Post by Budleigh on Aug 17, 2010 12:23:22 GMT
A Ground quiz with a twist….
I’ll do this in two parts so as not to frazzle the brain. Part Two, the next ten grounds, I'll put on in the next few days.
Part One
The rules I applied to the pictures are as follows:
All had to be grounds that are no longer used.
There had to be some remnant, however small or vague, of the fact that the area was a football ground. A concreted over and built-on site, ie Ayresome Park or Highfield Road with nothing left, didn’t count.
I had to have visited them and taken the picture.
I haven’t included Scottish grounds, or those from abroad.
Some are very easy, some need thinking about and a few are difficult, not because the grounds are unknown but that the last remaining clue to the ground being used for football may be quite obscure.
Of these grounds, four were used by teams which currently play non-league football and six now in the league, although they weren’t necessarily thus when playing at each location!
1.. Looking across the pitch to the overgrown bank of former terracing behind the goal.
2.. The ‘pitch’ from the famous sewer outlet from which members of the public watched the games for free before a large ‘fence’ was placed on the top of the bank seen in the foreground and which was at the back of the terracing behind the lower goal.
3.. The pitch of one the most famous three-sided ‘shared-with-cricket’ grounds. Houses are now built on the sight of the grandstand.
4.. One of the oldest stands in football history used to sit atop this terracing.
5.. The area on which the grandstand sat and a small part of the pitch. Football of a sort is still played on this ground.
6.. Abandoned a long time ago the remains of this stand still look out over the pitch area, now used for a different type of sport.
7.. Not too difficult, but although some of the pitch area is still grassed a fair bit is now under the stand on the left.
8.. One of the original multi-purpose stadiums, and a great loss, all that remains here is the white paint of the main stand’s ‘back wall’ and to the right, the clean area of wall where another was situated.
9.. Most will know this, but a magical bit of football history in the back garden of a terraced house.
10.. The supporters club and pay window with the entrance to the pitch and now demolished stand on the right.
11.. Does this count? Whatever, it is still a football ground remnant.
I’ll do this in two parts so as not to frazzle the brain. Part Two, the next ten grounds, I'll put on in the next few days.
Part One
The rules I applied to the pictures are as follows:
All had to be grounds that are no longer used.
There had to be some remnant, however small or vague, of the fact that the area was a football ground. A concreted over and built-on site, ie Ayresome Park or Highfield Road with nothing left, didn’t count.
I had to have visited them and taken the picture.
I haven’t included Scottish grounds, or those from abroad.
Some are very easy, some need thinking about and a few are difficult, not because the grounds are unknown but that the last remaining clue to the ground being used for football may be quite obscure.
Of these grounds, four were used by teams which currently play non-league football and six now in the league, although they weren’t necessarily thus when playing at each location!
1.. Looking across the pitch to the overgrown bank of former terracing behind the goal.
2.. The ‘pitch’ from the famous sewer outlet from which members of the public watched the games for free before a large ‘fence’ was placed on the top of the bank seen in the foreground and which was at the back of the terracing behind the lower goal.
3.. The pitch of one the most famous three-sided ‘shared-with-cricket’ grounds. Houses are now built on the sight of the grandstand.
4.. One of the oldest stands in football history used to sit atop this terracing.
5.. The area on which the grandstand sat and a small part of the pitch. Football of a sort is still played on this ground.
6.. Abandoned a long time ago the remains of this stand still look out over the pitch area, now used for a different type of sport.
7.. Not too difficult, but although some of the pitch area is still grassed a fair bit is now under the stand on the left.
8.. One of the original multi-purpose stadiums, and a great loss, all that remains here is the white paint of the main stand’s ‘back wall’ and to the right, the clean area of wall where another was situated.
9.. Most will know this, but a magical bit of football history in the back garden of a terraced house.
10.. The supporters club and pay window with the entrance to the pitch and now demolished stand on the right.
11.. Does this count? Whatever, it is still a football ground remnant.
1- The Mount (now Mountsfield Park) Catford home of Charlton Athletic for just one season in 1923-24.