Old Show Ground

The Old Show Ground was a football stadium in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England, that was the original home of Scunthorpe United from 1899 until 1988, when they moved to Glanford Park – the first newly constructed Football League stadium since Southend United's Roots Hall 33 years earlier.

When competitive football resumed at the end of the war, Scunthorpe & Lindsey United bought the ground from its owners for £2,980 in December 1919; down from the original £7,000 price they were quoted three months earlier.

[8] With competitive football suspended following the outbreak of World War II and large gatherings banned in coastal communities, the Old Showground hosted arch-rivals Grimsby Town in lieu of their own Blundell Park being unavailable.

Highlights included 15,000 spectators attending Grimsby's 1942 Football League War Cup semi-final against Sunderland.

[10] Scunthorpe's record attendance of 23,935 was set at the Old Show Ground on 30 January 1954 for an FA Cup fourth round tie against Portsmouth.

[12] In March 1958, just before the club's Third Division North title win, the stadium's East Stand was destroyed by fire, with manager Ron Suart only finding out after a group of local children burst into his office to break the news.