The Old Recreation Ground was a football stadium located in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, England, and home to Port Vale F.C.

The dressing rooms were bare, there were no toilet facilities throughout the entire ground, and racing pigeons were kept by The Sentinel and some supporters to relay the scoreline to different parts of the city.

[3] Port Vale were forced to sell the land to the city council, under the chairmanship of Tom W.Flint after suffering a financial crisis; they received £13,500.

[4] This came after the club's president Major William Huntbach died in 1943, leaving £3,000 of loans to be repaid to his estate.

[5] In 1950, the city council decided to construct a shopping centre on the site, forcing the club to move to their current home of Vale Park.