From borrowed sports field to home
Billericay didn’t always have a proper football ground to call its own. For decades they played on pitches like Archer Hall, essentially open fields with ropes rather than turnstiles. In 1970 they moved into New Lodge, a former sports ground used by Outwood/Common‑area football that was enclosed with the help of loans from Basildon Council and Charrington Brewery, adding dressing rooms and a clubhouse.
Billericay Town are exactly the kind of club that fits the Spectata profile we like to follow, “there’s more here than you think” history piece – long non-league roots, cult 70s glory, and a wild modern boom‑and‑bust era.
