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The Den
Ninian Park
Baseball Ground
Victoria Ground (Stoke)
Ayresome Park
Maine Rd
Filbert Street
White Hart Lane
Highbury
The Dell
Upton Park
Highfield Rd
Roker Park
Manor Ground (Oxford)
Eastville (Bristol Rovers)
Gay Meadow
Fellows Park (Walsall)
Plough Lane
Burnden Park
Layer Road
Northampton (may have been called County Ground)
Valley Parade (Bradford)
Millmoor

Not sure if dean Court (Bournemouth) is another ground?
 
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Mine are;

Roker Park
Highbury, Arsenal
Maine Road, Manchester City
Upton Park, West Ham
White Hart Lane, Spurs (think the fact the pitch has moved makes that a 'lost' ground.
Ninian Park, Cardiff City
Highfield Road, Coventry City
The Baseball Ground, Derby County
Belle Vue, Doncaster Rovers
Boothferry Park, Hull City
Filbert Street, Leicester City
Ayresome Park, Middlesbrough
The Den, Millwall
Elm Park, Reading
The Dell, Southampton
Plough Lane, Wimbledon
Millmoor, Rotherham
Feethams, Darlington
Old Wembley

In a few weeks or maybe at the start of next season I will be able to add, Bootham Crescent, York and Griffin Park, Brentford to that list.

I also have a few non league ones,

Belle Vue, Consett
Central Avenue, Billingham Synfonia
Church Road, Hayes
Southbury Road, Enfield (turned down a free ticket for a Liverpool v Everton charity shield match at Wembley to see Gatehsead play there)
Western Road, Southall
Kingsway, Bishop Auckland

And one in Scotland;

Meadowbank, Edinburgh City

There will be some others I have forgotten.
 
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Highbury
Maine Road
Burden Park
Highfield Road
Ayresome Park
Roker Park
Filbert Street
Victoria Ground
Abbey Stadium
Manor Ground
Baseball Ground
The Den
Upton Park
White Hart Lane
The Dell
Elm Park
Boothferry Park
Milmoor
Old Wembley
 
Cridge said:
The Den
Ninian Park
Baseball Ground
Victoria Ground (Stoke)
Ayresome Park
Maine Rd
Filbert Street
White Hart Lane
Highbury
The Dell
Upton Park
Highfield Rd
Roker Park
Manor Ground (Oxford)
Eastville (Bristol Rovers)
Gay Meadow
Fellows Park (Walsall)
Plough Lane
Burnden Park
Layer Road
Northampton (may have been called County Ground)
Valley Parade (Bradford)
Millmoor

Not sure if dean Court (Bournemouth) is another ground?
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I'll add Sealand Road & Saltergate to that list - Didn't realise they'd moved.
 
hertsmackem said:
Baseball ground
Leeds road
Gay Meadow
Maine Road
Manor Ground
Upton Park
Highbury
Filbert St
The Dell
The Den
Plough Lane
The Shay
Stockport can’t remember the name
Highfield Road
County Ground
Ayresome Park
Goldstone Ground
Bloomfield Road
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Stockport played at Edgeley Park & do Blackpool still not play at Bloomfield Road?
All the above plus
Feethams
Bootham Crescent
The Old Show Ground Scunthorpe
Boothferry Park
Belle Vue Donny Rovers old ground
Sealand Road Chester
Victoria Park Stoke
Springfield Park Wigan
Vetch Field
Ninian Park
Eastville Stadium/Bath both Bristol Rovers
Elm Park Reading
Saltergate Chesterfields old ground
Fellows Park Walsall
Milmoor Rotherham
National Hockey Stadium MK Dons
Burnden Park
Not sure if we are counting Spurs
 
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Maine Road - Man City
Filbert Street - Leicester
Highbury - Arsenal
White Hart Lane - Spurs
The Dell - Southampton
Goldstone Ground - Brighton
Upton Park - West Ham

Vetch Field - Swansea
Ninian Park - Cardiff
Baseball Ground - Derby
Elm Park - Reading
Leeds Road - Huddersf'ld
VIctoria Ground - Stoke
Ayersome Park - Boro
Springfield Park - Wigan
Boothferry Park - Hull.
The Den - Millwall

Roker Park - Sunland
Millmoor - Rotherham
Highfield Road - Coventry
Belle Vue - Doncaster
Eastville - Bristol Rovers
Gay Meadow - Shrews'by
Plough Lane - Wimb'don
Burnden Park - Bolton
Manor Ground - Oxford
Fellowes Park - Walsall

Layer Road - Colchester
County Ground -Northampton
Old Show Ground - Scunthorpe

Feethams - Darlo
Sealand Road - Chester
Saltergate - Chesterfield
Old Wembley

I've only included grounds which were demolished, and not included redeveloped grounds/or grounds which have stayed the same but changed their name.
 
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Maine Road - Man City
Filbert Street - Leicester
Highbury - Arsenal
White Hart Lane - Spurs
The Dell - Southampton
Goldstone Ground - Brighton
Upton Park - West Ham

Vetch Field - Swansea
Ninian Park - Cardiff
Baseball Ground - Derby
Elm Park - Reading
Leeds Road - Huddersf'ld
VIctoria Ground - Stoke
Ayersome Park - Boro
Springfield Park - Wigan
Boothferry Park - Hull.
The Den - Millwall

Roker Park - Sunland
Millmoor - Rotherham
Highfield Road - Coventry
Belle Vue - Doncaster
Eastville - Bristol Rovers
Gay Meadow - Shrews'by
Plough Lane - Wimb'don
Burnden Park - Bolton
Manor Ground - Oxford
Fellowes Park - Walsall

Layer Road - Colchester
County Ground -Northampton
Old Show Ground - Scunthorpe

Feethams - Darlo
Sealand Road - Chester
Saltergate - Chesterfield
Old Wembley

I've only included grounds which were demolished, and not included redeveloped grounds/or grounds which have stayed the same but changed their name.
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Maine Road
Filbert Street
White Hart Lane
Highbury
The Dell
Goldstone Ground
Upton Park

Vetch Field
The Den
Baseball Ground
Elm Park
Ninian Park
Boothferry Park
Victoria Ground

Highfield Road
Ricoh Arena (not demolished but now a rugby stadium- good
Manor Ground
Eastville
Gay Meadow
National Hockey Stadium
Plough Lane

Layer Road
County Ground (Northampton)
Fellows Park
Somerton Park (Newport County)

Non League
The Huish (Yeovil)
Saltergate (Chesterfield)
Underhill (Barnet)
Dolphin Stadium (Slough Town)
Wexham Park (Slough Town)
Feethams (Darlington)

Also Old Wembley.

Bootham Crescent (York) and Griffin Park (Brentford) to be added to the list when those teams finish playing there at the end of the season.

Probably another 10 non league ģrounds at lower levels than the Conference North/South including Ashington, Enfield, Aylesbury United amongst others.

@Horley Chorley, seems like we must have been to a lot of the same games!
 
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Saltergate
Somerton Park
Plough Lane
Roker Park
Love Street
Fellows Park
Baseball Ground
Millmoor
Springfield Park
Old Wembley
Ayresome Park
Upton Park
Underhill
The Mannor Ground
The Dell
Filbert Street
Victoria Ground
London Road (Maidstone United)
Layer Road
The Den
The Vetch Field
County Ground NTFC
Elm Park
Ninnian Park
Boothferry Road
Old White Heart Lane
Dean Court - before it was turned 45 degrees.
Highbury
Maine Road
The Goldstone Ground
Gay Meadow
 
During my away travels from 1974 to 1990 I visited 65 league grounds but I think most of them have gone, or are now non-league grounds. I didn’t even know Blackpool had moved until I saw people listing Bloomfield Road!
 
I went to Kingsmill Park for a Scotland v Iceland international (the home of Inverness Thistle) which felt very surreal.

Also Telford Street where Rangers fans who couldn't be bothered to go to Ibrox adopted Inverness Caley as their team. The Caley Inn is still there, by Muirtown Lock.

Caley probably needed that religious / political affiliation because the locals in Merkinch, South Kessock and Clachnaharry supported Clach.

It also explains Caley Thistle's relatively poor attendances. A large section of the then two old clubs supporters were against the merger and have never been to the amalgamated club. Their fanbase is almost entirely folk who never went to football when Inverness had 3 Highland League clubs.
 
Only the Manor Ground and Upton Park. Been to both of their replacements and they were both awful.
Griffin Park will be on the list in a few months :(
 
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I went to Kingsmill Park for a Scotland v Iceland international (the home of Inverness Thistle) which felt very surreal.

Also Telford Street where Rangers fans who couldn't be bothered to go to Ibrox adopted Inverness Caley as their team. The Caley Inn is still there, by Muirtown Lock.

Caley probably needed that religious / political affiliation because the locals in Merkinch, South Kessock and Clachnaharry supported Clach.

It also explains Caley Thistle's relatively poor attendances. A large section of the then two old clubs supporters were against the merger and have never been to the amalgamated club. Their fanbase is almost entirely folk who never went to football when Inverness had 3 Highland League clubs.
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Been once. Seemed to be a lot of white settlers there. Didn’t seem to be tourists as they all had scarves and seemed to know each other and locals. Twas v JRs team just before he came to us.
 
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During my away travels from 1974 to 1990 I visited 65 league grounds but I think most of them have gone, or are now non-league grounds. I didn’t even know Blackpool had moved until I saw people listing Bloomfield Road!
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26 out of 65 visited have changed, plus old Wembley of course. How depressing that all that heritage has gone.
 
Think that’s about all the ones I can remember visiting that are gone now:

Baseball Ground
Leeds Road
Maine Road
Manor Ground
Upton Park
Highbury
Filbert Street
Highfield Road
Ayresome Park
Burnden Park
Wembley
White Hart Lane
Fellows Park
Boothferry Park
Sealand Road
Feethams
Millmoor
 
thamesvalleyman said:
Maine Road
Filbert Street
White Hart Lane
Highbury
The Dell
Goldstone Ground
Upton Park

Vetch Field
The Den
Baseball Ground
Elm Park
Ninian Park
Boothferry Park
Victoria Ground

Highfield Road
Ricoh Arena (not demolished but now a rugby stadium- good
Manor Ground
Eastville
Gay Meadow
National Hockey Stadium
Plough Lane

Layer Road
County Ground (Northampton)
Fellows Park
Somerton Park (Newport County)

Non League
The Huish (Yeovil)
Saltergate (Chesterfield)
Underhill (Barnet)
Dolphin Stadium (Slough Town)
Wexham Park (Slough Town)
Feethams (Darlington)

Also Old Wembley.

Bootham Crescent (York) and Griffin Park (Brentford) to be added to the list when those teams finish playing there at the end of the season.

Probably another 10 non league ģrounds at lower levels than the Conference North/South including Ashington, Enfield, Aylesbury United amongst others.

@Horley Chorley, seems like we must have been to a lot of the same games!
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It would seem so, mate.
I first started going to the away games in the 70's and carried on going home and away, until illness put paid to my football trips in 2008.
I'm fine nowadays, but only do the home games, these days.
I got to know many people from those away days, lots have become great friends, and there's those, who's names I don't know, but I always give & get a nod of acknowledgement from, as I and they, remember familiar faces from the decades of away trips, down the years.
 
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