Post by Budleigh on Aug 18, 2010 14:07:15 GMT
Part Two of ‘A Ground quiz with a twist….’
Same rules as before:
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.
In this second part these grounds were used by seven teams who currently play league football and three non-league at present although they weren’t necessarily thus when playing at each place!
Same rules as before:
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.
In this second part these grounds were used by seven teams who currently play league football and three non-league at present although they weren’t necessarily thus when playing at each place!
1.. The half-completed grandstand of this now abandoned ground.
2.. Houses being built on the old pitch with the mound on the right showing the position of the old stand. This only just counts as a month later all traces of the ground had gone save for a small part of the pitch at the far end.
3.. The main stand stood in front of the viaduct and the banking visible in the middle of the picture, behind the green bench, was at the top end behind the goal and is now landscaped.
4.. Taken soon after this ground was left for pastures new so not much depreciation. Apologies though, I was using a low-res camera, although hi-tec at the time!
5.. The inside of the outer wall and entrance to a once mighty enclosure. Although abandoned many years ago a part of this ground lives on elsewhere.
6.. Fairly easy to lost-ground affeciandos. The overgrown side terraces and end banking.
7.. Unfortunately I arrived at this ground just after the wonderful stand had been demolished and which would’ve been visible through the gates beyond the car parking area.
8.. All that’s left of this ground save for the overgrown pitch and a few humps.
9.. The tarmac overlays the pitch area. Looking down the touchline with the bank to the right being where the grandstand stood and the grassy area in the foreground being the end terracing.
10. I can’t find my photograph of this so have resorted to one from elsewhere which is almost identical. This shows the remains of the grandstand at this ground now being used as a shelter for cars, vans etc on an industrial estate.
2.. Houses being built on the old pitch with the mound on the right showing the position of the old stand. This only just counts as a month later all traces of the ground had gone save for a small part of the pitch at the far end.
3.. The main stand stood in front of the viaduct and the banking visible in the middle of the picture, behind the green bench, was at the top end behind the goal and is now landscaped.
4.. Taken soon after this ground was left for pastures new so not much depreciation. Apologies though, I was using a low-res camera, although hi-tec at the time!
5.. The inside of the outer wall and entrance to a once mighty enclosure. Although abandoned many years ago a part of this ground lives on elsewhere.
6.. Fairly easy to lost-ground affeciandos. The overgrown side terraces and end banking.
7.. Unfortunately I arrived at this ground just after the wonderful stand had been demolished and which would’ve been visible through the gates beyond the car parking area.
8.. All that’s left of this ground save for the overgrown pitch and a few humps.
9.. The tarmac overlays the pitch area. Looking down the touchline with the bank to the right being where the grandstand stood and the grassy area in the foreground being the end terracing.
10. I can’t find my photograph of this so have resorted to one from elsewhere which is almost identical. This shows the remains of the grandstand at this ground now being used as a shelter for cars, vans etc on an industrial estate.
No9 - Bank Street, Clayton in Manchester.