Town Mead Remembered Traditional Geocache
UberJason: Council keep clearing this out so its goodbye.
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This cache is location of the edge of what used to be Town Mead, Crawley Town's home ground until 1997 when they moved to Broadfield Stadium.
Crawley played at Town Mead for 48 season before it was sold to developers and created in the leisure park we see today.
I remember being driving past the area when I was young and one day realising the ground had gone but too young to really remember anything.
If you have your own memories or photos or anything I would love to hear/see them.
See history from the Town Mead era:
They remained in Junior Football until they entered the Sussex County League in 1951. The club then switched to the Metropolitan League in 1956 a competition for both professional and amateur sides. Still retaining their amateur status, Crawley won the Metropolitan League Challenge Cup in 1959.
Crawley adopted professional status in 1962 and joined the Southern League the following year. For the next 20 years Crawley played in the First Division in its various guises, apart from a brief taste of Premier Division football in 1969-70. In 1983-84 Crawley finished as runners-up to RS Southampton and returned to the Premier Division, where they remained until 2003-04.
The club enjoyed cup successes, winning the Sussex Professional Cup in 1970, the Gilbert Rice Floodlight Cup in 1980 and 1984, the Southern Counties Combination Floodlight Cup in 1986, and the Sussex Senior Cup in 1990 and 1991. The Sussex Floodlight Cup was won in three consecutive years from 1991 to 1993 and also again in 1998/9.
This is hopefully the second in a series of old football grounds with Queen Street Remember in Horsham, GC23D3A being the first.
If you would like to add to the series feel free to contact me or jthewlett.
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