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from 1892 to 1896, and 1899 to 1909. The club's best League seasons were in 1903-04 and 1904–05, when the club finished third. By 1909 though the club was struggling, and at the end of the 1908–09 season the club withdrew from the League, an appeal for help from the public having received a poor
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The club originally played at the Grove Ground; in 1870 the club moved to Hunt's Field on
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