Strangest Football Grounds in UK

[Gremlin]

Seats have been regularly moved around and quite often from League to non-league grounds

And between league grounds. The main stand at Roots Hall used to have seats that were previously used at Old Trafford. Perhaps it still has.

 

[Chris Powell's mate]

The stand at Accrington's old Peel Park came from the Aldershot military ground.
The dunderheads there didn't realise sight lines didn't match up, and therefore if you were at the back you saw nothing of the pitch.
It cost a 1961 fortune, so it was no surprise when Stanley couldn't afford the gas bill and went out of business a year later.
The moral is if you're club's in the hands of clueless idiots, there's every chance it'll go t... up.
Lucky then, we have Da Do, Ron, Ron to save us, eh?

 

[* ORM *]

Huddersfields old ground must have been great when they were succesful. Less so with 5000 or leas in.

I've played at Lutons ground about 25 years back, actually longer back than that. The facilities for the players were exceptionally fantastic in complete contrast to the rest. No mention of the Den? Or did I miss it?

 

[Parold]

I find the flats at Brisbane Road bizarre - you could see into people's living rooms!

 

[snapper1]

Probably more interesting than watching Orient ! :-)

 

[Crowstone Crevette]

Wasn't the main stand at the old Deene Park originally a resturant at the Empire Exhibition at Wembley?

 

[dan_mays]

Scarborough - McCain Stadium i think it was called
Rushden & Diamonds - Lovely little ground
Grimsby
Darlington - Reynolds arean the cost of their downfall

Leicester - Filbert Street, great atmosphere there
Aldershot - cheap and nasty floodlights

Maidenhead - oldest ground in the world to date, and what a dive that is

Fulham - one of the only grounds I've been to with a neutrals section

 

[westie]

Gresty Road Crewe - Mainline railway terminal. So from the back of the open away end, you could watch the trains go by if the game was boring.
Notable ramshackles were: Barrow, Workington, Newport & Halifax.

 

[Mick]

Wasn't the main stand at the old Deene Park originally a resturant at the Empire Exhibition at Wembley?

A new one for me. Deene Park ?

A stately home with occasional pop concerts, I've heard of; but not a football ground I've been to - I don't think.

 

[Thorpe Groyney]

Oakside, the home of Barkingside of the ESL and Redbridge in R1N, has a bit of character to it. The main stand on one side is so close to the Central Line that the stand shakes every time a tube goes by. Opposite there is a covered enclosure, so covered it is simply a long tunnel down one side of the pitch. A cracking burger bar and programme shop too.

Cricklefield, where both Ilford and Waltham Forest play in R1N, is also a favourite of mine, though some might disagree. Surrounded by an athletics track, with a big sand pit and steeplechase water jump behind one of the goals. Together with trees all down one side of the pitch, it almost feels as if you're at a Danish Regional League game. Especially the way the locals speak.

 

[Crowstone Crevette]

Sorry Mick you are of course correct. For Deene Park please read Dean Court (AFC Bournemouth)!:blush:

But the rest was correct the frame of the old main standdid come from the 1923 British Empire Exhibition and was a restaurant.

50% success rate:winking:

 

[Mick]

Sorry Mick you are of course correct. For Deene Park please read Dean Court (AFC Bournemouth)!:blush:

But the rest was correct the frame of the old main standdid come from the 1923 British Empire Exhibition and was a restaurant.

50% success rate:winking:

Make that 25%. The British Empire Exhibition was 1924-25.

First Wembley Cup Final was 1923 though, and it was originally called the British Empire Exhibition Stadium.

 

[Mick]

Sorry Mick you are of course correct. For Deene Park please read Dean Court (AFC Bournemouth)!:blush:

Ah Dean Court, a three-sided ground where the fourth side DID get built.

Mind you, they didn't leave their main stand 'til last .... what were they thinking of ?

 

[Shrimper2thecore]

Barnet - 7 stands - the place is bizarre.

 

[Shrimper2thecore]

Notts County - absolutey huge considering their average gate, looks very strange.