Barry Town
Floodlights
Jenner Park - Then & Now
Groundtastic takes a look at the Welsh club’s transformed home ground
Twenty years ago one would have been hard pressed to find a gloomier, more decrepit ground in
the upper echelons of English non-league football than Barry Town’s Jenner Park. Home to the
South Wales club since their election to the Southern League in 1913, precious little had been done
to update the facilities in the intervening years.
At the Barry
Road end of
the ground,
atop a discoloured
slab of concrete banking, stood a
tumbledown
set of buildings seemingly on the
verge
of
imminent
collapse.
The most
prominent of
these was
the rusting
hulk of a
stand under
whose flaking roof an
assortment
of
100
chairs were
laid
out.
Next to the
stand was
an ageing
dressing
room block, also deteriorating fast
The top picture (by Bob Lilliman) was taken in 1980
and with the faded remains of an
and shows the dilapidated buildings at the Barry
advertisement just about legible on
Road end. The lower picture shows the same view
its tattered roof.
today (by Vince Taylor).
Groundtastic
page 35
Issue 23