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This is Ive Farm sports ground, minus the building of the pavilion which followed later.
It was very much the hub for Leyton's schools sports and also the town's annual inter-school school's sports competitions. This continued through to the 1980's when regrettably attitudes in local government, influenced by politically correct lobbiests, saw competitive sports sidelined "because there must not be any losers". Who could deny that this silliness is partly responsible for children being so inactive and overweight in the modern age?
From the 1990s the site was 'managed' by the Afro-Caribbean organisation which had problems with their funds, became derelict and vandalised, as did their rebuilt pavilion, was then used briefly by a local football club before again becoming a waste ground and left to grow into a wilderness - yet the ash surface running track was still there, and is today underneath it all.
In 2012 the local council intended in secret to encourage the use of the site by a privately owned camping organisation for visitors to the olympics only a mile to the south. After laying in various improvements with tracks and a new bridge over Dagenham Brook, the news broke that the idea had floundered because the company would not meet the council's £1 million asking fee to lease the whole site. With 10 days to go to the start of the olympics on 29th July, this is the latest information available. '
