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Walking along the main coastal road you can see the Football Club badge, above, is based on the town crest.
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Here is a close up of the crest on the pillar.
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The ground is by a municipal multi sports complex.
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We approach the ground across the car park.
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The ground is fully enclosed, & deserted on an early summer Sunday evening, but I found a gate round the other side. The actual entrance is to the left of this building.
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So for the purpose of this tour we're going to start from here. The path into the ground, leading up to the turnstile.
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Here we are at the actual turnstile.
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Here we see it from inside, with a board by it for team changes.
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There is no stand here, just an overhang, with a bench under it. to our right. We will see this part close up later. We are heading in the other direction, clockwise round the pitch.
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First of all we look over the pitch. The ground is very open on three sides. Opposite we see the smart dugouts.
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To our immediate left is hard standing to the corner, and a strange bit of concrete brickwork behind. I'm not sure what it's there for, but I'm sure is used to sit on,albeit a bit low.
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Maybe, from that sign, it's not finished! ;-)
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The hard standing continues behind the goal.
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From behind the goal we look back to the club building, along the side.
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You can imagine it being very cold here on dark midweek nights in the middle of winter.
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From the corner we look over the pitch.
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Down the side some grass, before another stretch of hard standing.
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This continues up to the dugouts.
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Inbetween the two dugouts is a very smart gantry, it looks neat, with the club crest on it, but I don't recall the 'Match of the Day' cameras ever having been here...
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Squeezing past them it's then more hard standing, & then grass to the corner.
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As we turn behind the goal the concrete path returns.
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This stretches all the way along.
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From this end we look over to the left, where the main side of the ground is.
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In the corner is this gate, which was bolted but not locked. Which was lucky for you & me, as that's how I gained access for these snaps!
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The path continues down the side, up to the building, & covered area.
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Before we get to the changing rooms/bar area, there a bit of a 'dumping ground' for old junk set back, by it.
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But on closer inspection it's a bit of a cobbled up 'pub garden' for the bar as well!
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From this angle it doesn't look so bad.
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These low individual seats won't impress any ground graders, I think!
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A tidy sign above the entrance here.
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This bench has it's own special elevated position.
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Jointly dedicated to this local man...
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And a youngster from the club.
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And past this bench we are back where we began.
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Our last snap is of the cover & building from on the pitch.
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