to the defunct Dunlop Bowls Club to play five a side on the greens,one of us keeping a look out for the coppers.
Brights had a good ground,didn`t play on it myself,but saw some great games on there. |
As a former player I must correct you, Haggate Lads where from Royton, not Heywood. ;) | | | |
| Old football ground help on 13:09 - May 28 with 1251 views | DiddyDave |
| Old football ground help on 13:30 - May 27 by iadom |
As a former player I must correct you, Haggate Lads where from Royton, not Heywood. ;) |
Thanks for that,did you play in that Cup Final? | | | |
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