I think it's a delightful ground, run down, yes. But also cared for, if that's not too much of a contradiction. The barrel roofed stand isn't the best for sightlines, but I love the actual design of it.
![](http://lh6.ggpht.com/_MtVN1YLXLZs/Ssz7mVCYBUI/AAAAAAAAAa0/09A8KkYnoEQ/s400/PICT1343.jpg)
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As you walk down the drive to the ground the clubhouse is on the right.
![](http://lh3.ggpht.com/_MtVN1YLXLZs/SsyBgdx1qLI/AAAAAAAAAZk/IXzpDvki-EI/s400/PICT1330.jpg)
This is the entrance to the bar, which is set outside the ground.
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If you walk straight past the clubhouse then these turnstiles are to the left.
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A sign is up from the previous season, prices changed, not the year.
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This is the other side of the turnstile block.
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Outside is a 'zero tolerance' policy. Not implemented, I hasten to add!
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Through the gates, and to our left is is this covered terrace behind the goal.
![](http://lh5.ggpht.com/_MtVN1YLXLZs/Ss5dVzOPkUI/AAAAAAAAAec/REaihMtqSl0/s400/PICT1390.jpg)
Prior to kick off there was a silence for a Ramsgate stalwart, who had passed away.
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The roof is quite new, I'm sure when I first visited here, only a few years ago, this was an open end.
![](http://lh6.ggpht.com/_MtVN1YLXLZs/Ssz3sDWNTjI/AAAAAAAAAaY/ARoPVBtyXvo/s400/PICT1336.jpg)
The supporters' sign is atop it.
![](http://lh3.ggpht.com/_MtVN1YLXLZs/Ss5dWOGsuvI/AAAAAAAAAeg/gG3qU9EckVU/s400/PICT1391.jpg)
This is one of our 'not so local' fans Dave....who travels down from the north-west several times a season, when he's not watching Prescot Cables. Here he enjoys local fish 'n' chips. Well you have to...at the seaside!
![](http://lh3.ggpht.com/_MtVN1YLXLZs/Ssz3r1urE3I/AAAAAAAAAaU/p0f-ta81fhY/s400/PICT1335.jpg)
From behind the goal we see it's open down one side.
![](http://lh5.ggpht.com/_MtVN1YLXLZs/Ssz3sZCfVQI/AAAAAAAAAac/Pp9Bkao_lic/s400/PICT1337.jpg)
With the stand running down the left hand touchline.
![](http://lh5.ggpht.com/_MtVN1YLXLZs/Ssz7lzWBFmI/AAAAAAAAAas/qtvXNDp9Rfk/s400/PICT1341.jpg)
The cover continues to the corner, where the terracing curves round.
![](http://lh5.ggpht.com/_MtVN1YLXLZs/Ssz7mBsQO7I/AAAAAAAAAaw/IgdPto4xPw8/s400/PICT1342.jpg)
Here we see it from the reverse angle.
![](http://lh6.ggpht.com/_MtVN1YLXLZs/Ssz_hKjd-iI/AAAAAAAAAa8/hMSEmB5WNH0/s400/PICT1344.jpg)
This building is in the corner, which is their boardroom.
![](http://lh3.ggpht.com/_MtVN1YLXLZs/Ssz_hNnebVI/AAAAAAAAAbA/H-THSWjel-g/s400/PICT1345.jpg)
Down the touchline, stand side.
![](http://lh6.ggpht.com/_MtVN1YLXLZs/Ssz_hpnfycI/AAAAAAAAAbE/jCjPFQidet8/s400/PICT1346.jpg)
Open terracing goes up to the covered stand. The red shed on the left is their club shop, worth a visit to Ramsgate for that alone, it's excellent. Full of old programmes, books, as well as club souvenirs.
![](http://lh6.ggpht.com/_MtVN1YLXLZs/Ssz_hy1uOuI/AAAAAAAAAbI/CqWRIFnZ-Go/s400/PICT1347.jpg)
Here's a shot of it, right into the sun.
![](http://lh3.ggpht.com/_MtVN1YLXLZs/Ssz_iKDKa5I/AAAAAAAAAbM/KE8F-6WCwKo/s400/PICT1348.jpg)
Now we reach the lovely old cover.
![](http://lh4.ggpht.com/_MtVN1YLXLZs/Ss0EUkh0U1I/AAAAAAAAAbU/3UzlVwTnYlo/s400/PICT1349.jpg)
From this side we look back behind the goal.
![](http://lh3.ggpht.com/_MtVN1YLXLZs/Ss0EU9caZYI/AAAAAAAAAbY/65fHfUIk67U/s400/PICT1351.jpg)
Now under the cover, there is a tea bar at this end of it.
![](http://lh3.ggpht.com/_MtVN1YLXLZs/Ss0EVhl7bFI/AAAAAAAAAbg/mvmhYXVGrSc/s400/PICT1353.jpg)
Moving onwards we observe the bench seating down the stand.
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From under here another glance back behind the goal.
![](http://lh6.ggpht.com/_MtVN1YLXLZs/Ss0EV6u99nI/AAAAAAAAAbk/j5_ddNqOYnY/s400/PICT1354.jpg)
Almost at the halfway line, we look over the dugout, across the pitch, and see the cover down the far end for the first time.
![](http://lh5.ggpht.com/_MtVN1YLXLZs/Ss0J-H2XwKI/AAAAAAAAAbs/voIWZsuiJOM/s400/PICT1356.jpg)
The dugouts may be fairly modern, but they are old fashioned traditional sunken.
![](http://lh5.ggpht.com/_MtVN1YLXLZs/Ss0aQGqH4UI/AAAAAAAAAdA/gWGMvdlnW4Q/s400/PICT1376.jpg)
Sitting down in them after the match this is the view from them, looking left, to the end we haven't got to yet.
![](http://lh5.ggpht.com/_MtVN1YLXLZs/Ss0aQvrJdiI/AAAAAAAAAdE/K_dmc9aXjB0/s400/PICT1377.jpg)
And to the right, where we've come from.
![](http://lh6.ggpht.com/_MtVN1YLXLZs/Ss0eKfRT4_I/AAAAAAAAAdM/r6bWPM7-Wdc/s400/PICT1378.jpg)
Back on the spectator side, we see some plastic seats toward the middle section.
![](http://lh4.ggpht.com/_MtVN1YLXLZs/Ss0J-olMq8I/AAAAAAAAAbw/FvOsRpRlv30/s400/PICT1357.jpg)
These are actually the 'posh' seats, for officials of both clubs.
![](http://lh3.ggpht.com/_MtVN1YLXLZs/Ss0aP-VWEkI/AAAAAAAAAc8/kYrmaKtI_hM/s400/PICT1375.jpg)
Going past them, we are getting closer to the next end.
![](http://lh5.ggpht.com/_MtVN1YLXLZs/Ss0J-_folII/AAAAAAAAAb0/f4vInZMzM6A/s400/PICT1359.jpg)
Here we look back to the centre of the stand.
![](http://lh5.ggpht.com/_MtVN1YLXLZs/Ss0J_PojHaI/AAAAAAAAAb4/_TAfwaoqaqM/s400/PICT1360.jpg)
And the benches further along, then nothing, to make it covered terracing.
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Standing at the front we see how low the dugouts are.
![](http://lh3.ggpht.com/_MtVN1YLXLZs/Ss0R9RCEgOI/AAAAAAAAAcE/w0UNuAi8LGM/s400/PICT1362.jpg)
Similar view, but from pitchside, after the match.
![](http://lh4.ggpht.com/_MtVN1YLXLZs/Ss0aPUuV5FI/AAAAAAAAAc0/Eo0q-qFh8_Q/s400/PICT1373.jpg)
Almost behind the goal now.
![](http://lh4.ggpht.com/_MtVN1YLXLZs/Ss0R-a31yFI/AAAAAAAAAcI/Cl8iehhLkik/s400/PICT1364.jpg)
The terrace has a bit of a curve at this end.
![](http://lh6.ggpht.com/_MtVN1YLXLZs/Ss0R-6c5euI/AAAAAAAAAcM/wXCzddv-Tsc/s400/PICT1365.jpg)
With a hoarding for a greyhound stadium from another Isthmian One South town on the wall!
![](http://lh3.ggpht.com/_MtVN1YLXLZs/Ss0eLEYNhCI/AAAAAAAAAdU/01bYulkubyg/s400/PICT1380.jpg)
This is the cover at this end, from over the barrier.
![](http://lh4.ggpht.com/_MtVN1YLXLZs/Ss0eK3ojCRI/AAAAAAAAAdQ/dfN8gcukZlQ/s400/PICT1379.jpg)
Planes fly over, being not far from Manston.
![](http://lh5.ggpht.com/_MtVN1YLXLZs/Ss0aPhA9xTI/AAAAAAAAAc4/__Z4jMIq1pM/s400/PICT1374.jpg)
Back at the corner, we look across the pitch.
![](http://lh3.ggpht.com/_MtVN1YLXLZs/Ss0R--7enPI/AAAAAAAAAcQ/CX0IXykUgHg/s400/PICT1366.jpg)
The club have their own corner flags.
![](http://lh6.ggpht.com/_MtVN1YLXLZs/Ss0WXDfYp0I/AAAAAAAAAcs/OF4e-85IGn4/s400/PICT1372.jpg)
The stand, from behind the goal.
![](http://lh3.ggpht.com/_MtVN1YLXLZs/Ss0R_ZmUnAI/AAAAAAAAAcU/vP82FnsU9d4/s400/PICT1367.jpg)
Here we see the covered part of this end.
![](http://lh4.ggpht.com/_MtVN1YLXLZs/Ss0WVUQx0RI/AAAAAAAAAcc/VQtymYIlJOo/s400/PICT1368.jpg)
Behind the goal we look down the pitch.
![](http://lh3.ggpht.com/_MtVN1YLXLZs/Ss0WWef4M1I/AAAAAAAAAcg/y8nTL059H8M/s400/PICT1369.jpg)
And to our right, at the stand, again.
![](http://lh3.ggpht.com/_MtVN1YLXLZs/Ss0WWuYPqVI/AAAAAAAAAck/-wXMIYMOekE/s400/PICT1370.jpg)
Past the roof, the terrace continues to the corner.
![](http://lh6.ggpht.com/_MtVN1YLXLZs/Ss0WWyetXqI/AAAAAAAAAco/R8trU4Vgjww/s400/PICT1371.jpg)
Here we see the open side.
![](http://lh3.ggpht.com/_MtVN1YLXLZs/Ss0eLWogeDI/AAAAAAAAAdY/1OabILw9RPk/s400/PICT1381.jpg)
A look over our shoulder, back to this covered end, before we move on.
![](http://lh5.ggpht.com/_MtVN1YLXLZs/Ss0itgV9w6I/AAAAAAAAAdk/KvGTedz09Fg/s400/PICT1383.jpg)
No terracing down this side, just open hard standing.
![](http://lh5.ggpht.com/_MtVN1YLXLZs/Ss0eL1tAzlI/AAAAAAAAAdc/IyS-WkLqYF8/s400/PICT1382.jpg)
From this side, we look across the pitch.
![](http://lh3.ggpht.com/_MtVN1YLXLZs/Ss0it84CnZI/AAAAAAAAAdo/1ujMjw4-dxY/s400/PICT1384.jpg)
Practice goals set back, but blocking your view, if you chose to stand here!
![](http://lh3.ggpht.com/_MtVN1YLXLZs/Ss0iuItBeEI/AAAAAAAAAds/Ld1zHpv9a6Y/s400/PICT1385.jpg)
Moving along, we're getting closer to the end where we began.
![](http://lh3.ggpht.com/_MtVN1YLXLZs/Ss0iukVT1TI/AAAAAAAAAdw/3QVseecutlE/s400/PICT1386.jpg)
On the fence along this side were a number of advertising panels. This one caught my eye, & made me smile.
![](http://lh3.ggpht.com/_MtVN1YLXLZs/Ss0iuxgyOEI/AAAAAAAAAd0/3KQzixVwVEg/s400/PICT1387.jpg)
And here we are, back behind the goal, where we started at the turnstiles.
![](http://lh4.ggpht.com/_MtVN1YLXLZs/Ss5dVCP1EGI/AAAAAAAAAeU/kPDZx4vhpdQ/s400/PICT1388.jpg)