Notts County

Notts County Football Club was formed in 1862 and spent the first fifty or so years of its existence playing its matches at Trent Bridge, the home of Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club. As you’d expect at such a place, cricket took priority over football and Notts County were sometimes forced to play their fixtures elsewhere. The Football League decided this wasn’t acceptable and demanded that County either figure out a deal with the cricket club or else find a new ground to play their fixtures in. In 1910 they found some ground opposite Trent Bridge that was ideal for a new stadium, so they leased the area from Nottingham City Council and began to build a new ground. Part of their new home was a temporary stand that had been at Trent Bridge, and it was literally floated across the river to be erected at the stadium that would become known as Meadow Lane.