BARNET Football Club and their supporters
association plan to make Underhill the finest amateur
football ground In North London. This new, strongly built
hut, which will be completed by the beginning of the
football season is the first big step in their programme.
It has been provided by the supporters at a cost of about
£1,800, and has realised the long-standing need for a
recreation and dining-room for the players.
The
provision of the hut has been made possible by the
success of the supporters football pool. It has been
built under an agreement with Barnet Council, who have
undertaken to drain the ground if the football club will
have the old and dilapidated tea hut at the bottom of the
ground replaced by a new one.
SUPPORTERS
SOON BUSY
As soon as
the hut was erected the supporters moved in and were soon
busy painting and papering to make the building
attractive inside. Outside, as our photograph shows, more
supporters were busy tidying up the surrounds and
preparing the ground ready for concreting.
On the left
of the building is the kitchen, which is also the tea bar
at which spectators can obtain refreshments during
matches. The actual dining and recreation room is not for
general use by spectators, but any supporters wishing to
inspect the building may do so before the beginning of
the season.
FOR
TRAINING NIGHTS
The new hut
will also be used extensively on training nights when
club supporters will provide all the players with a warm
meal. The club and the supporters' association also
believe that the playing fields in the surrounding areas
still contain as many good players as they have produced
in the past, and they want to encourage promising young
players to join the town club.
Recreational
facilitates at the hut will include table tennis. The
supporters will be pleased to hear from anyone who can
provide a table. Cr. H.E. Hewes, chairman of the football
club, is to provide dart equipment.
NEXT
OPERATION
After they
have completed the hut, the next operation - a joint
effort between the club and supporters - is to lay new
concrete terracing behind the bottom goal.
The club
and the Supporters were meeting this week to map out a
programme for further improvements. As money becomes
available these improvements will be carried out to
provide better amenities for players and spectators.
Although it
was not possible to make an early enough start to carry
out the drainage work on the pitch, the work on the
drainage around the pitch is almost completed. This in
itself should bring about a considerable improvement.
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