Gigg Lane

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Gigg Lane is an all-seater football stadium in Bury, Greater Manchester, England. Historically within Lancashire, it was built for Bury F.C. In 1885, and has been their home ever since.
Gigg Lane’s current capacity is 11,840. The South Stand is the largest stand and it was renamed the “Les Hart Stand” in the summer of 2010. The stand contains a pattern of blue and white seats that spell out “SHAKERS”. After the Taylor Report forced all Football League clubs to switch to all-seater stadiums, Gigg Lane began converting all four sides of the ground in 1993, with the Cemetery End being the final terraced section to be demolished in 1999. The Manchester Road End was home to the club’s electronic scoreboard (obtained from Leicester City’s Filbert Street ground after it closed in 2002) until 2011. A new scoreboard was placed in the south-east corner of the ground a few months later.
The stadium has been used for many sports other than football, such as Rugby league, cricket, baseball and lacrosse. It has also been used by football clubs other than Bury: Manchester United and Bolton Wanderers have hosted reserve-team matches at the ground. A couple of teams have “switched” their home games to Gigg Lane, including Preston N.E. For a League Cup tie in 1994. Non-league sides Rossendale United and Radcliffe Borough moved home F.A. Cup ties to Gigg Lane against Bolton (in 1971) and York City respectively. In 1996, the stadium was used as the filming location for the TV film based on the Hillsborough disaster of 1989, where 96 Liverpool F.C. Fans died as a result of a crush on the stadium’s terraces.
Hillsborough Stadium was seen as an unsuitable location for the film, partly to avoid causing further distress to survivors and bereaved families, and partly because the appearance of Gigg Lane was more akin to the 1989 Hillsborough than the actual stadium was seven years after the tragedy due to redevelopment.

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