BRENTFORD'S CREEPY ABANDONED STADIUM 😱 Griffin Park
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- Опубліковано 16 січ 2024
- In 2020 Brentford Football Club left behind their old ground GRIFFIN PARK and moved into the Brentford Community Stadium (currently known as the Gtech for sponsorship purposes)... Griffin Park was demolished for the most part, but very little work has been carried out recently. It has been left somewhat abandoned and has had break ins according to neighbours on a regular basis 😬 The current state of what was once a famous football stadium (because of having a pub on all 4 corners of the ground) is a bit creepy... 👻 Whether planning permission has yet to be granted for whatever development is about to follow, I don't know... But what I do know from visiting the sites of these abandoned football grounds, is it leaves a big hole in the community. Set amongst the terraced housing, the locals had some good (and bad of course) times at Griffin Park. I understand the need for a new stadium and fortunately the Gtech Community Stadium is only a walk up the road... ⚽️🏝️
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Little old Brentford prat
I’m 67 now and I used to live 5 minutes away from the ground, they used to let you in for nothing at half time, those were the days
Wet Spam moved miles away, Brentford are just down the road. Massive difference
Griffin Park was basically finished as a stadium, it was way too small and impossible to refurbish. The move to GTEC was overdue if anything. The alternative would have been ground sharing with QPR or Fulham
I was the geezer’s face you masked out! 😂 not a bad video, there’s some of my b roll from the copa 90 video. It was a club shop. The owners are sitting on the site and want to build a higher density of housing or flats but are waiting for better economic conditions. We’re lucky to have moved to a new stadium close by which is great.
Don’t tell Copa90 🤣 cracking b roll… I’d have given you a shout and bought you a couple pints to get you on camera again 🍻
doesn't look like a blur to me!
A slight improvement…😂
So sad, my earliest memories are my dad taking me down to griffin park, going to the corner shop to get some sweets before he had a pint in the griffin. So sad to see it a wasteland. Although still looks better empty with scattered parks of metal than with new build flats.
that's true! Hopefully they can keep some of it as a grass area with maybe a plaque on the centre spot
The red and stipe building was a club shop, yes.
2 of the 4 pubs will go when they build the new housing complex on it.
So sad to see my home in that state, one of my favourite places on earth was GP.
Miss the place dearly but for the club to grow we had to move.
sad times, but you're right mate - Brentford are doing fantastically well and the Gtech is only gonna benefit the club going forward 😊
Used to love going to Griffin Park to watch Brentford play. Great video mate 👍
Glad you enjoyed it mate! The new Gtech stadium tour will be up on the channel later on today 👍🏽
Used to enjoy my visits to Brentford FC as an away fan. I had a ticket for the West Brom game that I believe was going to be the last game there under the floodlights before COVID intervened. A quirky away end with standing in the lower section and seating above. I’ve yet to visit the new stadium but it’s on my list.
It's fantastic how far teams like Brentford, Brighton & Fulham over the last 20 years or so - I remember watching them all at Edgar Street playing Hereford as a kid
West Brom fan here , did 68 away grounds with Albion and Griffin Park was one of them in the early 90s . Never had a drink in those pubs and if my memory is correct we had a beer in a pub called something like the Guardsman but the chat will probably confirm this . Lovely little ground , with a good atmosphere and friendly fans . Fortunately most of my away matches were in the old third and second division so I got to see many of these characterful old grounds that no longer exist . These new generic, soulless grounds just don’t have the history or atmosphere of the old ones , glad the Hawthorns maintained its location although the atmosphere can never be replicated from the old standing grounds that used to create a cacophony of sound. Another thing politicians ruined .
fair play mate, love hearing stories about the old terraces
The Royal Horseguardsman is still going strong 😎👍
Absolutely devastated to lose Griffin Park, the heart and soul of Brentford fc. How would it profit a man if he gained the world but lost his soul
Still got a couple of shirts I bought in that shop. It was also the filming location for Green Street.
Came across your channel for the spurs v burnley fa cup match & now cant stop watching all your videos lol....great channel you got mate!
Haha thanks mate, just a bloke having fun wandering around grounds 😁👍🏾🍻
It's always such a shame seeing old stadiums being destroyed. As a Brighton fan, as much as I love our new stadium, I do still miss the old Goldstone Ground, even if it's been nearly 25 years since it got torn down. There was a certain.....rustic charm to it (that's a polite way of saying it was an absolute shithole lol.....but hey, it was _our_ shithole and it felt like home!). Always get a pang of regret and sadness whenever I drive past and see a retail park in that location now.
Also, you should think about investing in a drone mate! That way, instead of poking your camera through the gate, you can just fly your drone over it and have a bit of a cheeky nose around without actually physically trespassing lol (not sure if there would be any legal ramifications to doing that though lol). Not that there's probably much left to see now, but still....would be cool to get a closer look inside the site.
hey mate, thanks for commenting - I was meant to have done a Brighton tour Sunday but ended up watching United vs Spurs... I was at Edgar Street in 97 and always hated Brighton for years after that as I only saw things from a Hereford perspective and I was like 8 years old 😅 In reality it was 2 clubs fighting for their lives and ended in Hereford United going bankrupt... I now really admire Brighton and have a fondness for the club... my old man keeps saying "that could have been us" but nobody is gonna invest in Hereford 🙈
Not surprised you miss the old ground, given it was in civilisation with a few pubs a cafes to go to. The Amex is awful, it’s nowhere near Brighton and there is nothing there
Love videos of these old stadia. These sites never lose an aura of the fans who attended. You can feel/sense it. Great video.
Used to come along here when the R's played away, many a time, so weird seeing how it is now, another classic old stadium gone, I know time moves forward but I feel modern stadiums lack the charm of these old grounds, was always a good old day out with all the pubs around, I miss Griffin Park!
Well said mate 😊🍻
Bradley Walsh signed a professional contract with Brentford at 18, but couldn't make it into the first team. Played a lot for the reserves, and went out on loan to Barnet and some smaller clubs. Fractured his ankle at 22 and ended his career. Involved with Soccer Aid as a player and then coach too.
Top bloke Bradley... now hosting Gladiators with his lad... been around the block old Bradders
Love these videos showing all those old grounds, so much character. Well done 👍
Glad you like them!
The flats and car park you wandered in to is where a 13,000 covered home end was. The main entrance was in Braemar avenue
The Royal Oak end, named after the pub which is now called the Brook
I hate modern stadium they’re soulless
If done right, they can be epic like tottenhams but there’s lots of bad examples - I’m gutted I never got to the dell in Southampton
Brentford’s and Tottenham’s ground are good
Brentford’s ain’t
I have been a safety steward for seven years and work at various venues and brentford griffin park and now the gtech are my favourite places to work
9:32 "This has always been a residential parking area".... no, that used to be part of the massive partly glass roofed home end. Brentford were so short of money in the 1980's they sold off most of the home terrace for construction of those flats, resulting in a narrow double-decker end with terracing below and seating above.
that's interesting mate, thanks for sharing that... puts more perspective on the journey Brentford have been through to get where they are 😊
@@RysFootyParadise The ground extended all the way to the pavement before those flats were built, as did the turnstiles (had to queue along the pavement to get in). Incidentally the club retained the freehold earning a little bit more money from the leaseholders. 😄
The double-decker end was nicknamed "the wendy house"
Iv'e just discovered your channel recently. Like what i'm seeing. keep up the great work.
Thank you mate, lots more exploring to follow 😊
Love the smaller London grounds and how they’re hemmed in by houses.
Regarding the house prices, I was once there early and googled the houses opposite the away turn styles out of interest. They were on for £475k before covid - for a terraced property.
The yeovil old ground is now a big tescos great video
I'm a lifelong Brentford fan - weekend visits to Griffin Park were a big part of my childhood. I actually moved to Spain in recent years, so I've not been to the new stadium yet. This was a heartbreaking video to watch, particularly seeing that one of the pubs didn't make it. Those pubs were a big part of the legend of our club. You'd often have to walk the whole loop to see which one wasn't busiest - or which one the away fans hadn't taken over!
Thank you so much for posting this video - great memories, even thought seeing the site like this is really gutting. Have a subscribe.
To be hones the Princess Royal was the dodgiest of the 4 pubs and it's no surprise it didn't make it.
Managed to get down to GP in its last season and visited the four pubs pre-match. Was a bit pissed 😂 Great vid!
Haha good man 🍻🍻🍻🍻
Hearing Celebration by Kool and the gang at the start of the video was a very nice touch, Brentford fans know what im talking about
Griffin Park was a decent away day 🍒
Looking forward to Bournemouth Thursday 😉👍🏾
My daughter was a matchday mascot at Griffin Park when she was just 10 days old back in 2014. Was the famous 'Jota in the last minute' match against Fulham. Great memories. Wish I still had the footage from that match, as it all got destroyed in a flood.
The kids loved waiting after the match to see and chat to all the players before they made their way home (a lot of them catching the bus from down the road). The kids' favourite spot to watch the matches was to stand at the base of one of the floodlights. They had the perfect view from there. It was always worth the 2 hour drive from Wiltshire.
So sad to see😭
Ahh Wiltshire, not far from me 😊 (Cheltenham)
Iv been this ground away day league 1 notts county away day n we lost 3-1 but miss the old Brentford ground its was an amazing day back then over 12 years ago n very nice ground the old place
Excellent. Thank You so much.
You are welcome! Enjoyable to film :)
Good video I remember my only game at griffin park was an fa cup game Basingstoke vs Brentford
Would like to see you do Highbury and emirates
hopefully Highbury in a couple weeks!
Griffin Park has always been my favourite away ground, been many times over the last 20 years and was in the away end for a 5-0 defeat in what turned out to be the final ever game with fans at the stadium 🤣💙🦉⚽️
Love your podcasts on the old stadiums.I started following Spurs in 78 in the 2nd div.I suppose I’m looking at from rosé tinted glasses because of my youth.I was always in the Shelf.Coys.
Thank you mate, glad you’re enjoying them & sharing your stories
My first game at WHL was in September 1958, Spurs 2 Wolves 1. Not lived in the UK since 1975, so videos like this one is so welcome.
That’s the pub from Green Street
Oh christ course it is! Can't believe I bloody forgot that 😅
heartbreaking to see these old football grounds being demolished had the honour of going there around 89 for a preseaonn friendly just aint the same football of today all a bygone era now prefer these look backs at the traditonal football grounds your club hereford was the one ground i really wanted to go to sadly will not happen now all the best steve
cheers Steve! Was at Edgar Street on Saturday... the council have got the ground but 1 end is unsafe (Black Friars End) - More old football ground tours to come! 😊
Visited Griffin park as an away fan as a Swindon fan many times. My favourite ground and it's sorely missed!
Always loved Swindon after the show “This Country” 🤩
As a away fan to Griffin park....it was my favourite away ground to attend a proper ground 😢
Love these grounds, reminds me of Readings Elm Park. Can’t believe I never watched a game at Griffin Park. As a Wealdstone fan, I know what it’s like to lose a ground. We still haven’t replaced ours. At least the Gtech is nearby, seems quite a nice ground and the club seems well run and are having a bit of success.
You want some? I loved going to lower mead as a kid, even the market on a Thursday with mum I'd always go and look at the ground
@@AB-kx4nc ah that market 😀
As a Brentford fan always interesting to see people talk about the club like this. Just a few bits, the Princess Royal pub was actually owned by the club and they shut it down when they shut down the shop. The block of flats you were at at 10:00 used to be part of the old stand but was sold off for housing like 40/50 years ago. The big gate bit you looked in at the start of the video used to be the main biggest entranceway and set of turnstiles. You also missed an interesting bit of the old turnstiles opposite the Griffin pub. It was the entrance to the old part of the stadium which was made up of wooden benches. I. Guessing they weee condemned 30 years ago or something because that turnstile and part of the stadium was never open in my lifetime. Also the metal posts at 10:24 were the structures for the stadium development that were put in place to make one of the stands bigger but they never got planning permission so they just had these pointless metal bars hanging there. I feel we really messed up with that stadium selling bits of it off and never really developing it, the Gtech is ok but I don’t think is big enough. I think if we had maximised the potential of Griffin Park we could have got more capacity out of that. The new stadium is really a bit of I guess sports washing as cover to build a load of new flats around the new and at the old stadium site.
Top man, cheers for the info mate 😊👍🏾
As I recall it, building work on the old site is due to begin once the new blocks of flats around the new stadium is completed and sold off. Probably a financing thing.
that makes sense 😊 some good money has been made off those new flats I've heard so it's nice the new developments have been well funded
Gday from Australia ,I was born in clifden rd and in the early 70s they had a car park there ,i would take money from drivers as a saturday arvo job , my grandmother owned 38 clifden which had a long drive and my mum took money in the 1950s to park your cycle in their drive .To see Elton John was a normal thing with Watford , he used to choose who got pulled off at half time !
Apart from the pubs on the four corners there was probably about six more in very easy crawling distance away.
Do Brentford fans still pop into the pubs near Griffin Park on Matchday mate?
Most pubs have locals who go before and after the games
All the pubs in Brentford do well on matchdays.
It’s a very easy walk to the Gtech, from Griffin Park.
@@RysFootyParadise Yes, it is still popular for match days. It's probably a 15 minute walk from there to the new ground.
Liked this video - saw ITFC a couple of times before Griffin Park shut
thank you mate, looking forward to heading to Ipswich soon... at your arch enemy's place Saturday.... 🟡🟢
I never enjoyed visiting this ground we always lost here.
Who do you follow mate?
Who do you follow mate?
Leeds United
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Went here with Wrexham when I was 9 in 1993/94 it was my first away game to London we lost 2-1 but glad I went
I was there for Brentford 9 Wrexham 0 in the 60's. :)
If you go on to Google Maps ,Griffin Park is still standing and is still intact on Street View….amazing!
That was a Brentford old shop store the building has red and white colour it was Brentford shop
Yeah I looked it up after 😊 glad it’s still standing… hopefully they can keep it for something Brentford FC related 🤞🏽
It used to be the function room of the Princess Royal pub.
All about money as usual I’d take the Boleyn back any day ⚒️
Morning lamby,IAM a Burnley fan and west ham away was go to game, fantastic atmosphere,top class fans just a great day out good luck dude👍⚽❤️
@@DavidNolan-fi8gi the new ground the atmosphere gets lost , Upton Park was a proper ground like Burnley and palace but can’t change anything now . Good luck rest of season mate 🙏🏼
this was my favourite championship away ground as a teenager last time i went was 2018 when city got promoted
sad to see it just stood empty and abandoned
I support you my mate, this morning all world so happy, MU have new CEO ex Barcelona & MCity. I hope mu can be top club 1-2season
Awright lad, I would pronounce it “Bray-mar” (Braemar Road) good video 👍 btw Braemar is a lovely village in Aberdeenshire, near Balmoral Castle
thanks for that mate, my pronunciations are all over the place haha
@@RysFootyParadise no worries mate😂 you want to see some of the other place spellings up here, they’re totally mental 🤣🤣🤣 btw I just subbed your channel 👍
Absolutely devastating to see what happened to Griffin Park. How it was allowed to happen is shocking. The government should step in and try to rebuild the stadium and move the club back there, they should never have left. What a scandal that the club was moved away, all Brentford fans are gutted. I'm in tears watching this, can't stop crying. Rishi Sunak should personally put a stop to what's happening at Griffin Park and get that stadium rebuilt ASAP. Up the Bees.
It's like the government don't understand the impact a football club has on the local community... it's part of British, especially English, culture
I assumed this person was taking the michael and you responded. I wouldn't mind but you went to the new stadium which is literally LESS than a mile from the old ground. So Brentford FC remain very much in the heart of the old community. So how does the club improve facilities for fans and at the end the get more fans in to watch the games?. As you saw the old ground was surrounded by houses so could not be expanded and things like the toilets etc were disgusting. So I think your reminiscing for a bygone ground you never visted and was well past its ell by date is slightly strange.
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You silly person 😂🤪🤣😂🤣🤪
Was one of my favourite away days still yet to visit the new stadium
The first football ground to be built in the 20th century was indeed West Brom - it was completed in three months (1900).
I've done a little wander around The Hawthorns for the channel last month, but was doubting myself with that fact haha thanks for watching 😊
A classic football ground sadly let down by being the second most boring football-related pub quiz question
What ground had 4 pubs……….. 👀
M i’m surprised that they haven’t made that stadium into apartment blocks yetv
I believe that's the plan mate, but some planning issues a neighbour told me...
@@RysFootyParadise crazy that they will tear down old stadiums because if they really wanted to, they could’ve used the stadium for the women’s team and also under 21s but especially for the women’s teams because they are pulling in a lot of revenue and when the women’s World Cup was in the uk I don’t Security at Brighton football club and it was jampacked to the maximum capacity.
When London Broncos played at Griffin Park we drank in the Griffin pub prior to games.
I know about an abandoned rugby staduim I know you are a football youtuber but Newlands is one of the oldest staduims in the world wich is currently abandoned
Do a hull city one
I remember doing a video on Griffin Park, in the end it was more trouble than what it was worth. I got copyright striked for using a picture, yes a picture of the ground in my video which went for about 20 seconds, then I had to put in a counter claim which I won but then the guy who claims he took the picture tried to take me to the small claims court.
Ahh that’s a shame mate, I’ll check out your channel 😊
This is when you need to meet up with a local to get us the real history
They also filmed green street in the griffin.
true!
Modern stadiums are soulless. I used to love Brentford away at Griffin Park! I still miss the old Den, and we left that in 1993/4!
I've only just noticed the "new" part was dropped from the (new) Den - when did that officially happen mate?
You have clearly never been to the Gtech it is built to be very close to the pitch and the tmosphere for an all seater stadium is the equal of Griffin Park with 6 thousand more fans. Stadiums will take time to get that atmosphere but the Gtech has definitely been built to get that homely feel in the future it is not a featureless bowl.
Saw Stan Bowles play a few games for The Bees at the end of his career and at 32/3/4 of age could still cut it.
fair play mate... they don't make them like they used to
Miss Griffin Park dearly. Used to sit in the New Road stand with my Grandad 😢
sad to see it just left like that... Hopefully unlike the Boleyn Ground, Brentford FC at least have a plaque or memorial garden to pay homage to a once thriving ground
I went to Griffin park many, many times. Always at the away end. And not once did the lights in the away end toilets work!🙄
haha common with most lower league grounds at the time I bet
For a ground that once held over 38k supporters it was time for it to go
Is it possible you can do White hart line which obviously u know the old Tottenham stadium
I'll be doing the new Tottenham Hotspur Stadium next week 👍🏽 should be on the channel Thursday
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Such a shame
I wonder what its like now To enter an abandon football club 😳😳😳😳
Shame you didn't meet Pooley and O'Malley.
Hope to see you at meadow lane one day notts county my team
Come to the vetch field Swansea
Isn't that the pub from Green Street?
I believe so 😁👍🏾🍻
went there for an FA Cup game just before it got knocked down 😂 all came out the ground 5 mints before the end
haha great to experience it right at the death
You should go visit The Dell ( old saints ground )
Thursday 😉
@@RysFootyParadise Cheers matey
Interesting.....
Glad to see you don't only watch Crimewatch 😅😅
Went there a few times with Wimbledon
Looking to do a video on the dons soon! (Not MK obviously 😅)
Looking to do a video on the dons soon! (Not MK obviously 😅)
I was the last persons to buy somthing in the old club shop
Hitler wasn’t a football fan and surprisingly he especially hated Bayern Munich for some reason.
Another reason to hate that evil man
Nonsense. Brentford have just moved on. Would people prefer they were just a league one club ? Or league two where I watched them at Griffin Park?
100# watched a game there
Nice hair trim you've got there. Although I would rather have seen more of the stadium than your face.
Back in the 50s/60s I sold programmes at the Ealing Road end where they stacked the visiting fans. No cover there at all! I got the job because my uncle manned the players gate on match days.
Before that, my first memory is being in the Brook Road end with my father who lifted me up and I was passed down to the front over heads only to find the terracing went below the pitch level and all I could see were boots and shin pads!
🤣 cheeky, my mrs cut that with a spoon
Whether it’s my club with Maine road Man City or griffin park Brentford, modern stadiums are just shit
Do people get paid to use the word obvious or it's derivatives when nothing at all is obvious? Do they know the meaning of the word?
Always one isn’t there 😁
Let’s stop this before it continues #SavePlainmoor
Nostalgia factor fantastic for Brentford.
As a travelling supporter it was terrible.
Not been to the new stadium but got to be a huge improvement ! Hasn’t it ?
I’ve done a tour on the new one mate if you fancied a closer look 😊
Did my ears deceive me or did he say Bowling Ground👀 And not Boleyn Ground
I’m terrible at pronouncing things 😅🙈
I’m terrible at pronouncing things 😅🙈
Yay! More overpriced, tiny apartments that not many people will be able to afford. I viewed a 1 bed with a buddy at the new Brentford ground apartments...almost 2 grand for a 1 bed with no storage room.
madness how any working class survive in London... I enjoy visiting but would never live there even if I could afford to... give me fields and greenery any day 😁
2 grand?! I'll have 10! 😁
You are chatting rubbish…. Nonsense, do your research b4 shooting a poor fake fan vid pal……Braemar Rd was the main entrance, Brook Rd was away fans stand…..very poor effort, I’ve stopped watching b4 the end… 0/10
It’s clearly a video of someone who’s never been here before and exploring it for the first time 🤣👍🏾 plonker
Little old Brentford
A bus stop in Hounslow!
The shop behind The Princess Royal use to be a hall which was hired out for wedding receptions and judo lessons. Then it was made into Brentford merchandise shop. Griffin park caught fire at one stage. When i was younger we were able to get in free at half time. But im glad the house opposite Princess Royal had that horrendous motif painted over. Main turnstiles ŵas in Braemar Road either side of gate part you were looking to through to gtounds.