WORK is continuing on the erection of new floodlights at Holker Street, with foundations being dug for the pylons.

Contractors arrived at Barrow AFC's home on Monday to start a month-long project to put up new stanchions and take down the decaying old structures.

While that work is ongoing, further changes are taking place elsewhere in the ground, with the old men's urinals behind the Ray Wilkie Terrace all but demolished.

Plans to move the wall to the side of the Brian Arrowsmith Stand forward to be level with the stand itself and to expand the disabled area have been delayed, however, with work not starting until the floodlights construction is completed in that area.

AFC finance and operations manager Andrew Casson said: “As the ground looks now, the walls are set two or three metres behind the main stand. We will take down the old wall and build the new wall in line with the main stand dug-out wall, and resituate the disabled area closer to the corner on both the home and away side, so they can have a better view.

“Hopefully, the disabled area will be a bit bigger. Obviously, the seating situation will be improved as well, so they are not just stuck at the back.”

He added: “That work on the wall is in flux because of the delays to the floodlights. Because we didn't know how far back they were going to build the pylons and foundations, we wanted to wait until that was finished ans then work on the walls from there.

“It's something that is pretty easy to do, even when the season starts, because instead of one of the breeze-block walls we have now, it would be a more modern steel mesh one, which can have the advertising boards attached easily.

“It's still in the plan, it has just been pushed back to coincide with the floodlights work being done.”

The steward's cabin at Holker Street has also been demolished, with temporary portable structures to be put in place for next season for that and the first aid area.

Other work is being carried out too, and Casson added: “There are other little things. Along the top of the Ray Wilkie wall, where there is the glass shard, all that has to come off. The gutter along the Ray Wilkie Stand, there is no pipe there any more, and that is going to be replaced and drained and will improve the drainage on that side. Inside the Crossbar and corporate area, we will redecorate, improve the lighting of some of those rooms.”