Here's an aerial view of what has happened to some of the grounds you may have visited on away dayshttp://www.premierfootballbooks.co.uk/aerial_lost_stadiums.html
I worked up in Middlesbrough for a couple of months back in 1988 and ended up renting a flat on Ayresome Street which the old ground was on. What a frickin dump it was, the ground and the town.
Re: The Darlington one looks more like a ground than when I visited it! Does Millmoor still exist? It appears to be there on Google Earth (images from 2008)
Re: The Darlington one looks more like a ground than when I visited it! Yep, still there, new main stand unfinished.
Re: The Darlington one looks more like a ground than when I visited it! Wonder what the Booth family plan to do with it? Get the Rugby teams in perhaps. Wakefield Wildcats?
There's kind of an eeiree feel to seeing grounds like Maine Road just appearing to have been obliterated in the middle of streets that were clearly built around it. I've always thought that in hindsight its such a waste of a perfectly good stand and millions of pounds worth of money when teams like Leicester move from Filbert Street. Ok two sides were shocking but other two fairly new yet inside ten years they are off to a new place. I wonder if they sold a lot of the materials? While Arsenal could get lots for the land in a prime London location, Leicester surely not as fortunate!
Bradford Park Avenue I went to a Yorkshire Sunday League game back in the 80s and you could walk out the back of the cricket stand into the football ground. The pitch was overgrown and the floodlight towers had been cut down, but otherwise it was still a football ground.
Re: Bradford Park Avenue If you look at Darlington's old ground 'feethams'', you used have to access the football ground via the cricket ground. It appears that one of the stands remains.
