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Main Club Sponsor
Appleby Park.
North Shields Athletic moved to Appleby Park in 1900 and developed the stadium on Hawkey's Lane into one of the finest non league stadiums in the country. The 1969 Amateur Cup Final Programme notes that "Appleby Park is one of the finest grounds in amateur soccer with accommodation for 15,000, dressing-rooms of Football League standard, and a thriving social club."
The stadium was blighted with subsidene problems having been build on the site of a former colliery and it wasn't uncommon for holes to appear in the pitch, one of which developed duting the course of a game and resulted in a home player ending up waist high in a hole!
The stadium was eventually sold to developers in 1992 after the club encountered financial difficulties and by 1993 the stadium was replaced by new housing. The site is now replaced with a street named after the old stadium, Appleby Park.
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