That also sounds daft enough to be true..

It was in open rugby magazine many years ago! Think i may have saved the copy as it told the history of our ground.

That’s because it’s not true

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The stand roof was used to make a ‘Dutch’ barn by a farmer in Pontefract or that’s the story I’ve been told by numerous people.

It was close though in a Chinese whispers kind of way.

I'l have to dig the magazine out now! May take a few days.
Oh and there used to be a cycle track that ran around the pitch but on the terraces.

Never heard it described like that before but a very apt description in the old days. Doesn't happen now but had some good times as kids playing in 6 foot high foam drifts at the front of Allinsons mill.

Yeah remember an article mentioning the cycle track, wasn't the track laid on ash which was contaminated with nic or some such thing, that's what makes BV very difficult to re develop?

I remember walking to work at Rowntrees as it was called back then and foam all over the roads near the bridge.

When I was a kid (before the days of the automatic washing m/c) most housewives did the weekly wash on the same day. They used to say you could tell wash day because all the water from the twin tubs went straight through the drains and into the river which then frothed up going over the weir. No such problems at Wakey due to the complete lack of soap.

I'm sure it still applies, but back in the day the housewives of Cas used to hide their purse under the soap so their husbands wouldn't find it

Quote cheshirecat57="cheshirecat57"I'l have to dig the magazine out now! May take a few days. Oh and there used to be a cycle track that ran around the pitch but on the terraces.'" You're spot on about the cycle track - www.trinityheritage.co.uk/through-the-years/ It's the reason why the terracing in front of the East stand is so sunken as that used to be the sloped track. NB: A farm building with a curved or pitched roof set over a steel, timber, or concrete frame without walls, used for storing hay - kind of fits.

Quote cheshirecat57="cheshirecat57"I'l have to dig the magazine out now! May take a few days. Oh and there used to be a cycle track that ran around the pitch but on the terraces.'" You're spot on about the cycle track - www.trinityheritage.co.uk/through-the-years/ It's the reason why the terracing in front of the East stand is so sunken as that used to be the sloped track. NB: A farm building with a curved or pitched roof set over a steel, timber, or concrete frame without walls, used for storing hay - kind of fits.

Don't know how that happened

Nothing to do the cycle track as such. The whole north terrace is built on a pile of ash and colliery waste. The old south terrace was the same.. This is nothing out of the ordinary as most RL grounds had their terracing built in this way. They then used to step them and grade them with old railway sleepers.

We could have had sleepers on our ground at one time ,but way before I remember. Belle Vue was one of the few grounds that had concrete terracing. If you look at the terracing on the old sections you can see its hollow, and that is because its re cycled sections from a second world war floating dock, or so I'm told.


Last but not least, Yes the old south stand was demolished and sold to a local farmer as a barn.