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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2009 21:08:13 GMT
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Post by papalazarou on Jul 7, 2009 21:16:09 GMT
Is number 4 the oldest stand in England at Great Yarmouth, number 9 the two dundees? Finally I think number 10 is blackpool. As for the others im stupped at the moment
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Post by capitalgull on Jul 7, 2009 21:46:33 GMT
Complete guess, based only on the Cameron's Ales advert, but is 3 one of the old stands at Victoria Park, Hartlepool?
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Post by ohtobeatplainmoor on Jul 7, 2009 22:53:24 GMT
Is number7 Springfield Park (Wigan) 8 Burnden Park (Bolton) 9 is possibly Eastville (Bristol Rovers)? 10 is definately Bloomfield Road (Blackpool).
Edit - of course number 9 isn't Bristol Rovers - didn't notice the other ground in the background!
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Post by merse on Jul 8, 2009 3:26:43 GMT
1: Bradford Park Avenue 2: Not a clue! 3: Bishop Auckland 4: Great Yarmouth 5: Wolverton Town 6: Third Lanark ? 7: Accrington Stanley (Peel Park) 8: Heart of Midlothian 9: Dundee United (top) Dundee (bottom) 10: Blackpool
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2009 5:58:18 GMT
1: Bradford Park Avenue 2: Not a clue! 3: Bishop Auckland 4: Great Yarmouth 5: Wolverton Town 6: Third Lanark ? 7: Accrington Stanley (Peel Park) 8: Heart of Midlothian 9: Dundee United (top) Dundee (bottom) 10: Blackpool Number two was visited by Torquay United on a number of occasions.... I'll need to post the next batch when Merse isn't around or else it'll be over before it almost starts...well done, that man.
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Post by merse on Jul 8, 2009 16:09:51 GMT
I've visited the remains of Park Avenue and Cathkin Park (Third Lanark) out of curiosity and seen the Wolverton Ground from the train window. It's the old stand on THAT ground that is the oldest surviving structure on any football ground in the UK as far as I understand and the huge structure behind is the former engine works of the London & North Western Railway which is a listed building and the last I heard was being developed as apartments and condominiums behind the original frontage incorporating a Tesco ~ rather like the famed Hoover Building on Western Avenue Greenford. The ground was called Wolverton Park and lost it's club when they folded in 1992 after struggling on with the awful re-branding of MK Wolves and them Milton Keynes City moved in but we all know how the city eventually established professional football there in any meaningful way. The ground once included a banked cycling track (just as the old Newton Abbot Rec did) which accounts for the "graduated" incline of the old stand. Wolverton was a new town in itself being built in the nineteenth century to house the workers brought into the area to work in the new railway works and there was once a combined railway/tram that ran out to Newport Pagnell called the "Newport Nobby" ! Those sheds eventually became the largest carriage works in the country. That magnificent old stand at Great Yarmouth is also worth a visit as it is preserved in pretty much original condition and again I have walked in to take a look at it. The aeriel picture of Bloomfield Road is interesting in that it shows how the main facilities were all behind the goal in the old days which undoubtedly influenced Blackpool born Mike Bateson to carry out the same silly idea at Plainmoor and anyone who has seen us play there in the past couple of decades would recognise the old railway sidings as the vast car park of today and the former magnificent Spion Kop that even boasted a roof on it before it literally split asunder through structural collapse under the weight of it! I've never been to Bishop Auckland but it's only a stone's throw from Darlington for anyone keen enough this year however I believe this ground has now disappeared and it was in fact a three sided football venue rather like the old County Ground at Northampton where the cricket outfield precluded terracing on the far side from the main stand and Park Avenue was also a dual venue but with the far more satisfactory arrangement of a two sided main stand serving cricket on one side and football on the other just like nearby Headingley Carnegie which doubles as a cricket and rugby venue. Bradford's Park Avenue was one of the old "Archibald Leitch" constructions and featured the famed "Dolls House" corner pavilion rather like Airdrionians and Fulham. I'm still stumped by number 2 though Barty, how about Redheugh Park, Gateshead?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2009 19:43:34 GMT
I'm still stumped by number 2 though Barty, how about Redheugh Park, Gateshead?That's strange because I nearly put Redheugh Park into this batch. Try the opposite side of the country from Gateshead! I've walked across the old grounds of Third Lanark and Accrington, watched cricket at Bradford PA and looked through the gates of the old ground at Bishops Auckland. I have, however, managed to see a game at Great Yarmouth on a chilly evening marvelling at that wonderful old stand.
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Post by ealinggull on Jul 14, 2009 22:31:00 GMT
Is 2 Barrow's Holker Street?
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Post by merse on Jul 15, 2009 3:58:23 GMT
Is 2 Barrow's Holker Street? Barty's already revealed it was Borough Park, Alex...................although that must be on another thread (quick, call the "Thread Police") that's Borough Park, Workington by the way; not Totnes! ;D
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