Fartown - gone.

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HUDDERSFIELD Giants are severing links with Fartown, ending 126 years of rugby at the site.

The club will move its under 21 and under 18 matches to another site after the collapse of a renovation project.....

John Bailey, owner of the Pavilion function room next to the rugby ground, was the objector involved in the planning problems.

He said he always supported the project in principle, but was afraid it would affect access to his business.

Mr Bailey said: "Nobody seemed to wish to allay my fears so I wrote to planning saying in principle I have no objection, but I have to ask how it could affect my business.

"There is a major personality conflict, that is what it boils down to."

Mr Bailey was chairman of Huddersfield Rugby League Club from 1983 to 1989.

Full story from the Huddersfield Examiner

A disgrace but not a surprise.

In the 1970s, the complex consisted of one of the most famous football grounds in the world, a first class cricket pitch and a bowling club. The Bowling Club was burnt down. The Pavilion was turned into some sort of club whilst the pitch was allowed to deteriorate, and as chairman the piece of sh1t drove the rugby club to the brink of destruction. In about 1988 it looked as though we wouldn't start the next season. It's just pure vindictiveness on his part.