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 

[RevidgeBlue]

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 yesterday at 11:56 by RevidgeBlue

[StubbsUK]

Can't you just pop round and have a look @RevidgeBlue 😀

[RevidgeBlue]

27 minutes ago, StubbsUK said:

Can't you just pop round and have a look @RevidgeBlue 😀

🤔

[RevidgeBlue]

33 minutes ago, StubbsUK said:

Can't you just pop round and have a look @RevidgeBlue 😀

I wish  the ground was still there - I'd only live about 250 yards away!

No point me popping round there's no sign of anything whatsoever as far as Im aware - bit weird when you think about it.

Of course if brfcs want to invest in some high tech x ray equipment to see what's beneath the tarmac and cobbles? 🙂

 

Edited 18 hours ago by RevidgeBlue

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

What a shame there are no known match photographs of Rovers playing there.You would have also thought the England v Scotland game at the venue would have attracted the national media of the peroid.

http://englandfootballonline.com/TeamStadia/England/EngLeamington.html

http://englandfootballonline.com/Seas1872-00/1886-87/M0031Sco1887.html#Team

Edited 17 hours ago by SIMON GARNERS 194

[StubbsUK]

10 hours ago, RevidgeBlue said:

I wish  the ground was still there - I'd only live about 250 yards away!

No point me popping round there's no sign of anything whatsoever as far as Im aware - bit weird when you think about it.

Of course if brfcs want to invest in some high tech x ray equipment to see what's beneath the tarmac and cobbles? 🙂

 

There's a legend that part of Sacred Heart is what was the old pavilion, but I really doubt it, it would have been wooden for a start more than likely.

Maybe send Time Team round?

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

The school was built on the site of were the pitch would have been after Rovers left for Ewood...pretty sure of that