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Where is the oldest football stand in Norfolk and the world?

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From a football grandstand to a picture of wheelbarrow and from a tower to a urinal we find Norfolk landmarks which are the oldest in the county, country or even the world
FOOTBALL STAND
The grandstand at Great Yarmouth Town Football Club is the oldest surviving football stand in the world. The stand, opened in 1892 is a grand 129 years old.
However, the first sport to be viewed from the stand was not football but athletics and cycling. The grade-II listed Wellesley Road ground was opened in 1888, with cycle races on a cinder track, watched by a crowd of 3,000. The first football match came two years later and Great Yarmouth Town moved in exactly 120 years ago. Record attendance was back in 1953 when almost 9,000 people watched the Bloaters win 1-0 against Crystal Palace in the first round of the FA Cup. Extra terracing was provided in the ....

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Where is the oldest football stand in Norfolk and the world?

Where is the oldest football stand in Norfolk and the world?
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