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2 incidents tagged

Lord's Middle Ground Closes for the Regent's Canal — September 1813

MCC vs Epsom

1813-09-04

On 4-5 September 1813 the MCC played Epsom in the final match at Lord's Middle Ground at North Bank — Thomas Lord's second cricket ground, opened only four years earlier in 1809. The site had been compulsorily purchased for an extension of the Regent's Canal. The closure forced Lord to find a third site, which he duly opened on St John's Wood Road in 1814 — the present Lord's.

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⭐Mild

Thomas Lord Loses His Original Ground — Dorset Square Notice, October 1808

n/a

1808-10-04

On 4 October 1808 the Portman Estate served formal notice on Thomas Lord that his lease on the Dorset Square ground — the original Lord's, opened in 1787 — would not be renewed. The land was wanted for housing. Lord had eight months to find a new ground. He did, and opened the Middle Ground at North Bank in May 1809; but the Dorset Square notice is the moment at which the original Lord's was lost.

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