Hornchurch share their Bridge Avenue ground with Havering Athletics Club, and the overriding impression is of a modest athletics stadium that had been rapidly upgraded to keep pace with the Urchins’ meteoric rise up the Pyramid in recent years ... a progression abruptly halted by the financial crisis of benefactor Karl Williams in 2005, that ultimately led to the club’s liquidation, reformation and demotion from Conference South to the Essex Senior League.

Football supporters have a natural antipathy to grounds surrounded by running tracks. However, although one is unable to get near to the action, a good view can still be obtained if there is a stand of sufficient elevation, as at Newport County or Grantham Town for example. Sadly, this is not the case at Hornchurch.