A shame they still call it Flamingo Park. The National Dock Labour Board Stadium has a much better ring to it.
Not sure when it changed name but I remember it as The dock labour board ground in the early 80s when I used to watch a Sunday side (Eltham Hill) play away there against a team called 279.
Popped along to watch Cray lose 0 - 4 to Sheffield FC this afternoon.
Nice pitch and surronding area. Still a lot of work to do tidying up the old pavilion but a good facility. Only £5 a pint!
Well done for them getting their own ground again.
How strange. My son was watching YouTube earlier (something about SE Dons) and they were playing a pre season at Cray. I was just saying to him how much I loved the idea of the pub tables behind the goal lol and here they are popping up on Charltonlife 😀 I've never been to the ground or seen it online before
Popped along to watch Cray lose 0 - 4 to Sheffield FC this afternoon.
Nice pitch and surronding area. Still a lot of work to do tidying up the old pavilion but a good facility. Only £5 a pint!
Well done for them getting their own ground again.
How strange. My son was watching YouTube earlier (something about SE Dons) and they were playing a pre season at Cray. I was just saying to him how much I loved the idea of the pub tables behind the goal lol and here they are popping up on Charltonlife 😀 I've never been to the ground or seen it online before
If only you knew someone who lives a 10 minute walk away! ;-)
Back in the mists of time I used to stroll down the lane with schoolfriends to watch the Wands when they played at Grassmeade. It's taken them so many years to achieve the dream of getting their own ground again; can only wish them all the best.
I need to look through some old boxes, I may still have some old Cray Wanderers trophies etc, my Grandad gave me. Apparently my Great Uncle owned the club in the 50’s/60’s, although I’m also told he had links to the Richardson’s 😳
Looked at Flamingo Park as a wedding venue in the late 90s on a Saturday morning. They’d had a rave the night before that I suspect only finished a couple hours earlier. The windows were all blacked out, there was netting and black sheeting across all the walls, it stunk and it was an absolute bomb site.
Looked at Flamingo Park as a wedding venue in the late 90s on a Saturday morning. They’d had a rave the night before that I suspect only finished a couple hours earlier. The windows were all blacked out, there was netting and black sheeting across all the walls, it stunk and it was an absolute bomb site.
Looked at Flamingo Park as a wedding venue in the late 90s on a Saturday morning. They’d had a rave the night before that I suspect only finished a couple hours earlier. The windows were all blacked out, there was netting and black sheeting across all the walls, it stunk and it was an absolute bomb site.
Visiting my mum up north next month, she may have some items. My Great Uncle was Mick Slater? Something to do with the club, although apparently I met him a few times times before he passed away, I was only a baby. I’m going to take my Son along to a Cray’s match when I’m next in that area, as we owned it once 😂
I asked a developer for Leegate what was affordable, and related it to a graduate staff nurse pay at Lewisham Hospital, who had been spending all their income on rent (therefore virtually no deposit) how affordable their properties would be in relation to mortgage rates currently, and the monthly wage of said nurse. The developer said they would get back to me with an answer.
Agree that it's very rarely "affordable" in the true sense of the word.
Got a few mates with kids in early 20s, born and bred in Lewisham. No affordable option to rent or buy in the area without significant help from bank of mum and dad.
Registered providers of affordable housing now have very little money to buy these properties, and the way that many affordable providers have merged into big organisations mean that they are not interested in owning/managing small developments. MrLargo's definitions are correct, they are nouns, not to be confused with the adjective affordable which could be applied in 1995 to the little house I am happily sitting in now.
House builders always promise affordable housing then cut the percentage of the so called affordable homes. There are plans to develope the north end of Rye Lane were I am and the developer has neigh on cut it by half. Also money for community projects or assets goes by the board as well.
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Nice pitch and surronding area. Still a lot of work to do tidying up the old pavilion but a good facility. Only £5 a pint!
Well done for them getting their own ground again.
The club house did look a bit shabby so maybe they don't want to spend a lot on doing up a facility they plan to demolish.
Millwall, Palace and Spurs XIs all playing there, shame no Charlton but we did help them to calculate their safe capacity (about 2400)
I can barely make the end of bed these days but maybe if we all club together and tally up our distances we might.
Apparently my Great Uncle owned the club in the 50’s/60’s, although I’m also told he had links to the Richardson’s 😳
I’m going to take my Son along to a Cray’s match when I’m next in that area, as we owned it once 😂
LOL
They all say it anyway, but such a term is never defined, it just sounds good.
The developer said they would get back to me with an answer.
Got a few mates with kids in early 20s, born and bred in Lewisham. No affordable option to rent or buy in the area without significant help from bank of mum and dad.
There are plans to develope the north end of Rye Lane were I am and the developer has neigh on cut it by half.
Also money for community projects or assets goes by the board as well.