Originally a patch of industrial wasteland, located on the north side of Bennett Street, Ardwick FC moved here in 1887. The ground occupied an irregularly shaped site and players initially changed in a nearby public house. The main stand was constructed on the north side of the ground with embankments and terracing displaced at various points, and different angles, around the other three sides. The most bizarre feature could be found in the north east corner of the site. A railway line linking Galloway’s Boiler Works to the Mineral Yard passed between a corner stand and the playing area and clipped off the corner of the rectangular pitch area!