behind the goals wrote: ↑Wed Sep 23, 2026 12:29 pm

Bohemians Praha 1905 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 23, 2026 12:22 pm Is MJ Williams the worst club captain we’ve had in our 125 year history?

Can't think of his name but the one in 1911 was worse

Pat Gallacher was the club captain in 1911 and one of the finest leaders and centre halves to have ever played for the club.
How dare you say that he's worse than MJ!

The bold rectangle indicates the most accurate available position and orientation of the pitch.
Taken from the 1902 OS Map from the Barrow Library, with my rough addition.

Nearly there Mark.
If you go up to the Harrogate St junction level, then you're almost there.
It was situated between that level and Dorset Street.

Here’s three maps of the potential Ainslie Street site. The first from 1890 shows the yet to be developed land off Ainslie St to the north of the LongReins Rezzer. I would hazard a guess and say the likely location would be at the field adjacent to the reservoir as the banking at the north edge of ...

I remember my grandad telling me when I was a nipper that Barrow once played on the site of the now Furness cricket club in the late 1800s, sure he said the site was then something to do with horse racing which fits in as he was a bookie. The site was known as the Racecourse and was considered as a...

Little Park was the home of Pulp Works FC, before the arrival of Barrow AFC in 1905. Barrow Rugby were playing at Cavendish Park until the First World War, when the site was commissioned for the war effort, forcing the club to move to Little Park, which at that point, was vacant. Thanks for that, i...

To watch the football, fans were transported by tram to the top of the hill on Abbey Road, before the Strawberry Pub where the line stopped. Apparently very often the tram was overloaded with fans and couldn't get to the top of the hill, so they had to get off and push it up to the top where they a...

All fascinating stuff. When you consider how bad the pitches were just a few years ago but were still playable I’d have loved to have seen the state of the Ainsle Street playing surface when the Lancashire FA deemed it wasn’t fit for purpose. One question were the rugby already playing at Roose whe...

Barrow AFC played on The Strawberry grounds just prior to 1903, when the ground was turned over to become the home of Furness Rugby Union Club, there they still play now. I don’t know how long the football club played there, but it wasn’t for long. To watch the football, fans were transported by tr...

Barrow AFC played on The Strawberry grounds just prior to 1903, when the ground was turned over to become the home of Furness Rugby Union Club, there they still play now. I don’t know how long the football club played there, but it wasn’t for long. To watch the football, fans were transported by tr...

The original Barrow AFC formed in April 1889 used the Parade Ground as their home until their demise in 1894. The second Barrow AFC club formed in July 1901 played at the Strawberry Ground until the end of the 1903-04 season, then started the 1904-05 season at a new ground off Ainslie Street. After ...

WillBAFC wrote: ↑Tue Apr 01, 2025 3:24 pm

snowdog71 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 01, 2025 11:04 am Notts County have already announced that Spence will be signing during the summer.
Daddy Wild will have to be content with Farman for now.

Where’ve they announced that exactly?

It's on their social media feed and local press.

Notts County have already announced that Spence will be signing during the summer.
Daddy Wild will have to be content with Farman for now.

I have also studied the 1904 OS Map and have managed to pin the ground location within a few yards tolerance. If you go past the Harrogate Street level of Ainslie Street, the slope levels off quite a bit and it seems logical that the ground was located around this area. I have the match reports from...