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in order to stay in existence. The company handling the sale of Lower Mead then went into liquidation and, after protracted legal proceedings, the club eventually received only a very small percentage of the sum that Tesco had paid for the site. This left the club not only homeless but also
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To commemorate what would have been the centenary of the ground, in 2021 a booklet has been produced by
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