1883-1886: Saint Augustines Recreational Ground and the birth of Harchester Saint

1886-1895: Dial Fields, Harchester Saint to United, and turning professional 1895-1908: Palmerston Road, big in the League and records made

The latter half of the nineteenth century saw a new sport springing up and down towns and cities across Britain. The game of football, and groups of men employed in different industries were forming teams based in their local districts to play in their leisure time. The turn of Midlands town Harchester came in 1883, when a group of doctors from the local infirmary based on the outskirts of the town at the corner of Parker Street and Maple Street, formed a team calling themselves Harchester Saint. The matches, which gradually became a weekly appointment for the town's children and adults to watch the team in their original white home strip, were played on a local sports pitch Saint Augustines Recreational Ground, thus becoming the club's official first home ground. During these first few years, Harchester Saint's support on home days continued to grow, and with the agreement of the local council, a new ground similar to Saint Augustines was found in the heart of Harchester. This was Dial Fields, where the club would begin it's second chapter in 1886...