Alan Smith, secretary and trustee of the Padiham Sports Club, takes us through the £200,000 refurbishment scheme carried out at the facility to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Padiham Arbories Memorial Sports Ground
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00:00 Welcome to the Arbys Mall Sportsground in Paddington. This year is the 75th anniversary
00:07 of this sportsground being opened back in 1949. The sports club are the actual trustees
00:13 for the site and have been over the years and we decided to celebrate the 75th anniversary
00:18 by making some improvements to the ground and putting on a festival at the end of it
00:21 to show people how lucky they were to have a facility like this and what we've done in
00:26 the last 18 months to improve what we had at the time. The sportsground is a living
00:32 memorial for the people that died during the second world war. It was opened in 1949 and
00:37 ever since then the football club and the cricket club have been based up here and they
00:41 play the home fixtures up here. So it's been very good for the sports club to be able to
00:45 take part in making sure that this facility is not only something that's been used for
00:50 the last 75 years but can be used again for the next 75 years. What we hope and hope is
00:55 that the people of Paddington appreciate what we've got and they support the activities
00:58 that take place at the sports ground. The sports club was formed in 1947. It was formed
01:04 to bring sport back to the town after the second world war and that's what it's done
01:08 ever since. It's been the trustees that's looked after the site and supported both football
01:12 and cricket and different community activities that take place on this facility.