Where are Rovers old grounds?

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Also fascinating, see Key: O memory stone of Nancy Hasler, amongst her best clients were footballers.

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/5864730.memory-nancy-set-stone/

 

 

 

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

Good find Mick.

Its quite obvious that the Pitch must have been 'levelled off' in relation to the surrounding geographic incline of the area.

All trace of that must have been destroyed when Housing was built upon the Pitch after moving to Ewood.

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11 hours ago, SIMON GARNERS 194 said:

Good find Mick.

Its quite obvious that the Pitch must have been 'levelled off' in relation to the surrounding geographic incline of the area.

All trace of that must have been destroyed when Housing was built upon the Pitch after moving to Ewood.

One end of the pitch was the start of an incline so ever so slightly went up at one goal mouth 

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17 hours ago, Roving Mick said:

This sale of lots is from 1882.  Rovers moved to Leamington Street the year before.  It's looking like the ground was behind the Leamington pub on Cheltenham St.

 

Rovers ground is specified as "M" on the plan and the large "MNO" plot which is unspecified stretches up past St Silas's School. The K plot behind Cheltenham St. is specified as Fox Delph. (Old Fox and Grapes Pub?)

It would seem from the Key the Church was already there (N) so In conjunction with the drawing that was also shown on here it looks to me like we have a fairly precise location for the ground.

To me it seems as though  the ground started somewhere around  Leamington Rd Baptist Church at one end stretching up in the direction of Sacred Heart Primary School at the other end with the side boundaries between New Bank Rd and Leamington Rd on one side and between what is now Lynwood Rd and Wellfield Rd on the other side further over in the direction of East Lancs Cricket Club.

(Think someone else mentioned Wellfield Rd was formerly named Rover St earlier in the thread.)

Edited 5 hours ago by RevidgeBlue