Old sports grounds

[daggers]

The Echo stated the other day that Aigburth Cricket Club [the one near St Michael's Station, not Liverpool CC] is under threat of housing development. This made me think of other sports grounds which have been lost within my time and area, and others can, I am sure, add plenty more:

Co-operative Wholesale Society, Grassendale Road
Lewis's and Bon Marche, Ranelagh Drive, Grassendale [It had never occurred to me until now that this area was probably given its name, Ranelagh Park, Ranelagh Drive North & South, because the the link to the city store in Ranelagh Street]
George Henry Lee's, Bradstones, Sandfield Park.
Liverpool Institute, Mersey Road.
Crawford's Biscuits, Sandown Hall
Garston CC, The Avenue
South Liverpool FC, Holly Park
Mersey Docks & Harbour Board, Fulwood Road
Elder Dempsters, Barkhill Road
Penny Lane, beside Dovedale Towers - whose was it? J. Lyons? Now a 'village green'
A football pitch in Bank's Road, Garston - whose?
Dunlops, Speke

Probably many more were around.... Luckily many remain, but for how long?

Daggers

[dickiesam]

Ah yes! The bulldozer of 'progress'.

[MaryA]

I have an idea there was one on Dunningsbridge Road but can't remember the name of the company, could be what is now Bootle Golf Course.

[steveflan]

Do Jacobs Biscuits still have a football pitch?

Have the football fields on Townsend Avenue closed?

[alex69]

Mary A

Littlewoods had a sports ground at the corner of Park Lane and Dunnings Bridge Road. As a kid I often used to marvel at how flat the pitch was and how perfectly the grass was cut. Not been down there for yonks. looking on Google street map it is now a "Goals" 5-a-side centre.

Alex

[MaryA]

Love how one person can drop a hint and another picks it up with their memories.