Training Ground pre Hurthorth

Tryasize10

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Just wondering about where the Lads trained back in the day before Hurworth was built? Not sure why I don't know this as I was obsessed back then ha ha.

I remember seeing the squad preseason training on the beach at Redcar once with my old man.

I lived in Darlo and my school used to let their team train on the school training fields and I remember watching our very own Bernie Slav strutting around when he played for them.
 
Hutton Road was the place to be. No one stopped stopped you going in and a great time to meet the players. Autograph hunters dream.

I remember being there one day and Big Jack was collared by reporters from Evenjng Gazette and Northern Echo about something that had happened in a previous game.

His response was basically he picked the xxxxxx team and not them.

Later Tollesby Road but I never went there
 
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I used to go to Hutton Rd every week in the season.
You were close to the players and could get loads of autographs.
It was like a fairground under Raich Carter with players all over the place chatting with fans and friends a d having a bit of a jog.
Changed when Stan Anderson came and was much more professional.
Under Jack Charlton it was more intense . He would talk to the players all the time and take them to one side for one on one talks.
I loved the place.
Tollesby Rd was just a field with a lot of divots and dog dirt on . No wonder Rav wasn't happy playing there.
 
Didn't we also used to train at Kirklevington Prison among other places ? Look at some of the comments Rav made about the training facilities pre-Hurworth and he suggests local parks (with added dog poo) and prisons ?
 
We trained at Hutton Road until 1986 when it was sold by the club.

We had a brief spell under Colin Todd and Lennie Lawrence training at Maiden Castle, which is where Hartlepool later made their training base.

We then had spells training at Tollesby Road, Kirklevington Prison, Ayresome Park etc before moving to Rockliffe in 1998
 
I remember them training at Tollesby Road in the 90's as it backed onto my cousins street.

Went there one day in my full kit and got my shirt signed by the whole squad which at the time included Juninho, Rav, Emerson etc

Came home and my Mam washed it because it had a 'dirty collar' and she didn't think the pen would come out :unsure:

Felt like the end of the world to a 7/8 year old me...
 
They used to train on Hall Drive in the early 80s where Marton FC now play. Myself and a few mates would regularly go and watch them.
 
Watched us play Cloughie's Hartlepool in a behind close doors game at Hutton Rd late '66 when Anderson was manager
 
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