Billingham Synthonia Football Club played on the Central Avenue ground for 60 years until the end of the 2016/17 season, they then moved to play at the Norton ground. As you can see the Central Avenue ground has suffered badly in the last year. A sad sight for Northern League football fans like myself.
Photograph and details courtesy of Martin Birtle.
What a scandalous waste of such a fantastic stadium. It would have made a good Memorial to ICI who saved Teesside in the 1920’s.
My wife ran with Joy Grievson in the 1960s, still has the program
Joy Grievson was a good athlete who ran for Darlington.
Remember training there as a youngster, running up and down the steps in that stand, damn near killed me!
It is a crying shame the area should lose such a good stadium.