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LEA BRIDGE STADIUM (Former Home of Clapton Orient FC & Lea Bridge Speedway Team)
The skeletal remains of one of the old stadium stands still exist on this site. Orient played here (often nicknamed The Bridge) between 1930 and 1937, however Orient also played at Wembley Stadium and Highbury due to Lea Bridge Stadium being deemed as unsafe for spectators (a complaint over perimeter fencing which meant that pitch invasion frequently occurred). Lea Bridge gates averaged 7000, and in 1936/1937 Orient's match versus Millwall attracted the ground's highest attendance, 20.400. But the club was never happy at the speedway stadium, and in 1937 rode their final move to Brisbane Road, a mile away in Leyton renaming themselves Leyton Orient.
Source: Derelictlondon.com
In 1933 Lea Bridge Stadium was used for filming racing scenes for the movie Britannia of Billingsgate. '