This ground was a pleasant surprise, it has two pitches, but both were grass. and both had half decent spectator facilities.
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This is the main club buildings, from out on the road. They look very new, though not being a builder myself I am not sure if it a new construction, or a renovation.
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Here we see the building from inside. The actual entrance is just past the building, but I entered the ground through a gap in the dnece here, left open as there is buidling work going on in the tennis club next door.
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Rather than head up to the main building we are going to head round the other way, in an anti-clockwise direction. Behind this goal it is railed off, but you clearly can't stand behind it, due to the proximity of the tennis club.
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From behind the goal we look acorss to the main building, which we can see has a balcony along it.
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Down this side we see the dugouts, and some sort of terracing behind them.
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Here is a close up of one of the dugouts.
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A nice stretch of shallow terracing, with a row of old benches at the back.
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At the halfway line we look directly across the pitch.
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Now behind the goal, we see there is hard standing which is behind both goals! Rather than go down here, we are going to continue straight along.
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We now look over the second pitch, where we can see some sort of covered stand on the far side.
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But down the side we're on it's hard standing and railed off, heading towards the dugouts.
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Though there are also a few benches.
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This is one of the dugouts.
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It's open at the far end, not even railed off, with a rough training area behind it.
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From this goal we look over to the covered stand.
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down the side it's railed off again, with a path, that turns behind the stand.
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It's rather run down, but at least it's still standing!
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Just! some of the back panels have gone, and there's only the odd old bench in it.
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With one or two more dumped at the other end.
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Beyond the stand is more hard standing and railings.
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Now we're back to the 'double end'.
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And headed towards the main building at last.
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In front of it is another row of benching, similar to those on the far side of this, I would guess, the main pitch.
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This is the view across the pitch, from up on the first floor level balcony.
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You can see how recent the work on the building is, as there are still workmen at the far end! That is the end where we started our tour from.
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In the other direction we see over to the second pitch, to conclude our non-matchday visit here.
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