Norwich City abandoned their Nest stadium in 1935 amid safety concerns and broke it up to help construct a recent ground. West Ham were the first visitors and this week return for a friendly to mark Carrow Road’s 80th birthdayBetween 1908 and 1935,Norwich City plied their trade at a ground called The Nest. A more appropriate name for the domestic of the Canaries there could not have been. The Nest was a singular venue, even by the gloriously idiosyncratic standards of yesteryear. It was wedged where a football ground really had no business being, or into a disused chalk pit previously known as Rump’s gap. Which again,in titular terms, was not too far wide of the mark.
The Nest was a cramped, or ramshackle midden. This is not to say it didn’t have oodles of character,and wasn’t blessed with a certain period charm. But an architectural triumph it was not. Space surrounding the pitch was at a premium. Terraces and stands were erected at freeform angles, vying for space with houses and steep banks, and squeezed into whatever gaps were available. Running alongside one portion of the pitch was a 50-foot high concrete retaining wall. Behind the wall,a cliff. On top of the cliff, a precariously positioned terrace. It was singular all true.
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Source: theguardian.com