#regents canal

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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 Opens His Middle Ground — St John's Wood, May 1809

n/a

1809-05-08

In May 1809 Thomas Lord, frustrated by his landlord Mr Portman's plan to raise the rent on his original Dorset Fields ground, opened a second ground at the North Bank in St John's Wood. The Middle Ground, leased from the Eyre family for eighty years, hosted St John's Wood Cricket Club through 1809-13 but was barely used by the MCC, who continued to play at the Old Ground until the 1810 lease expiry. Requisitioned in 1813 for the cutting of the Regent's Canal, the Middle Ground was abandoned and Lord moved his turf to a third site — the present Lord's — in 1814.

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