Abandoned Football Ground of Leyton FC
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- Remembering Leyton F.C in East London - one of the oldest football clubs in London whose ground now stands derelict.
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Just a reminder to cherish those local clubs that you may have. Go and support them whenever you can
And those local players.
I've scored a goal at this ground, playing for Barclays works team in about 1995. Halycon days!
My dad Doug Digby was a life member been going over there and away for 55 years,and when the restuarant was built they named one of the rooms the digby suite..which was a nice touch,i myself went over there on and off in the seventies to watch the games,then late seventies and early eighties i was more on the social side i.e darts team member plus pool on a friday and saturday,sunday afternoon etc etc...the bar was run by steve and jan.steve was a ex player..stevie goodwyn.my dad passed away in 2002 just as well as he would of gone mental with the club's decline.p.s me and my wife had our wedding reception there in 1986...cheers steve,and cheers dad as he took care of the drinks.
@k thanks
My grandad played the 1952 cup game for Layton v Walthamstow amateur that payed for the pitch . Sad to see it like that 🥰
Looking into finding out a way to turn this back into a stadium. Who wants to help
Yes please I will help😁
Would love to help
I am an Os, Orient (now Leyton Orient again) fan, as a kid in the late 60's and 70s growing up in East London, my grandad used to take me to Brisbane Rd. If the Orient were away we would often go to see Leyton WIngate Fc on Lea Bridge Rd as my Grandad lived just a short walk over the road. Also my mates parents ran the Hare & Hounds pub next door to the ground and I remember watching the game from the toilet roof next door by climbing out of his bedroom window.
Shame to see the old club gone and ground lying abandoned!
My uncle mick and Auntie Brenda used to run the Hare & Hounds for a couple of years during the 80s. I had some good times in there as a kid.
Played in the South West essex intermediate Cup final for eastway celtic against Walden sports 3 1
before the E10/ Starlight was built there was a Morris Minor garage on that site.
Really sad! I was an avid Leyton-Wingate supporter between 1984-86 having moved into the area from Manchester. Absolutely loved the club and all the people associated with it and was fortunate enough to see them win promotion as well as go all the way to the FA Cup 1st Round proper when 500 fans went to see us play at Swansea City. Although I've watched Salford City for many years now - having returned back to my native North West - I'll never ever forget the fantastic times I had living in Walthamstow but supporting Leyton - not the Avenue!!
If you ever go to London Visit Wingate & Finchley. When Wingate and Leyton split, Wingate joined Finchley fc and they are now in the 7th division
jerry did you have a son called colin ??
@@robertdigby3596 Not my real name but I'm sure I remember your dad when I was there!
it was only Leyton Wingate til 1992 when the 2 clubs parted and become single entities again
That was my Dads team, he was a big supporter of LW. He took me and my brothers there every game.....Although not a football man myself i have fond memories of playng under the main stand with other kids and going in the clubhouse. RIP
what was the attendances like for home games ?
Lovely video John. So sad to see clubs like this disappear when they have so much history attached to them.
Very sad,i remember going there with Macclesfield for a FA Trophy game back in 1988,was a great day out also remember been in the Hare And Hounds pub before the game, lovely pub and lovely club such a shame its fallen victim along with other abandoned grounds because of money..RIP Leyton Wingate
A new petition is now going around to save this club . Leyton has definitely changed over the past 10 years . But has built a character which charters for artists musicians and athletes . Recent openings of Patchworks (Blondies) / Ive Farm ( football/ hockey pitches) / Revamped Hare & Hounds / Jubilee park reconstruction / Hackney Marshes clean up . The list continues ! This club can survive and add to this . As a football enthusiast and football coach and local parent I am behind any petition and launch to rebuild this. If it starts with MP discussions general word of mouth , anything to keep hope for this I will be here to support it . Let’s bring this club back to where it belongs 🙏🏻💪🏻⚽️
Watched many many games on a Sunday morning here in the early to mid 1970s, three or four of us attended the games regularly. Shame to see the ground like it is now, fond memories of getting the ball out of the ditch behind the goal on the left as you look onto the Pitch....happy days as a 12-14 year old
thanks for sharing that Chris. I went back there today and spent longer looking around. Very sad sight indeed. About 50 yards up the road I got chatting to fella who actually played for Leyton FC on loan for a few months
Thank you - this is very good.
The club that Leyton Wingate developed from once played at Leyton Stadium, where Leyton Orient now play, they have a wonderful history and were once one of the leading English Amateur Clubs along with such as Walthamstow Avenue, Corinthian Casuals, both from "down south" and the London Area, another that comes to mind is Blyth Spartans from the North East of England.
In the Wikipedia article it reports claims to be "the second oldest existing club in Greater London, after Cray Wanderers' and to have formed in 1868.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leyton_F.C.
Blyth Spartans were not an amateur club. They have been a semi -professional outfit for the vast majority of their lifetime
Thanks for the correction I had assumed them to have always been an amateur club as that was how I remembered them in their "middle years" - but I now realise the northern amateur club I was in fact thinking about was Bishop Auckland, but again I know of them from the 60s & 70s era - so possibly they may also have been professional in earlier years.
I realise that in fact association football leagues were particularly strong in the north of England where of course the Football League was also strong from the outset.
So my mistake - Bishop Auckland was my northern club I had in mind - now I await further correcting responses - maybe.
blythspirit.wordpress.com/2015/07/24/10-titles-2450-goals-19-managers-the-northern-league-years/
The guy in the clip. Rolf Harris aged 25.
😂
Think I scored last goal for Leyton against Aylesbury Town, we won’ 1-0. I’m sure Kevin Moran was manager, memory starting to fade 😕
There's a covenant on the ground meaning it has to be used for sporting activity. But it's clearly not being enforced.
Thanks for that info - be good to raise this with the council
John Rogers yes good idea. should get it publicised as there's surely plenty of people who'd get involved
a covenant can't be a positive obligation
Very interesting video. I used to go to the this ground week in, week out in the early 1980's to watch Leyton Wingate and the Hackney & Leyton Sunday League (I was the ballboy!). It brings back lots of memories.I remember the Morris Minor garage and of course the Hare and Hounds.Speaking to a gentleman at a Dulwich Hamlet match last season, I heard they had fallen on hardtimes.
Thanks for sharing that Adam. Yes very hard times but since the video there is a campaign now to save the ground from being built on and there is also some talk of trying to revive the team
That's interesting news. Do you have a link to anymore information?
Really sad to see this, played here a few times including successive cup finals in 1977 and 1978 , was lovely little ground, fond memories .🥲
Lovely guy. I was looking at this because my dad (Johnny Goddard) played for Leyton FC in the 1952 Amateur Cup Wembley final and I'm making an album for my family of some memorabilia. He got a runners up medal, which we still have. John would it be ok if I took a couple of still shots of the ground from your video here, to include in my album? Thanks, Angela Goddard.
no problem Angela - there are some better photos on my blog thelostbyway.com/2015/07/the-remains-of-leyton-fc.html
and also some more recent shots in this video ruclips.net/video/swlx14-ItV0/видео.html
It is a very historic ground with football having been played there since the 1870s. The first F A cup winners, Wanderers played some of their games there. I watched Leyton in the 1960s particularly the mid 1960s when they had a very good side. All very sad.
Orient fan, sad to see this, embarrassed to say I don't really know much about Leyton FC.
So sad to see use to go over there saturday+sunday back in the sixty
I played one game here, I had an absolutely stinker 😂😂😂
is there access to the ground,for photos??
Officially no but they seem to use it as a carpark now so the gates are often open and you can just wander in
thank you....
It's literally a car park now and the grass has become mud and slowly is solidifying. Terrible to see that, probably will be removed soon and changed.
How would I get in touch with who owns the ground?
That's a good question Chris - I think the people who own the venue on Lea Bridge Road in front of the ground are the owners
Is it still up
I think so Daniel
Are these sports grounds open to public? I wanted to do a photography university project abt it
Anyone know who owns the ground ?
With all the millions and millions of Pounds the footballers make you would think they would get together and keep this club going? Shameful really.
They did not pay the players and they pretty much lost all their games. He was paid too much and there was ongoing arguments
as the manager was to blame. I have shared their last game before this video.
The Asian restaurant next door uses it as a makeshift parking area
me and a couple of mates went for trials there in 2010 b4 they dissolved as a bid to try and keep them up but we wernt fit enough lol
Hackney and Leyton league cup final 1987, Richmond 1 mg sports 0, I scored the winning goal 😉 anyone remember it ?
Great story. would to incredible to reclaim it for sport and not another block of flats. Some interesting facts and links at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leyton_F.C. . Community effort to restart the club?
that would be brilliant - perhaps a campaign?
The way things are going with Travis and ling in charge Leyton Orient might not be to far off this in the coming years sadly badly run by the board disgrace
Leyton FC video footage:ruclips.net/video/MI4pBsgDeYk/видео.html
great stuff - thanks for sharing
John Rogers and is anyone allowed to just wander inside the place and how do you get inside is their a way?
Someone wanted the area,bullied or bent councillors as like now redevelooment it's not a benifet to the neighbourhood. Indeed missed spelt. Shame a 60yr ol man wernt explaining. 1000 a month's rent hike,shops high st all went to the wall... That's all for more pit holes and traffic lights wow so sad..
My uncle, a fan of non-league football, has created an FB page to raise awareness to the revival of Leyton FC. It's called, "Bring back Leyton FC": facebook.com/BringBackLeytonFC
What is the exact location of this stadium?
Hi Jonathan - it's on Lea Bridge Road near the Hare and Hounds pub
Sat in East London I played for them for 3 season before they closed due to the chairman money laundering money 💰
If I was a millionaire I’d fix this 😔
i never knkw about this team
Sorry Steve, but I think you're looking back with rose tinted specs. No one supported the Leyton founded in 1997. They had by far the lowest support levels in their level of football. No one liked them, and were a horrible club.
The plaque you mention was stolen from Leyton Pennant F.C.. Costas broke in and stole it from their ground.
@Kev M yeah he was a f---king crook
I think John Sitton managed the team once.
+MrLazyhead yes indeed, after he left the Orient
Don't worry it will be a good space foe a mosque