Belle Vue (Rhyl)

The Corbett Sports Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Rhyl, Wales. It is used mostly for football matches, and has been the home ground of Rhyl F.C. since 1892. The stadium holds 3,000 people, with a seating capacity of 1,720. The stadium has occasionally hosted youth-level international football matches, including an under-16s match between Wales and Scotland.

Stands

The Corbett Sports Stadium has four stands, with three out of the four sides of the ground being covered. The Arriva and Don Spendlove Stand make up the largest stand at the Corbett Sports Stadium, and it is here where the changing rooms and officials' room are housed. Opposite these is the George James Stand which is used to accommodate away supporters when fan segregation is in place. Behind one goal is the NWPS Stand which is all seated, and at the other the Grange Road End, which has an open seating area in the middle and unused terraces to the sides.

George James Stand

The George James Stand runs down one side of the pitch. It accommodates away fans and holds the TV gantry as well as the Police Control Unit.

Belle Vue

Belle Vue means "beautiful view" in French. It may refer to:

Placenames

Sporting

Belle Vue (Doncaster)

Belle Vue was the home of English professional football club Doncaster Rovers from 1922 to 2006. The ground was affectionately called by fans 'Old Belle Vue' or OBV.

History

The ground was opened by Charles E. Sutcliffe from the Football League on Saturday, 26 August 1922. The opposition was Gainsborough Trinity. The initial capacity was for 7,000 spectators, which was extended year-on-year as finances allowed. In 1927 the main stand at Doncaster's former ground in the suburb of Bennetthorpe was jacked up and moved on rollers to Belle Vue to form the family stand, where it remained until 1985 when the tragic events at Bradford City meant that the old wooden structure was deemed unsafe and was demolished.

In 1938 the capacity of Belle Vue was increased to 40,000 and it was in 1948 that the stadium recorded its highest attendance of 37,099 against Hull City, although apocryphal accounts refute this and claim that many more gained entry to the ground by climbing over walls and thus avoided having to pay.

Belle Vue (Bellevue, Tennessee)

Belle Vue is a historic mansion in Bellevue, a suburb of Nashville, Tennessee, USA. It was a Southern plantation with African slaves prior to the American Civil War of 1861-1865. After the war, it remained in the same family until the 1970s.

Location

The mansion is located at 7306 Old Harding Road in Bellevue, a suburb of Nashville in Davidson County, Tennessee.

History

The house stood in this spot as a two-storey log cabin prior to 1818, when Abraham Louis DeMoss, Sr. purchased it. DeMoss lived here with his wife, Elizabeth Newsom DeMoss and their African slaves. When DeMoss departed for New Orleans, Louisiana in 1820, his wife extended the house thanks to slave labor. It was redesigned in the Colonial Revival architectural style, with French wallpaper in the parlor. It was also renamed "Belle Vue", which means "Beautiful View" in French.

After Abraham Louis DeMoss, Sr. died in 1820, his widow lived in the house with her son, Louis DeMoss, Jr. After the latter died, the house was inherited by his son, William E. DeMoss, a physician, who lived here with his mother. After the war, DeMoss married Tabitha Allison in 1871. When she died in 1916, the house was inherited by her nephew, T. A. Baugh. By 1947, Baugh attended electricity to the house and moved in with his wife.

Rhyl

Coordinates: 53°19′16″N 3°28′48″W / 53.321°N 3.480°W / 53.321; -3.480

Rhyl (/rɪl/; Welsh: Y Rhyl, pronounced [ə ˈr̥ɨl]) is a seaside resort town and community in Denbighshire, situated on the north east coast of Wales, at the mouth of the River Clwyd (Welsh: Afon Clwyd). To the west is the suburb of Kinmel Bay, with the resort of Towyn further west, Prestatyn to the east and Rhuddlan to the south. At the 2011 Census, Rhyl had a population of 25,149. The conurbation of Abergele-Rhyl-Prestatyn has a population of over 60,000.

Historically part of Flintshire, Rhyl has long been a popular tourist destination for people from all over Britain.

Once an elegant Victorian resort, there was an influx of people from Liverpool and Manchester after the Second World War changing the face of the town. The area had declined dramatically by 1990, but has since improved due to a series of regeneration projects bringing in major investment. European funding, secured by the Welsh Government, has produced millions for the development of Rhyl's seafront.