- Holker Street
Holker Street is a
sports stadium located inBarrow-in-Furness ,Cumbria ,England . It has a current capacity of 4256, [ [http://www.nwemail.co.uk/afc/stadia_can_cater_for_hundreds_more_fans Stadia can cater for hundreds more fans]North West Evening Mail ; 23-07-08; Accessed 23-07-08 ] of which 1000 is seating. However, the stadium's record attendance of 16,874 was set in 1956 for theFA Cup third round match betweenBarrow A.F.C. and Swansea City.Barrow A.F.C have used this ground since 1909, but it has also been used as a speedway track during its history. The
Barrow Bombers operated from Holker Street from 1972 until 1974. [Bamford, R & Jarvis J.(2001). "Homes of British Speedway". ISBN 0-7524-2210-3]Holker Street was at the centre of Barrow's financial problems of the late 1990s, due to disputes over its ownership, which coord|54|07|23.76|N|3|14|05.81|W|region:ES-CN_type:landmark_source:dewiki|display=titlenow rests with the football club.
The stadium's future is uncertain, as Barrow A.F.C. consider plans to relocate to a new stadium in Barrow's proposed docklands development. Such a ground would be undoubtedly shared with
Barrow Raiders , the town'srugby league club.References
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
