epw042089 ENGLAND (1933). The Lea Bridge Road football stadium and speedway track, Lea Bridge, 1933

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Title [EPW042089] The Lea Bridge Road football stadium and speedway track, Lea Bridge, 1933
Reference EPW042089
Date June-1933
Link
Place name LEA BRIDGE
Parish
District
Country ENGLAND
Easting / Northing 536018, 187112
Longitude / Latitude -0.037335965690416, 51.565980365876
National Grid Reference TQ360871

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Clapton Orient likely playing here at the time, according to Freddie Brown later it was Leyton Amateurs http://www.defunctspeedway.co.uk/Lea%20Bridge.htm

Dank
Monday 12th of July 2021 08:03:24 PM
Old maps tell us these may well have been changing rooms for those using the marsh for sports.

Dank
Monday 12th of July 2021 08:02:24 PM
According to one Freddie Brown, Gordon Harker's 1933 film Britannia of Billingsgate was filmed here: Watch the film for free on the BFA website https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-britannia-of-billingsgate-1933-online

Dank
Monday 12th of July 2021 08:01:32 PM
Part of the this grandstand is still standing at the end of Rigg Approach. Further details can be found at the defunct speedway website.

MD
Tuesday 20th of October 2020 07:35:28 AM
There's a very good change this structure remains on the Craig Plant site off Rigg Approach.

Dank
Wednesday 1st of January 2020 04:06:39 PM
Lea Flood Relief channel now runs right to left thru this area.

Dank
Thursday 17th of September 2015 11:26:44 AM
Argall Way now runs alongside the railway here.

Dank
Thursday 17th of September 2015 11:25:54 AM
Site of current Lea Valley riding centre.

Dank
Thursday 17th of September 2015 11:24:25 AM
Ex Great Eastern Railway's Lea Bridge station.

John Wass
Saturday 4th of July 2015 03:04:35 PM
LEA BRIDGE STADIUM (Former Home of Clapton Orient FC & Lea Bridge Speedway Team) The skeletal remains of one of the old stadium stands still exist on this site. Orient played here (often nicknamed The Bridge) between 1930 and 1937, however Orient also played at Wembley Stadium and Highbury due to Lea Bridge Stadium being deemed as unsafe for spectators (a complaint over perimeter fencing which meant that pitch invasion frequently occurred). Lea Bridge gates averaged 7000, and in 1936/1937 Orient's match versus Millwall attracted the ground's highest attendance, 20.400. But the club was never happy at the speedway stadium, and in 1937 rode their final move to Brisbane Road, a mile away in Leyton renaming themselves Leyton Orient. Source: Derelictlondon.com In 1933 Lea Bridge Stadium was used for filming racing scenes for the movie Britannia of Billingsgate.

Allen T
Saturday 1st of June 2013 10:00:00 AM
Sad to say current thinking is that the building still standing at Lea Bridge is not the former stand but a later structure on almost exactly the same site. Orient displaced the amateur Leyton FC at Brisbane Road when the Council refused to renew the lease. What is not generally mentioned is that the amateurs opened the 1937-38 season at Lea Bridge so the clubs actually swapped grounds.

gBr
Sunday 7th of May 2017 11:11:19 PM