Lower Mead

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Lower Mead was a football stadium in Harrow, North West London. It was the home ground of Wealdstone Football Club for nearly 70 years from 1922 until 1991, after which it was demolished. Construction of the stadium was completed in time for the start of the 1922/23 season, the club having previously played at a number of local grounds. Located on Station Road, Harrow, at the northern end of Harrow town centre and just south of the district of Wealdstone, the stadium was situated behind a row of shops and a cinema (known today as the Safari Cinema), and was flanked along its northern perimeter by residential flats built in High Mead in the mid-1930s. The record crowd attendance at Lower Mead was 13,504 on 5th March 1949 for a FA Amateur Cup 4th Round Replay versus Leytonstone F.C. The stadium consisted of a small main stand to the south, purchased in 1928 from Summerstown F.C.'s ground in Earlsfield, which contained the players' and officials' dressing rooms and was the only seated part of the stadium, and which straddled the half-way line, with uncovered terracing to either side of it. To the west was a covered terracing known as the Elmslie End, named in honour of a club official. Uncovered terracing ran the entire length of the pitch on the north side, created just after the second world war when the land behind it was sold for housing. To the east was a narrow covered terr

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