BRENTFORD'S CREEPY ABANDONED STADIUM 😱 Griffin Park

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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[TheChappers]

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.

[LukeCoulterr]

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.

[redrobredrob]

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

[EastCoastSteam]

Still got a couple of shirts I bought in that shop. It was also the filming location for Green Street.

[Neil_G]

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!

[The_Legendary_Human]

Love videos of these old stadia. These sites never lose an aura of the fans who attended. You can feel/sense it. Great video.

[stephen]

Love these videos showing all those old grounds, so much character. Well done 👍

[TheBrentfordHive]

Used to love going to Griffin Park to watch Brentford play. Great video mate 👍

[ryanterry]

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.

[pauldurdin]

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

[DavidHalfordsLane]

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.

[pincermovement]

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 .

[BAMOF]

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😭

[richardwallace]

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

[unpoppablebubble]

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!

[xcf]

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.

[colindoherty]

I used to go when Chelsea were away.. Lots of Chelsea fans went there in the 70s

[dannycool]

Managed to get down to GP in its last season and visited the four pubs pre-match. Was a bit pissed 😂 Great vid!

[maureengould]

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

[darkbronze]

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.