[Football] Stadiums that no longer exist where you have seen the Albion play

[Icy Gull]

Goldstone apart, which one was your favourite?

I hadn’t realised just how many clubs have built new grounds over the years and there are plenty of old ones I never went to.

The Goldstone
The Dell
Filbert Street
Plough Lane
White Hart Lane
Highbury - should be my favourite because of THAT game but it’s not
The Den, Cold Blow Lane (the most apt address in the football league for me!)
The Vetch Field
The Victoria Ground
Elm Park

My favourite was the Baseball Ground. No rational explanation as I’ve only been there once and we lost in a Cup game on a midweek evening. Maybe it was because it was the first time I had mushy peas with my fish and chips. The atmosphere that night was something special too. Proper old fashioned stadium right in the middle of a residential area.

 

[Milano]

Selhurst Park....whoops sorry I’m getting ahead of myself.....

 

[Cesar Chavez]

Maine Road was my favorite.

 

[Frankworthington]

Eastville Stadium,Bristol.

 

[bhafc99]

Been to 5 of the list you have there.


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[Knotty]

Upton Park
White Hart Lane
The Dell
Eastville
Saltergate
Filbert Street
Baseball Ground
Highbury
Ninian Park
Millmoor

 

[Guinness Boy]

Good thread. Having done lots of aways in the 80s and 90s the ones I can remember are:

Upton Park
Boothferry Park
Filbert St
Millmoor
Victoria Ground
Sealand Road (Chester)
Roker Park
Gay Meadow
Cold Blow Lane
Feethams (Darlo)

Some dodgy as **** places on that list but terracing and cheap. No membership points in those days.

Worst was Roker Park standing on an open terrace while a storm blew in off the North Sea and we lost to an offside goal. Thank God I was lubricated

Best was Darlo. 500 odd packed on to a covered terrace in the Mickey Adams part one days, atmosphere, a win and cheap, cheap booze

Millmoor was decent too for some truly grotty pubs, a lap round the away end when Codner got our winner and a starring role by [MENTION=29192]Brighton Lines[/MENTION]

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[Hampster Gull]

Nene Park (Rushden & Diamonds) also

 

[Curious Orange]

Goldstone
Wembley
Fellows Park
Victoria Ground
Boleyn Ground
White Hart Lane

From that lot probably Wembley sticks in the mind, mainly for the noise that hit me as we entered the top tier of the stadium... And the overwhelming disappointment of the day.

 

[indy3050]

Goldstone
Filbert Street
White Hart Lane
Layer Road
Upton Park
Highfield Road

Sure I’ve missed one or two and there are others I’ve been to for a game but not seen the Albion play

 

[Icy Gull]

Nene Park (Rushden & Diamonds) also

One I forgot as was Old Wembley, in fact I didn’t even know it was called Nene Park!

 

[mikeyjh]

Apart from the Goldstone - Baseball Ground and Boothferry Park for me - 2 Grounds that formed a huge part of my childhood and teenage years (BF is a hull fan) and I feel really sad thinking about them. Maybe it's the romantic in me but I don't believe it's possible to love a new stadium in the same way. Football was a different experience then, the idea that eating of drinking at the ground was quite alien, 'comfort' was a fabric conditioner, atmosphere was an organic, fantastic thing.

Obv the OP is entirely correct that the BBG was the best - Derby were largely rubbish during my teenage years but it didn't really matter, it was the day out.... Strangely enough, I vividly remember us thumping Brighton in '86, less so being thumped by you in '84

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

Upton Park
Highbury
White Hart Lane
Boothery Park (Hull)
The Den (Cold Blow Lane)
Maine Road
Ninian Park
Eastville (Bristol Rovers)
BAseball Ground
Plough Lane
The Goldstone

Maybe others



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[darkwolf666]

Goldstone Ground
Withdean
Wembley
White Hart Lane
Saltergate
Ninian Park
Highbury
Feethams
Filbert Street
Boothery Park
Manor Ground
Baseball Ground
The Den
Eastville Stadium

That lot has made me feel old...

 

[fosters headband]

One closer to home, Town Mead.

 

[Icy Gull]

Goldstone Ground
Withdean
Wembley
White Hart Lane
Saltergate
Ninian Park
Highbury
Feethams
Filbert Street
Boothery Park
Manor Ground
Baseball Ground
The Den
Eastville Stadium

That lot has made me feel old...

Manor Ground, yet another one I’d forgotten. Pretty sure we won there with a Gotsmanov goal but it was a long long time ago!

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

One closer to home, Town Mead.

Played and watched there.


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[Super Steve Earle]

My first game away from the Goldstone was Oxford Utd at Headington. It was the sixties and I was young. Most vivid memory is Ron Atkinson playing centre half for them.

 

[Worried Man Blues]

Has the Scarborough one been mentioned can't remember the name other than Cains Chips?

 

[zefarelly]

Does Stamford Bridge Count. . . . I don't think there's anything left of the ground I went to in 1988.