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R.IP Boothferry Park

04 April 2011

The 2nd April 2011 signalled the end of Boothferry Park with the destruction of the remaining three of six floodlights. This once great ground with a top class football pitch is now nothing more then a pile of rubble and twisted metal.

Since the final game in December 2002 against Darlington, Boothferry Park has been largely forgotten about and highly neglected and quickly fell into a state of disrepair.

The East, West and South stands have long been demolited with the the North stand following when Kwic Save supermarket went out of business, leaving only the six huge floodlights as a lasting reminder of what once was.

The lights were first used in 1964 against Barnsley which resulted in an excellent 7-0 victory for the Tigers and were once the envy of the football league.

With the three west standing floodlights taken down the previous day word got around that the east standing lights were to be taken down at 3pm Saturday 2nd April, such an apt time and made even better as City had a 1pm kickoff, meaning it was possible to see City at the K.C stadium, then walk up Anlaby Road to visit Boothferry Park for the final time.

We arrived around 3pm expecting the lights to be coming down pretty soon, we had a wait of around an hour before any sign of work, the middle floodlight went first and within an hour the final floodlight had been toppled, marking the end of Boothferry Park and clearing the way for a housing development or supermarket.

So, I'll leave you with the footage recorded by RIDINGBITTER from the forum , on the third video you can just make out the old Kempton steps, wouldn't it be nice if the future developers of this land could keep just a small section of the steps? Anyway, enjoy the footage.

The Kempton floodlight goes first.

Next goes the South-East floodlight. (This one went quickly!!)

And finally the North-East floodlight.