Church Road will also be reconfigured around the site, cutting into a local recreation ground.

At the fifth light, turn left onto Church Road.

So do the fans, 38,500 of them yesterday, some who camped out along Church Road the evening before.

The name was kept when the club relocated to its present site at Church Road in 1922.

Church Road itself was laid out as a thoroughfare in 1851; until then it had been a footpath.

At the time the area was much more extensive: graves ran beyond the present south wall on the site of Church Road.

There is a playing field for children off Church Road, run by a trust.

In 1944, the lightly used Church Road was closed.

Situated on Church Road is the old fire station which has now become a piano gallery.

In 2006, a property on Church Road was sold for $7.2 million, a record for the area.