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The Final Walk

09 Sunday Jun 2024

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Tuesday 30th April 2024 ko 19:45

West Midlands (Regional) League- Division One

GORNAL ATHLETIC 1 (Lawrence 32)

TIPTON TOWN 3 (Holder 35 Clifton 50 Piggott 85)

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Entry £5

Programme £3 (special commemorative issue)

For many years those in the know venerated Garden Walk. You made sure you visited as the West Midlands finest example of a classic non league ground. I’d made a beeline back in 2011, and was shocked to find out that the club were about to move off. I wanted to visit to say goodbye, and show my wife Robyn the place too, but after the Peninsula Hop I was without a car, the games kept coming and we couldn’t get there. In the end, the new car arrived, and we made for Dudley with just the one game left.

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Crux Roesia

13 Friday Dec 2013

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Tuesday 10th December 2013 ko 19.45

Southern League Division One Central

ROYSTON TOWN 0

KETTERING TOWN 0

Att 234

Entry £8

Programme £2

Badge £2.50

Sometimes its obvious you’re driving to somewhere ancient. The A505 north from the A1 is more or less dead straight, as it follows the Roman road, Icknield Way. When the road intersects with Ermine Street, now the A10, you’re in Royston. The crossing of the two old roads was marked by Roisia’s cross, which eventually was corrupted into Roisia’s Town, then Royston. Sadly all that remains of the cross is the footstone. Continue reading →