Pull The Hudder One
Front cover of a 12-page York Rugby League club match programme (6d), issued in January 1968, for a visit to Clarence Street (or Wigginton Road) by Huddersfield, their Northern League Championship rivals. The ground was never equipped with floodlights hence the early kick-off.
York must have really liked this cover design, featuring a view of the Minster through the trees at the Gillygate end of their ground, because the club retained it for several seasons. For the collector, a dull period!
York played at the centrally located Clarence Street (or Wigginton Road) ground between 1885 and 1989. Faced with a bill of £100,000 for safety measures, and unable in summer 1988 to secure financial assistance from City of York Council, the club sold the site, to a housing developer, for less than half its market value. Flats were subsequently built on the land, sandwiched between Haxby Road and Wigginton Road. York relocated to a new, out-of-town stadium, built near Huntington by Ryedale District Council. This closed in 2014 and was demolished. The site was then acquired and used by City of York Council to construct a £48m sport, retail and leisure development, the stadium segment of which is shared by York's rugby league and football clubs. The stadium opened in 2021.
Pull The Hudder One
Front cover of a 12-page York Rugby League club match programme (6d), issued in January 1968, for a visit to Clarence Street (or Wigginton Road) by Huddersfield, their Northern League Championship rivals. The ground was never equipped with floodlights hence the early kick-off.
York must have really liked this cover design, featuring a view of the Minster through the trees at the Gillygate end of their ground, because the club retained it for several seasons. For the collector, a dull period!
York played at the centrally located Clarence Street (or Wigginton Road) ground between 1885 and 1989. Faced with a bill of £100,000 for safety measures, and unable in summer 1988 to secure financial assistance from City of York Council, the club sold the site, to a housing developer, for less than half its market value. Flats were subsequently built on the land, sandwiched between Haxby Road and Wigginton Road. York relocated to a new, out-of-town stadium, built near Huntington by Ryedale District Council. This closed in 2014 and was demolished. The site was then acquired and used by City of York Council to construct a £48m sport, retail and leisure development, the stadium segment of which is shared by York's rugby league and football clubs. The stadium opened in 2021.