Manchester, Old Trafford, Cricket Ground 1897
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Here we see the stand of the Lancashire Cricket Ground, called Old Trafford, as it looked just over a century ago. Fifty years earlier, the Manchester Cricket Club took over the Clifford cricket ground, situated between Chester Road and Talbot Road. The club had to move when the land was needed for the Art Treasure Exhibition, and it moved across the road to Old Trafford in 1857. The first game on this new ground was against the Liverpool Gentlemen, which Manchester won. In 1864 it was decided to form a County Club, and Lancashire County Cricket Club was born. The stand we see here was built in 1884 of red brick at a cost of £9,033 (£2,000 more than the estimate). It was bombed in the Second World War and has now been added to, and modernised out of all recognition.
An extract from Manchester Photographic Memories.
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