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The Stainland Clubhouse

Stainland had played on the Stainland Recreation Ground for several season when they decided to build changing room in a facility adjacent to the Stainland Rec. car park.

Originally, a wooden classroom was purchased in 1984 from Rishworth school and this was intended to be used as the club changing rooms. However, the timing could not have been worse as within a year of the purchase the horrific Bradford stadium fire occurred and using a wooden structure was out of the question. The current building was built by the club, its supporters and players almost stone by stone and by hand. In the late 1980’s,  stone for the building work  came from a chemical works on the old Stainland branch railway. The weekends took a familiar rhythm. Game on Saturday followed by Sunday loading stone into skips! John Sutcliffe by then club Chairman, took everyone to the Airborne public house in Sowood for steak sandwiches. Needing a few more yards of stone, John had arranged for a wall to be taken down on Winding Lane. It is not clear if the correct wall was taken down!

By 1990/91, the changing rooms were complete and opened for use. It would be another decade before the upstairs was completed and the social area opened. This was very quicky named the “Castouts Bar.”