New Where Is This Ground

The tour - which I only knew about on Sunday evening - continues:

Enfield Town. That's the place, James, more pictures in due course.

And here is another. I was told last week that the local townsfolk are all Derby County fans but I know for a fact that there is at least one resident who follows Torquay United, so there.

Ironically, the ground is owned by the local district council, and yet I had to take these pictures through the fence because, this afternoon, it was all locked up:











Once upon a time the local team played here, and there was a speedway track as well. Only 2 or 3 years ago there were [plans to rebuild, but now....

You beat me to it!!! ---great to see the pictures. As for the Town itself its almost a half and half split between Forest and Derby with a few Notts County fans thrown in as well

There is an explanation. I told my boss recently that I prefer to do appeals in Nottingham rather then Derby so he now keeps giving me cases where the claimants live in Long Eaton. Today I was visiting Draycott as well so a quick look at the map told me I could use my new phone to take pictures of three football grounds. It would have been four if Long Eaton Stadium hadn't disappeared. It still exists on Googlemaps. Grr.

Any road, more to the point, LEG, what are you doing around there? It's a long way from the English Riviera after all!

Now a question: why is Long Eaton station so far away from Station Road? If the station used to be where the level crossing is then why is there another one in Sawley? If the town wasn't big enough for two stations then why not keep the one nearest the town centre?

Poor relations Graham Street Prims' ground has this frankly ridiculous title...



...while Borrowash Victoria's bit of land, as Barton's magnifying glass will have revealed, has an even sillier name: the Watkinson Construction Bowl. This is the front entrance...



...and this is the way out. Beware of the hound.



This sign shows the way to Grange Park:



Long Eaton Gull will be able to tell us what EIBC stands for. I expect their presence makes it pretty much impossible, on match day, to get in here to park.




And now, Barton, put that magnifier away. No more cheating from now on, lad!

Said freight only line goes via Toton Yard, which was one of the biggest and busiest marshalling yards in Europe pre-Beeching, but is now just largely waste ground aside from the depot that remains

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toton_TMD

It was covered extensively during the last episode of the Channel 4 series Classic Trains, narrated by John Peel - one of the best TV series on trains ever, in my book:

Any thoughts about this one?