The rugby club pitches
The Broad Street Old Boys' Rugby Club was founded in 1929 by former and current pupils of the Broad Street School in Broad Street, , Coventry. The club's history goes back even further to when Broad Street School was opened in 1911. It was many years later that the club decided drop the "old boys'" title and merge the two words to become one and known as Broadstreet Rugby Club.It was after winning the Coventry F.C. Shield in 1929 the old boys' club was formed with the help of the school sports master 'Pop' H.T Suddens. With seven former schoolboy internationals, it was a formidable team. In fact, the school went on to have twenty-two schoolboy England players and three senior England players, , Ernie Robinson and who went on to captain England in 1967.When the 'Old Boys' was formed, a farmer's field at Bedlam Lane was the home ground and this was used until after the . After the war, the club rented grounds in various parts of , eventually using the as its base until the 1950s. A site for a new ground was purchased in Henley Road from a Colonel Bushill in the early 1950s. Raising the money to purchase the ground and to build the clubhouse was an enormous task, but it was a very proud day for all involved at the time, when Cliff Harrison, President of the R.F.U., opened the club in 1955.Over the next few years the club extended, but it became obvious that the facilities at Henley Road were no longer large enough to cope with the number of teams that we regularly playing, and in 1970 the club entered into an agreement with Alf Youell of Youell Investments, to sell only the pitches at Henley Road, and to move to a new ground and clubhouse at Brandon Road.The new ground was opened in 1973 by Bob Weighhill, Secretary of the , and it was named the , in honour of , and , who was also the club's President at the time. The club retained the Henley Road clubhouse still run it as a thriving social club with over three hundred members.Once again, the club out grew the facilities at the Brandon Road ground, and have now moved to the other side of the Coventry Eastern Bypass, to the new . Alf Youell was also heavily involved in this move, along with , the purchasers of our previous ground. The new ground was opened by the great winning captain , captain of , The , and . The new clubhouse has fantastic facilities,a 250-seater stand, car parking, five senior pitches, (two floodlit), mini and junior pitches, and forty-six acres of ground, the club are intending to stay on Rugby Road for a long time to come!Broadstreet Rugby Football club regard themselves as one of the top fifty clubs in . Our commitment to the game of is total, and the ground move is just further evidence of the ambition that the club has. On the playing side, The club regularly field five senior sides and one colts team during the season, and now have strength in depth throughout all of our sides. At under-age level, the club run one of the most successful Mini and Junior sections in the country, with over 200 boys and girls of all ages being coached by a willing band of qualified coaches. We also send coaches into several of our local schools and universities to help them with coaching and also the preparation of representative teams.