Mo Mowlam Memorial Park
North Riding League
November 18, 2017
Ground No 201
REDCAR has taken a bit of a kicking over the last few years.
The closure of the steelworks, which produced the steel used to build Sydney Harbour Bridge, directly cost over 2,000 people their jobs and led to more than 800 picking up their P45s.
Teesside is a proud area and Redcar an unpretentious and welcoming seaside town which deserves better.
A reminder of the town's steelmaking past can be seen from the home of Redcar Town, the heavy machinery and buildings from the disused plant peering eerily into the ground from across the trunk road.
Teessiders are a hardly lot, though. And while the steelworks across the road have been abandoned and closed, Redcar Town are a club on the up.
When I lived on Teesside two years earlier, Mo Mowlam Park was little more than another pitch in some playing fields,
Now it's fenced off, a turnstile block is in place and there's a large pavilion running along one side of the ground, containing a spacious café serving hot drinks, Town scarves and bits and bobs and a gteat selection of hot food,
Town play in the new North Riding League - the successor to the Teesside League - at the very bottom of the pyramid but I'd be staggered not to see this go-ahead club in the Northern League in a few years.
There's a good-sized car park, and enough room on either side of the pitch to put up a stand or two. Then once some hard standing is put down, hey presto, you've got an NL ground.
A nice touch too is that the ground is named after Redcar's popular and inspirational former MP Mo Mowlam. If this club does climb further up the pyramid into the NL, they'll hopefully have her name spelt correctly on the sign outside by then...
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