Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2009 18:35:35 GMT
There would be more from ancient history but, in recent times, I can think of two grounds which were discarded before their clubs reached the Football League. Both were town centre grounds (with considerable slopes) replaced at the same time - 1990 - by new developments in the wilds. One was Huish, Yeovil. The other was....
Loakes Park, Wycombe Wanderers
Wycombe played at Loakes Park from 1895. Record crowd 15,850 v St Albans, Amateur Cup, 1950. I can't think that Torquay United ever played there:
Loakes Park is in the bottom left-hand corner of this map (the present ground is about six inches to the left of the edge of your screen):
There's some great stuff on the Chairboys website on the run to the 1957 Amateur Cup final when Sid Cann - the Torquinian who played in a FA Cup final - was their coach. Sid can be seen on the left in this picture:
The quarter final replay against Ilford drew a crowd of 15,500:
The semi-final - against Corinthian Casuals - was played at Highbury in front of 28,000. Wycombe then lost at Wembley to Bishop Auckland (att 90,000). Here's a reminder of those old-style Wembley programmes which remained unchanged for years:
Pictures (and programme) from apps.buckscc.gov.uk and www.chairboys.ndirect.co.uk
Loakes Park, Wycombe Wanderers
Wycombe played at Loakes Park from 1895. Record crowd 15,850 v St Albans, Amateur Cup, 1950. I can't think that Torquay United ever played there:
Loakes Park is in the bottom left-hand corner of this map (the present ground is about six inches to the left of the edge of your screen):
There's some great stuff on the Chairboys website on the run to the 1957 Amateur Cup final when Sid Cann - the Torquinian who played in a FA Cup final - was their coach. Sid can be seen on the left in this picture:
The quarter final replay against Ilford drew a crowd of 15,500:
The semi-final - against Corinthian Casuals - was played at Highbury in front of 28,000. Wycombe then lost at Wembley to Bishop Auckland (att 90,000). Here's a reminder of those old-style Wembley programmes which remained unchanged for years:
Pictures (and programme) from apps.buckscc.gov.uk and www.chairboys.ndirect.co.uk
