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| Location | Bradford |
|---|---|
| Record attendance | 10,807 for Bradford Northern v Dewsbury, 16 February 1924 |
| Construction | |
| Opened | Before 1886 |
| Renovated | 1929 |
| Expanded | 1908, 1913 |
| Closed | After 1934 |
| Tenants | |
| Bradford Northern Bradford F.C. | |
Birch Lane was a rugby league ground in Bradford, England. It was the first long term home of Bradford Northern Rugby League Football Club, who played there for 26 years from 1908 to 1934 before moving to Odsal Stadium.[1] For a short while it was also home to Bradford F.C. in their first incarnation as a football club. Birch Lane was described as "notorious"[2] and a "poverty-stricken place"[3] and was never popular either with Northern or, for the short period they were there, Bradford F.C.
There is also a cricket ground at Birch Lane which adjoins the site of the rugby ground, home to Bowling Old Lane Cricket Club. This predates the rugby ground and continues in existence to this day.
- ^ Delaney 1991, p. 44.
- ^ Ludlam 1969, p. 17.
- ^ Ludlam 1969, p. 19.