Spenborough / Cleckheaten Concrete.

Behind Spenborough baths. Spenborough is in the middle of the Leeds / Huddersfield / Wakefield Triangle, about 5 minutes outside Dewsbury.

Nothing special, but nothing stupid either. The basic stuff is done right, and it's smooth concrete. The mini is linked to the other stuff by a transitioned hip BTW.

looks nice, kind of like an expanded Stithians - bendcrete yes?

That's pretty basic. Would be a good blue print for a 'local' area skatepark in the strategy my local council are employing, but not big enough for a 'District' area skatepark.

Personally tho, would it not be a good idea to say, put more flat banks or ledges at the far end and more ledges at the side where the playing field is? Or something like that. A) to give more grind ledges and B) to stop boards flying off the skating surface?

Behind Spenborough baths. Spenborough is in the middle of the Leeds / Huddersfield / Wakefield Triangle, about 5 minutes outside Dewsbury.

Nothing special, but nothing stupid either. The basic stuff is done right, and it's smooth concrete. The mini is linked to the other stuff by a transitioned hip BTW.

Wow, hmmm, not very good is it?? concrete, yes, good no.

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Behind Spenborough baths. Spenborough is in the middle of the Leeds / Huddersfield / Wakefield Triangle, about 5 minutes outside Dewsbury.

Nothing special, but nothing stupid either. The basic stuff is done right, and it's smooth concrete. The mini is linked to the other stuff by a transitioned hip BTW.

Wow, hmmm, not very good is it?? concrete, yes, good no.

This is more or less what they've just built near me, it's standard and unimaginitive but at least it's finished well and skateable and likely to remain so given that it's concrete. There is a danger though that Bendcrete could get too big and we'll end up seeing far too many of these cookie cutter things everywhere.

True, it all looks well put together, just a little boring i guess. As you say tho at least it will be there for many years to come !

I'll take that over nothing.

If it was round my way it'd be the best one for 30 miles!
(It looks OK anyhow)

Behind Spenborough baths. Spenborough is in the middle of the Leeds / Huddersfield / Wakefield Triangle, about 5 minutes outside Dewsbury.

Nothing special, but nothing stupid either. The basic stuff is done right, and it's smooth concrete. The mini is linked to the other stuff by a transitioned hip BTW.

Wow, hmmm, not very good is it?? concrete, yes, good no.

This is more or less what they've just built near me, it's standard and unimaginitive but at least it's finished well and skateable and likely to remain so given that it's concrete. There is a danger though that Bendcrete could get too big and we'll end up seeing far too many of these cookie cutter things everywhere.

Yeah that's what I was implying. I'd take a £100k Bendcrete park over a £500k GBH/Huna/Rhino/<insert any other fuckpile of a contractor here>. Of course I'd prefer something better but it's hard to catch these things as they appear quite quickly without much notice*. It's worth a trip if you're in the area - I can see some good Summer session up there this year. I'll be trying to prevent the same generic park appearing in Newsome (another district of Huddersfield) soon.

Bendcrete are already fairly big - this one is the 6th in a 30 mile radius.

*case in point - there's a shitty little plastic park in Skelmanthorpe (yet another district of Huddersfield), which is getting a £20k makeover. I only heard about this by chance after flicking through the local rag. You'd think those putting the money forward would make an effort to get in touch with the skaters (it's pretty easy, there's a skate shop smack bang in the town centre, there's the main park 1/2 mile outside the town centre), but that's way too quick and easy for the council.

Yeah that's what I was implying. I'd take a £100k Bendcrete park over a £500k GBH/Huna/Rhino/<insert any other fuckpile of a contractor here>. Of course I'd prefer something better but it's hard to catch these things as they appear quite quickly without much notice*. It's worth a trip if you're in the area - I can see some good Summer session up there this year. I'll be trying to prevent the same generic park appearing in Newsome (another district of Huddersfield) soon.


Are you saying that cost £100 grand ! ! !

I bloody well hope not !

Are you saying that cost £100 grand ! ! ! I bloody well hope not !

EDIT: Okay, I was way way WAAAY off. The cost of the park was £131,000.

Pre edit stuff follows.

Probably not that much, but not far off. Pre-fabricated concrete ramps (and pre-fab stuff in general) is pretty expensive. The 5' high, 15' wide Bendcrete mini ramp at Greenhead cost £25k, 5 years ago.

Here's yet another Huddersfield park (Lepton this time). I didn't throw this one up before as I know that no one on here would be interested. My memory is a bit hazy but I think it cost approx £20k, which goes to show how little that gets you:

I may drop in and have a skate at Spenborough.I am usually in the Dewsbury area every 4-6 weeks.

I used to work with someone who was on the consultation panel thing for this park he,s a bit of an ollie hopping stair freak type. He and the rest just got pushed into agreeing, thats why they put kids on the panels instead of real adults who will stick to their guns Untill me and a mate had a word he wasnt even insisting on a mini ramp section. I have a little park virtually the same as this near me and to be Honest its ok for a quick session on a summers evening just not worth travelling for. Bencrete are way better than Rhino and the other racking manufacturers pretending to be skatepark builders at least its rideable.

Can't get photo??

How far is that from 'Works'?

Can't get photo??

How far is that from 'Works'?

Sorry, I seem to have rm'd the pick, can't find it. It's not far from t'Works, 12 miles according to multimap (LS10 1NT to WF15 6LW)

I used to live in Heckmondwike and me and my mate Paul used to go swimming there (spenborough swimming baths) all the time when we were kids...

Then he got given a banana board and we stopped swimming and started skating...

Ah the memories..

What is swimming any way!