Barley Mow, Bramley

53.806°N 1.623°W / 53.806; -1.623

Barley Mow, Lower Town Street, Bramley

Barley Mow was a former home ground of the Bramley rugby league club in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England who moved there in 1881, just two years after their foundation. The club used the nearby Barley Mow public house as changing rooms.^[1]

In 1907 Barley Mow became the first ground to stage a club match against the touring New Zealanders.^[2] In 2007, a blue plaque was added to the Barley Mow pub to mark the anniversary of the tour match.^[3]

In the 1960s, the club moved to a new ground on adjacent land, which became known as McLaren Field. In 1995, the stadium at MacLaren Field had safety problems that Bramley could not afford to implement and it was demolished to be replaced with housing.^[4]

References

1. "History set to record a golden day". Archived from the original on 20 December 2016.
2. "A century of league". bbc.co.uk/leeds. BBC Leeds. 23 November 2007. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
3. "Bramley Rugby League Football Club blue plaque in Leeds". blueplaqueplaces.co.uk. Retrieved 3 December 2016. The Barley Mow Inn ground was the home of Bramley Rugby League Football club (now Bramley Buffaloes) from 1890 until its move to McLaren Field in 1965. Bramley played New Zealand All Golds here in 1907 in the Northern Union's first ever tour game. FOUNDED 1879.
4. Spracklen, Carl (2011). "8. Dreams of Parkside and Barley Mow". In Bramham, Peter; Wagg, Stephen (eds.). Sport, Leisure and Culture in the Postmodern City. Farnham: Ashgate. p. 158. ISBN 9780754672746.