Plough Lane Reynolds. The six individual blocks that comprise the development were also named after former players, managers and a chairman: Bassett House, Batsford House, Cork House, Lawrie House, Reed House and Stannard House. Plough Lane Plough Lane was a football stadium in Wimbledon, south west London. For nearly eighty years it was the home ground of Wimbledon Football Club, from September 1912 until May 1991, when the club moved their first team home matches to Selhurst Park as part of a groundshare agreement with Crystal Palace. Both clubs' reserve teams then used Plough Lane as their home ground until 1998, when
Crystal Palace F.C. (1861) Crystal Palace F.C. (1861) Crystal Palace F.C. was a short-lived amateur football club who were formed in 1861 and became founder members of the Football Association in 1863. The club disbanded and disappeared from historical records around 1876. The club was formed in 1861 by the Crystal Palace Company which owned the Crystal Palace Exhibition building. It had been lobbied by existing members of their Cricket Club to provide a continuation of sporting activities during the winter months. All of the football club’s management-committee and most of its original players were previously members of the Crystal Palace Cricket Club, which