attendance of over 10,000 occurred in 1968, when 16,650 was the sell-out attendance for Barrow's FA Cup match against Leicester City. Floodlights were erected around the ground in 1963, but the next major changes to occur were in 1972. With Barrow relegated from the Football League Third Division into the Fourth Division, the club was struggling financially and the decision was made to create a speedway track around the edge of the football pitch, resurrecting a sport that had briefly been hosted at Holker Street in 1930. Construction of that facility involved the demolition of the 'Steelworks End' of the ground and the removal of the front rows of the other terraces. Matches had to be played with grass on top of boards which covered the speedway track, resulting in complaints from other teams. Problems such as that were influential in the decision of the Football League clubs' to vote against Barrow when the team had to seek re-election to the league following a bottom-four finish in the Fourth Division at the end of the 1971–1972 season, and Barrow were demoted to the Northern Premier League. As it was, the speedway team which operated from Holker Street, the "Barrow Bombers", did so only for two years from 1972 till 1974, when the track was removed due to its unpopularity with other football clubs. Non-league era Following demotion and the speedway era, Holker Street had become rather dilapidated. The remaining stands were demolished for health and safety concerns, though a cover was retained for the "Popular Side", and terracing was pushed closer to the pitch following the removal of the speedway track. The CrossBar leisure club and bar was subsequently built at the former Steelworks End, as part of a job creation scheme. That remains a dominant feature of the ground and is now the match day hospitality suite, as well as a conference centre. The other major development since the 1970s has been the construction of an all seater "Main Stand" on the Wilkie Road side of the ground. That was built during the period when the club was owned by Stephen Vaughan, and was opened in 1998. Shortly after that, however, Holker Street became a key part of Barrow's financial problems. During the writing of gangster Curtis Warren's autobiography, Warren claimed to a journalist that he owned Holker Street. That claim led to a police investigation into Vaughan's activities,