Plough Lane
Floodlights
Ploughing a lonely Furrow
Wimbledon’s former home lies rotting - Colin Peel reports
It was with as much surprise as relief that I found the
former home of Wimbledon still recognisable as a
football ground on a hot Thursday afternoon in
August. This is not a particularly loveable corner of
London, and it's a long way removed from the strawberries and lawn tennis associations of the Wimbledon
name, but it's still London, and I expected to see such a prominent
site as this to be developed with
all the haste of Terry
Gibson in his prime.
Instead, Plough Lane remains
out a blade of grass being cut
serve team game there in April
prospects for gaining entry to this
abandoned
scene
of past glories
looked bleak
when the main
entrance off
Durnsford
Road
was
found to be as
securely locked
as the Dons'
1988 Cup Final
defence. Further down the
road, however,
right by the
traffic lights
with Plough
Lane, a mansized gap in a
tall wooden
fence
appeared. The
ground was
ours for the
taking,
and
after a precauGroundtastic
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