ABANDONED FARTOWN STADIUM | FORMER HOME OF HUDDERSFIELD GIANTS

ABANDONED FARTOWN STADIUM | FORMER HOME OF HUDDERSFIELD GIANTS | Tour Obscure (Episode Four)

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Жыл бұрын

Join us for another adventure, this time in Huddersfield as we look at the historic home of The Huddersfield Giants.
Fartown was once so highly thought of that it hosted an FA Cup semi final, but it ended up falling into decline in the 1980’s. Join us as we explore the site of the former stadium and see what’s left.
A huge thanks to Dave Calverley for the use of his images in this video!
Warning: Some references to strong language.
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@tourobscure Жыл бұрын

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@benny_simmo Жыл бұрын

We won't tidy up the place and move back unfortunately. The council wouldn't even pay for the national rugby league museum to be situated in the George Hotel (also worth visiting) where the sport was born

@DT-uy1ex Жыл бұрын

The council would be better pumping money In to this than waisting it in Dewsbury

@overlook237 Жыл бұрын

I left Huddersfield on 2005 but my parents are still there. I'm always dismayed at the state of the place when I drive up for a visit. Is Barry Sheerman still wrecking the town centre?

@mrsjulieb7011 Жыл бұрын

Scattered my dads ashes there 18 months ago. He was a life long fartown fan.

@tigerwarsaw99 Жыл бұрын

Very sorry to hear about your loss. Mine will be scattered with my Dad at Leichhardt Oval in Sydney. And they say it's just a sport.

@Manhasnoname1 3 ай бұрын

Belting video, love how the old railings are still there.

@richardmerriman4347 Жыл бұрын

Great memories,l was born in fartown in 1965 but moved away in 1970 but still went to a few games.I remember going to watch Huddersfield beat Scarborough pirates to win the 3rd division title .I now have a giants season ticket.loyal to the end.

@tlcrf80mins73 Жыл бұрын

Went there a lot following my team - Glad to see it's still used for Rugby League: there's some proper history there,

@lodersracing Жыл бұрын

Amazing how the pitch is still there! I wish the pitch at Swinton's Station Road ground was still there too. I went to this ground in 1990/91 season to watch Huddersfield v Swinton.

@tourobscure Жыл бұрын

An amateur team still use the pitch so it’s maintained to a certain degree. Would recommend a visit if you’re ever in the area!

@mrsjulieb7011 Жыл бұрын

St Josephs amateur RL use it.

@lizclarke8570 Жыл бұрын

Great video i love a bit of Rugby League on the tv.

@tourobscure Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching 👍

@christopherhillam7286 Жыл бұрын

Interesting to see this. I played in a amateur cup final here in 1992. There was still the terraces and changing rooms under them. It was still in the days of massive hot baths rather than individual showers! Thank you for the film.

@tourobscure Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! 👍

@radman8321 Жыл бұрын

Went to a match there once. The terracing was broken up flags and large swathes were taped off.

@Davo_Widnes Жыл бұрын

Great Video. I played here 86-87 for Hudderfield Colts . Antony Farrel was playing First team then but still came away games on the coach with us.. Great Memories

@andysutcliffe4179 8 ай бұрын

great video i remember going there as a child to watch yorkshire cricket an the old fartown rugby club many happy memories

@stevieburrows3953 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for posting this, my great grandfather was called John William Dyson and he played for Huddersfield Yorkshire and England back in the day.

@brianroberts5672 Жыл бұрын

In the 50's I visited this ground as a Saints' supporter. My recollection is of very deep terracing. Another memory is of Huddersfield's aussy winger Lionel Cooper. In the first half he ran through the Saints' defence as if it wasn't there. In the second half the Saints put Don Gullick, a hard centre, opposite him. It made no difference. On a second visit we were disappointed, after a long coach trip, to find Saints fielding virtually an A team in order to protect their first team players for a cup match with Huddersfield the following week. Saints won. I'll not resuscitate the animosity generated by the Wembley final, that I attended, between the two teams.

@tourobscure Жыл бұрын

Brilliant memories, Brian! Thanks for watching!

@gordonmonaghan133 Жыл бұрын

Been to the old Fartown several times. Most notably in 1967(or thereabouts) to watch Featherstone Rovers beat the mighty Leeds in a challenge cup semi final. They then went on to beat Barrow at Wembley in the final!

@tourobscure Жыл бұрын

Brilliant memories Gordon! Thanks for watching 👍

@jossratcliffe8908 Жыл бұрын

My dad played rugby league there in 1999 . A local amateur team played there after Huddersfield .

@richardcodd5323 Жыл бұрын

I was there in 1964 when my team Hull kr beat oldham 12.2 to reach Wembley after 2 epic games at leeds and swinton it will always have a special place in my heart

@damiancartledge7247 Жыл бұрын

Great little video!! I played an u13s School final there in 1978 for Salendine Nook v Deighton ,the pitch seemed absolutely huge at the time!! Fantastic memories, thanks.

@UKsoldier45 Жыл бұрын

Congratulations on a great video!

@no15minutecities Жыл бұрын

Isn't anybody lobbying the local council or whoever to get this ground tidied up???

@AJC535 Жыл бұрын

Was there in 1979 for the Leeds v Bradford Northern Premiership final..Leeds won 20 odd 2 or something.Those railings around the pitch are the original railings I think

@BantamsOnline Жыл бұрын

Who’d have thought it. I never thought I’d be interested in the former home of Huddersfield Giants. But it was interesting. Looking forward to seeing more of these types of vids.

@tourobscure Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching and glad you enjoyed! We have a bradford video coming in the next few months (related to bradford city fc too!) so keep an eye out for that.

@paulfrancis8764 Жыл бұрын

Superb film!

@tourobscure Жыл бұрын

Thankyou! 👍

@thedoc1977 Жыл бұрын

I’m from Melbourne Australia it’s so awesome to see stuff like this keep up the great work

@tourobscure Жыл бұрын

Thankyou very much for watching. Glad you enjoyed!

@janeabbott5379 Жыл бұрын

Brilliant! Very informative!

@anonnemo2504 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for that. I wondered what happened to the ground at Fartown. I watched my team, Wakefield Trinity, play there in the eighties.

@dtkoinew Жыл бұрын

You've earn my subscription and I'm a giants fan it's such a shame I never got to see the ground as I was born in 94 but wow its such a shame. Would love it if giants could move back there but I don't think it will happen 😢

@tourobscure Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the subscribe! Appreciated! Very sad yes, but take the positives, at least there isn’t a soulless housing estate on the site and the sport is still played there!

@adamlawrence6816 Жыл бұрын

Holy cow. My dad and I spent every other winter Sunday afternoon there in the late Seventies and early Eighties, in the main stand, just to the right of the players' tunnel. I still remember the smell of Deep Heat coming from within the bowels of the stand, and the first time my dad heard me swear, when I told a referee his decision was 'Bollocks' (he later asked how I knew the word, I told him I'd read it in Freddie Trueman's autobiography). I went to see Yorkshire play Sunday League cricket on the other side of the complex once or twice too. Melancholic after watching that.

@tourobscure Жыл бұрын

Great memories. Thanks for watching!

@sammyhawkins5590 11 ай бұрын

I used to live near the stadium, why do we let stuff go to ruin and do nothing with the land, it just sums Huddersfield up totally, no investment no care.

@andrewpeacock7223 Жыл бұрын

Brilliant, unexpected stuff like this laying around nice to see info about it.

@garywinterbottom6073 Жыл бұрын

Watched a few cricket finals there as a lad when my father umpired there.

@tourobscure Жыл бұрын

Lovely memories Thanks for watching

@steventotsrusselldj. Жыл бұрын

Didn’t know this ground was still there, they must still use the pitch as it looks like it’s still being maintained

@tourobscure Жыл бұрын

An amateur side use the ground now, so it’s maintained to a basic level Thanks for watching 👍

@pietweety7020 4 ай бұрын

Top content and great video!

@tourobscure 4 ай бұрын

Thankyou my friend! Cheers for watching!

@DeanGibson-us5kt Жыл бұрын

Well done from Australia. Your detail and focus on the site is great,

@tourobscure Жыл бұрын

Thankyou for your kind words! Appreciated!

@JC-hu1wd Ай бұрын

Sad but but the stadium was drlapidated and a death trap. I remember one game early 90s around 1991. Ball was booted on to the main stand and a 20 foot piece of guttering crashed down. Thankfully no one was injured.

@tarlkoroban3733 5 ай бұрын

I am 60. Born and bred in Huddersfield. I have never heard of those 3 cricketers until just now.

@davidgee9241 Жыл бұрын

❤👍🙂 🏉🏉🏉 Thank you . From 🏉 CARLISLE RUGBY LEAGUE SUPPORTER 🏉🏉🏉🏉🏉🏉. who visited THIS GROUND on many many occasions. This brings back happy memories Of all the rugby league I came to see 🏉👍🙂 Here ( in the heart of Yorkshire ). Great day out and camaraderie From all of the 🏉supporters🏉 Was absolutely brilliant. 🏉 MIXING TOGETHER with no problems 🏉👍🙂👍😍. Even in the bar🍻🍺👍 Before and after the game 🏉. WHATEVER THE SCORE🏉🍺🍻🙂👍😍❤.

@tourobscure Жыл бұрын

Thanks David! Glad you enjoyed

@RugbyLeagueHistory Жыл бұрын

This were a really good video. I have done a few videos on the old rugby league grounds of Australia and England.

@tourobscure Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Best of luck with your channel!

@philipclark3922 Жыл бұрын

Great Video

@tourobscure Жыл бұрын

Thanks Phillip! Thanks for watching!

@TheDradge Жыл бұрын

Well done lad. Good video of the old stadium. I'm a big Rugby League fan so much appreciated.

@davidjames3787 Жыл бұрын

I went to the Fartown Stadium when it was still a Rugby League ground. Interestingly I remember the locals shouting 'Come on Fartown' rather than 'Come on Huddersfield'. The local authority should be ashamed of itself to allow the place to become a garbage dump.

@overlook237 Жыл бұрын

People still chant Fartown, Fartown even now at the JS Stadium.

@tourobscure Жыл бұрын

Great memories. Thanks for watching!

@mikebarton Жыл бұрын

Good work.

@tourobscure Жыл бұрын

Thankyou!

@tigerwarsaw99 Жыл бұрын

Love my league history. Great video.

@tourobscure Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! 👍

@overlook237 Жыл бұрын

Holy shit i forgot about this. My grandparents lived in Fartown when I was young and we used to go here. The club changed their name to Barracudas for some reason and are now Huddersfield Giants in the Super League. Thanks for the memories mate.

@tourobscure Жыл бұрын

Great memories, glad you enjoyed!

@ianprotheroe Жыл бұрын

I went to watch a Huddersfield v Widnes cup match there about 1980. I remember the terracing being scarily steep!

@tourobscure Жыл бұрын

Great memories Ian! Thanks for watching

@raymondporter2094 Жыл бұрын

I remember Yorkshire playing County Cricket games at Fartown. Sad to see rhe state of the place now. Nice memorial to 3 great cricketers there, though.

@tourobscure Жыл бұрын

Absolutely beautiful memorial. Much better than some get!

@davek834 Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately with grounds like this, Halifax, knowlesy road, willows, Warrington, they had to go with the new money from sky , I visited Halifax in the late 80s , when they were champions, the toilets were shocking , open top, no roof , and the bogs were smashed up with big nettles growing out of them , I waited until I got home for a crap 😂

@tourobscure Жыл бұрын

Sad but true. State of some of the old facilities were diabolical. But they had character and a certain charm about them. Times move on for the better I suppose, but these places will always be missed despite their facilities (or lack of!)

@martinharvey3990 Жыл бұрын

I played a reserve game at Fartown in the early part of 1996 at the back end of the centenary season.

@tourobscure Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@jossratcliffe8908 Жыл бұрын

I’m sure that the amateur rugby side is Huddersfield st Joseph’s . That plastered there . When my dad played against them I walked threw a turn style

@TouringWithUs Жыл бұрын

Great video...

@tourobscure Жыл бұрын

Thankyou!

@TouringWithUs Жыл бұрын

Look forward to seeing more of your videos soon.. check us out, too!

@egpx Жыл бұрын

I don't believe there was any terracing at the open end behind the goal. Maybe a cinder mound but no actual terracing. I saw Huddersfield play a few times in the early 80s before moving away from the town. The open terracing was an impressive size and the main stand was quite grand even though it was almost certainly a flammable wooden death trap. The barrelled roof stand behind the goal was already pretty dilapidated by then but the place had character. You can't blame the club for moving to the McAlpine Stadium to share with Huddersfield Town though. It's a shame o see what remains of Fartown though, both the RL and Cricket parts of the complex.

@sentimentalbloke185 Жыл бұрын

The first Australian cricket team played a match there during their tour of 1878.

@tourobscure Жыл бұрын

Great knowledge!

@dragonheatgaming5005 Жыл бұрын

There was last time I looked still some parts of the old Bradford park avenue ground

@tourobscure Жыл бұрын

Watch this space….

@petedoh63 Жыл бұрын

Why have you got footage of the Crooked Spire Church in Chesterfield in this?

@tourobscure Жыл бұрын

Hi Pete. That’s our intro. It’s on every video and just shows footage of places we’ve previously covered. The crooked spire features on episode one 👍

@brendanbishop3684 Жыл бұрын

How did sports teams travel back in the 1800s it must have taken days to travel?

@mikebarton Жыл бұрын

By train. The network was, by all accounts, terrific.

@tourobscure Жыл бұрын

Would imagine rail travel was the most popular as the railways were built and the network grew, before then - not a clue!

@zahidBaloch-qn1pp 8 ай бұрын

Pavilion is a mosque now

@ryandorree9874 Жыл бұрын

fucking hell i haven’t played on that pitch for ages

@mikeowen1192 Жыл бұрын

It looks like the new stadium es been abandoned on game day

@jamisbillson4872 Жыл бұрын

Are we lovers of stadiums a bit weird? Kenilworth Road is the Vatican of football though.

@tourobscure Жыл бұрын

Not at all. Been fascinated since I was a kid. Also something about abandoned stadiums that take it to a new level! Thanks for watching

@user-kf5rs8kt4e 4 ай бұрын

I play here

@chriswaring5565 5 ай бұрын

IF YOU PUT ANOTHER T IN IT WOULD BE FART TOWN

@no15minutecities Жыл бұрын

It was a rugby league ground not soccer.

@davidacalverley7508 Жыл бұрын

Did you ask permission to use the photos? No, I thought not. If you would like to contact me, I'll let you know my prices.

@Thailandescapades Жыл бұрын

Grow up !! Pathetic

@UnbelievableEricthegiraffe Жыл бұрын

Are they as expensive as your Wife's?

@CommandoG331 Жыл бұрын

Played there for the Navy against Giants academy around 99/2000. We got beaten but was a good experience and had a big crowd on. The stands etc were still there. Good memories.